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Chasing Liberty Full Production Notes "Every family has a rebel... even the First Family."
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 Chapter 1: Can't a Girl Get a Little Privacy"Anna Foster hasn't had any breathing room in her life or any time alone," says Mandy Moore with genuine understanding of her character's frustration. "At 18, she's at a transitional stage in her life, a time when every girl starts to look toward her future as a woman and craves some independence and freedom. She wants to be trusted to make her own decisions. It's what all kids have to go through at a certain stage."
Exacerbating Anna's situation is that fact that, as the daughter of a president serving his second term, she's done all her growing up in the public eye, her every move monitored not only by her parents but also by their security staff. It's not every father who can track his daughter's movements by stealth helicopter or have her dates strip-searched at the front door ` and President James Foster, with all the best intentions in the world, will do exactly that and more if it means protecting his only child from whatever evils lurk out in the world, real or imagined. "Anna feels that the time has come for her to take a stand," says Moore. "She's lived her life in a bubble for 18 years and now it's going to pop."
Screenwriting team Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman first got the idea for their story while watching a Stanford basketball game and seeing then-First Daughter and Stanford undergrad Chelsea Clinton in the stands, being hounded by cameras. "She was trying to live the life of a normal college student, despite the fact of who her father was," says Guiley. "You knew that nearby there must have been Secret Service agents watching her every move. We couldn't help but imagine how frustrating it must be for someone to go through his or her teenage years like that. It's not something she asked for, but something she was stuck with." Adds Schneiderman, "we wondered what her life would be like behind the curtain, and that's what the story is about."
Moore, who was 19 during production on Chasing Liberty, finds Anna's situation "entirely relatable." A successful singer and actress at an early age, she has lived in the spotlight since her teens and managed her fame with grace. Her 1999 debut CD, So Real, was released when she was just 15 and went platinum in three months.
"Mandy became a household name at a very early age," notes Chasing Liberty director Andy Cadiff. "She had to cope with celebrity and learn to deal with adults in a professional way while she was still a kid, and yet she has maintained a sunny outlook on life." Calling Moore's participation "dream casting," Cadiff says, "we needed someone who brought a sense of innocence and exuberance to the role, as well as sophistication, and Mandy has all of that in spades."
Producer Andrew A. Kosove, who was particularly impressed with the actress' poignant performance in the recent coming-of-age drama A Walk to Remember, says, "Mandy is enthusiastic and vivacious, but also a young woman who has seen the world and gained the perspective and poise that comes with that, which makes her believable as the First Daughter. Honestly, there is no one else we considered for the part. If we hadn't gotten Mandy we probably wouldn't have made the movie."
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