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Hayden Panettiere  ('I Love You Beth Cooper') Hayden Panettiere ('I Love You Beth Cooper')

Beautiful and confident, Hayden Panettiere has quickly established herself as one of Hollywood’s newest and brightest young stars, thanks to "Heroes" which started it all.

Chatting one-on-one with the very casually-dressed oung lady, we chatted about her latest movie 'I Love You Beth Cooper,' based on the popular novel about a geeky senior high schooler who declares his love for the seemingly unattainable cheerleader Beth Cooper during the former’s commencement speech.

So, cutting straight to the chase, did you demand a bonus for putting on a cheerleader outfit or being a cheerleader?! "I wish! I think I’m just going to start putting in my contract that I refuse to wear a cheerleading outfit for the rest of my career," she laughs. "In this film I only had to put it on once for a picture, but that was it."

And then you do a cheer in street clothes - you should cash in on this, 'cause that’s a big selling point for them! "I know. I don’t know why I always manage to find my way back to the cheerleading outfit."

Did you like your character? Was this a girl you could relate to? "I think so absolutely, it’s a very much, it’s kind of like a metaphor, even though specifically I haven’t gone through exactly what she’s going through, it still stems from these insecurities and not believing in yourself and I think we all have our own insecurities and I know I have plenty."

Like what? "Like body image insecurities. The older I get the more comfortable I get with it, but I still have my days where I don’t feel great, and I don’t like this outfit or that outfit and I’m having my fat ay where I have to put something baggy on and sweatpants or just, just with the way that people perceive me, I have plenty of insecurities I can go on and on."

You look completely brilliant, I can’t believe that you have insecurities. Do you work out a lot? You know, I’ve never been one of those people whose been obsessed with working out or being super skinny cause I’m just not, I’m not that. I have the body that I have and that’s not going to change as long as I try to stay as healthy as I can, and all that stuff. It’s a little hard when someone is standing behind you with a camera on the beach, takes a picture of your rear end, and points out all your bumps or whatever, buts some shading in, I mean it’s tough when you’re….you become much more critical of yourself because, you’re in the position of just such extreme judgment and scrutiny and you know, people love to point out flaws and love to build people up and let them down again."

There were recent photos of you on Elton John’s yacht. What were you doing there? How did you end up there? "Oh I was just on vacation and I was just friends were going, so I decided to come along and it was quite an experience."

On vacation on Elton John’s yacht is not an every day thing?! "No, it's not. It’s actually a very interesting and very strange world and I was glad that I had the experience because I realized that even though it’s so… I mean it’s so, it just shows you how out of balance the world is. You go to these places during the film festival and just, these people have work, money and wealth and all of that, and it’s just imbalanced knowing what a lot of the world looks like, and it’s crazy, but I would never want it, I would never want it, it’s great to have a friend with a boat, and a friend with a plane and a friend with houses all over the world, you know what I mean, it’s a responsibility but it was quite the experience."

Sorry to bring this up, but apparently you have a misspelled tattoo! Is that correct what the press said? "Hey, are we talking about the movie or are we talking about personal rumors," she laughs. "And it is misspelled, whatever, Vivere senza rimipiantic - which means, Live Without Regret' in Italian - but I put my own spin to it."

So, can you laugh and live with it?! "Yeah, I mean I’m not, I’m not rushing to in the direction and chances are I’ll probably get it fixed, but that’s why, you know I love having it on my back because I don’t get bored of it, I don’t have to stare at it all the time, but then you have it on your back and you don’t realize that it’s misspelled either."

OK, back to the movie - did you do many of the stunts? "I did as many as they would allow me to do. I was always an athlete growing up and I love sports but, I now can’t participate on a team like I could in high school, so stunts are kind of my sport. I do it as often as I can, as many as they’ll let me, it was fun though, it was a great experience, it was a fun film, its full of action and its funny and Chris Columbus is the nicest man I’ve ever worked with."

Which stunts did you do? "They allowed me to do some of the driving. I think that was most of the stunts, were her reckless driving. Other than that, it wasn’t really a stunt to fall in his lap – that was more him – he has to fall in my lap he has to find his way into my, ‘Hello!'," she laughs.

What about the shirt in the locker room? Is that you? Did you actually have to get naked?! "Yep! It didn’t bother me, it didn’t bother me. I think when the person who is doing it gets all uncomfortable and shy then its other people around who get more uncomfortable because they’re uncomfortable but I was, I was fine, everyone was really professional."

I was thinking there might be a little bit of uproar when the movie comes out over some of the reckless behavior. Do you think some recklessness is part of the growing up process? "Absolutely. All the kids I grew up with were the same. I think people are being a little naïve if they don’t know that that’s going on, and they don’t want to come to terms with it and it is and it’s a film, it’s a funny film, but you can’t be too nervous to speak the truth, because you know what, your kids, probably chances are your kids aren’t off in college or high school drinking juice boxes. It’s probably not likely, but I mean I’ve always, this is a character, you know it’s not me, it’s a character that we’ve created and tried to stay true to with the book and the story and if they want to uproar they can do it all the want."

Finally, in recent seasons, why do you think 'Heroes' has struggled with the fans? "I don’t know. I think it had a very high – it set a very high mark for itself and I think it’s very scrutinized now because of the demand of – it’s not an easy crowd to please all the time but I still enjoy watching the show."



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