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A : What was the funniest moment on the set of Cadet Kelly?
Hilary Duff : I'm in the middle of doing this scenewhere I'm practicing to try out for the corps and in the middle of doing a take I throw the gun up in the air. All of the extras in the movie had already been through school so they all knew how to do this stuff really well and I throw it up and it comes down and it clunks me on the head. I fell to the ground and I was like, "Whoa!" It was so embarrassing and everyone was laughing.
Another time we were in the barracks doing this scene and I was cleaning shoes so there was polish all over the floor. The team leaves and my friend is sitting in there with me doing the scene and I was supposed to pick up the gun and start trying to do tricks with it. I threw it up and I caught it, then I was supposed to do this victory dance. I'm doing it and there's shoe polish on the floor and I just completely busted my face. It was so embarrassing. [Laughs]

A : Were you all alone in Toronto?
Hilary Duff : My dialogue coach Troy came with me and my mom, who was pretty ready to leave because my sister was in LA and she missed her. But Troy and I got back to LA and were like, "I miss Toronto!"

A : How are you and your character alike?
Hilary Duff : I don't think we're that much alike because we were but then we weren't. She was a really outgoing person but she was kind of...a little weird and ditzy. Not weird, but different. She went to a performing arts school and she was just a free spirit and kind of out there. But she's a really cool girl, someone that you would become attached to.
It was cool in the movie because she goes to this school being this girl from New York who dressed really cool and was into fashion, and then she has to go to this school where everyone is in uniform and everyone did everything together the same time. She didn't know a place like that.

A : How was it different filming a movie from filming a TV show?
Hilary Duff : Movies take a lot more time to shoot. With the TV show we go really quickly because we have to get a whole show done in a week. In the movies, sometimes you'll only do one scene a day, where as I'm used to doing three scenes a day.

A : What was your favorite scene to shoot?
Hilary Duff : I think probably the one where I had to dangle off the side of a cliff... it was really fun! My dad had fallen while we were hiking so I got to go down this big mountain to go save him. It was really cool!

A : Were you scared doing that kind of a scene?
Hilary Duff : I was scared because to make the scene work they had to put this fake rock on half of the mountain and it was made out of Styrofoam stuff. It was really safe but if I put my foot on it, it would kind of wiggle a little bit. I kept thinking, "It's gonna fall, it's gonna fall!" But after that it was really cool. I got to do it a lot of times. I kept running back up there and they would say, "That was really good." But I'd already be at the top so they'd say, "I guess we'll do it again," because I wanted to keep doing it!