NEW YORK (AP) -- America Ferrera got her mangle as a curvy teen in "Real Women Have Curves" and pennyless in to stardom as the poetic "Ugly Betty."
A couple of months prior to the strike ABC array gets to the finale, the singer says she found a small of herself in the blond Viking bombshell she voices in "How to Train Your Dragon," the new DreamWorks Animation movie opening Friday.
Based on Cressida Cowell"s children"s book, the 3-D movie follows the adventures of Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), the scrawny, misfit son of Viking arch and master dragon-slayer Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler).
With no heart for murdering these creatures, Hiccup discovers his skills as a fire breathing monster whisperer and becomes a internal favourite between the villagers and a opposition for extreme classmate Astrid (America Ferrera), additionally his love interest.
"She"s a illusory singer and she has a unequivocally pleasing and absolute voice, and Astrid, the impression that she plays, I think is a good purpose model," DreamWorks" CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said. "We longed for to have somebody who could unequivocally broach the strength and the energy of a good Viking soldier lady and she did it beautifully."
Aboard a lovable Viking boat set up in the heart of Times Square on a chilly, pale morning, the 25-year-old Ferrera talked to The Associated Press about this new tour and the finish of the "Ugly" era.
Excerpts from the interview:
AP: It was lovely to see you as someone so opposite from the singer we have seen before. How was it to fool around the bombshell in this movie?
FERRERA: It was unequivocally fun, you know. They had combined the impression Astrid prior to they expel me so I was usually blissful that they were unequivocally open disposed to cast of characters someone who didn"t see similar to the character. ... It was good to fool around something that wasn"t unequivocally a version of me at all.
AP: This is not your initial charcterised film. Can you discuss it us a bit about this sold experience?
FERRERA: It takes a whilst to get used to being in a college of music and usually carrying you and a microphone and no alternative actors to work off of. ... But once I did, it was pardon to usually be means to fool around around.
AP: As opposite as you and Atrid are, do you find anything of her in you?
FERRERA: Definitely. In the approach that Astrid wants to be the majority appropriate of what she"s you do in any case of either she"s a child or not. You know, I was regularly the lady on the boys" ball team, one of the usually dual girls in the Little League personification baseball, so I think there is a small bit of Astrid in me.
AP: What is the majority absolute summary for you in this movie.
FERRERA: It"s about the Vikings and the dragons and how from the commencement of time all they"ve well known is that they"re each others enemies and they quarrel each alternative and no one unequivocally asks why. And the actuality that Hiccup, the main character, dares to ask since turns the total universe upside down, and they comprehend that what they think is their rivalry is essentially their strongest partner.
AP: The finish of "Ugly Betty" is nearing. How are you feeling about that?
FERRERA: It"s a small unhappy to contend goodbye and also, you know, (I"m) usually regularly beholden that it was a piece of my life, and I"m vehement about the destiny and all the possibilities.
AP: Do you think it is finale as well soon?
FERRERA: I don"t think so. I mean, I think from the commencement I had a regard that we wouldn"t get sufficient time to kind of finish her transformation. ... Could it keep on going? Maybe. But you know, I think we found a unequivocally good sort of assent with the impression in her tour and right away that it is the approach it is it feels similar to it was regularly meant to be this way.
AP: Are you emotionally ready to leave Betty behind?
FERRERA: I don"t know. I think that no make a difference when it happened I was going to be sad, since she"s been a big piece of my life, but yeah, I think that I"ll be excellent (laughs). I"m vehement about the destiny and relocating forward.
AP: Besides celebrity and recognition, what did Betty give you as an singer and as a person?
FERRERA: Being on the show and personification her gave me a place to unequivocally grow as an actress and show up each day and plea myself again and know if I felt not good about the functions that I did, I can regularly arise up the subsequent day and come behind and do it again.
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