Lizabeth Zindel's teen novel Girl of the Moment is being adapted for the big screen. It's a comedy about "a girl who lands a once-in-a-lifetime chance to intern for a famous teen starlet, thrusting the heroine into a glamorous and catty inner world of young celebrity"...essentially high school for grown-ups. Apparently there was a survey that discovered that almost fifty percent of teenage girls want to be personal assistants to celebrities like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. They chose this profession over such respectable jobs as being a U.S. senator or a CEO.
My question is who should they cast to play this social-climbing teen. I'm sort of sick of Emma Roberts, since she butchered poor Nancy Drew. Miley Cyrus is way too famous in her own right to pull off a fame-hungry teen, and her sidekick on Hannah Montana, Emily Osment, is a little too obscure at the moment eventhough her brother is Haley Joel (Sixth Sense). Jojo, who has done films like Aquamarine and RV, just turned 18, so she's too old. Miranda Cosgrove from iCarly may be too famous at this point and her sidekick Jennette McCurdy is probably not famous enough. And let's face it, everyone on Zoe 101, including Jamie Lynn Spears, should just lay low. However, Selena Gomez from the Wizards of Waverly Place could be just the right amount of famous to attract viewers without overshadowing the imaginary fame of the celebrity she tails...which brings me to the even harder question of who gets to play the celebrity?
In Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, the beefcake actor is played by Josh Duhamel, Fergie's fiance, and in Sex in the City Samantha's model/actor boyfriend is played by Jason Lewis. The trend here seems to be "really hot non-famous actor." So if they pick some girl who is really beautiful yet obscure with the ability to be a bitch like...who? Got any suggestions?
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