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Press - 2004
Eurotrip Writer/Directors Interview at AICN
Beaks: How does it feel to be the first people to use Harriet the Spy
(Michelle Trachtenberg) as a sex object?
Mandel: First off, I would argue that HARRIET THE SPY was the first movie
to use Harriet the Spy as a sex object.
Schaffer: But we are grateful to be in second place. No, I think it’s a
fantastic thing. “Look, Buffy’s little sister is all grown up!” She’s a
great actress. She was seventeen when she shot it. People always ask us,
“Is Michelle Trachtenberg nude in the movie?” No, she’s *seventeen*! We
don’t want to have to stay in Europe and play in Roman Polanski’s card
game for the rest of our lives, you know? We want to come back and eat
McDonald’s.
(Michelle) came in; she was young, but she’d been acting for seventeen
years. Fantastic. We loved her.
Berg: It was great having someone with that much experience who could
anchor things. You knew that you weren’t going to have to worry about her.
Schaffer: And she was game for everything. There are scenes… it seemed
like any time she had to be in skimpy clothing, it was forty degrees and
drizzling. I felt so bad.
Mandel: It was a difficult part, playing the girl who’s one of the guys.
I’m sure there’ve been a thousand variations, but it’s still difficult
because she’s an attractive young girl, and she has to play that “one of
the guys” thing, and then emerge and get comfortable with herself. It’s a
difficult part; we wanted someone like her, and we got her. In the movie,
the things that we noticed, which I’m not sure other people would notice,
it’s the little stuff. Like when (censored for spoilers), everyone turns
around and smiles. But watch Michelle’s face; she smiles, sees it’s Scott,
and is horrified. That’s why she’s worth a million dollars: the bikini
shots and the reactions.
Berg: I also think, from her side, she had played the little sister for
years on BUFFY. This is a great thing for her. This is why she did the
movie. I mean, I don’t think when she was doing HARRIET THE SPY, she was
thinking, “Someday, I’d like to play a girl in a bikini in a teen movie.”
But it’s great for her, because no one’s going to see her as the little
sister from BUFFY anymore.
Mandel: When she was in HARRIET THE SPY, she was sick of working with so
many naked cocks. There’s like 200 naked cocks (in that movie). I’m sure
she was like, “I’d like to work with only fifty.”
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