As I said a few days ago… I've got a ton of interviews to post from the "Hairspray" junket and here is some other i, with more to come very presently.

Posted below is the roundtable interview with Amanda Bynes and Elijah Kelley. They talk nearly playing an interracial couple, working with John Travolta and all the other big actors in the flick, what they take coming up and a ton of other stuff.

Only before getting to the interview… here is the synopsis of the moving-picture show:

Tracy Turnblad, a big daughter with big pilus and an even bigger heart, has just 1 passion – dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore 'southward hippest dance political party on Goggle box. Tracy (Nikki Blonsky) seems a natural fit for the show except for ane not-so-piffling problem – she doesn't fit in. Her plus-sized effigy has e'er set her autonomously from the cool crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly protective plus-sized mother, Edna (John Travolta). That doesn't end Tracy because if in that location is ane matter that this girl knows, it's that she was born to dance. As her begetter Wilbur (Christopher Walken) tells her, "Become for information technology! Yous've got to think big to be big."

Afterwards wowing Corny Collins (James Marsden) at her high school dance, Tracy wins a spot on his bear witness and becomes an instant on-air sensation, much to the chagrin of the bear witness's reigning princess, Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snowfall), and her scheming mother, Velma (Michelle Pfeiffer), who runs television station WYZT. Even worse for Amber is the fact that it'south not just the audience who loves the new girl in boondocks; Bister'due south sweetheart, Link Larkin (Zac Efron), seems to be smitten with Tracy 's charms as well. This dance party gets personal as a bitter feud erupts between the girls as they compete for the coveted "Miss Teenage Hairspray" crown.

At school, however, a curt stint in detention and raised-eyebrows caused by the budding relationship between her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) and Seaweed (Elijah Kelley) opens Tracy 's eyes to a bigger result than the latest dance craze or the coolest hairdo – racial inequality. Throwing caution to the wind, she leads a march with Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) to fight for integration and winds up with an arrest warrant instead. Tracy is on the lam now and goes cloak-and-dagger – literally – to her all-time friend Penny'due south basement.

Has Tracy 's luck finally run out? Will she miss the final dance-off against Amber and forfeit the title of "Miss Hairspray," or will she sing and dance her manner out of trouble again?

When big hair meets large dreams anything can happen – and does – in this loftier-free energy one-act that proves you don't accept to fit in to win.

As always, y'all can download the sound of the roundtable interview past clicking here . It'due south an MP3 and easily placed on a portable player.

"Hairspray" opens on July twentyth.

Tin can each of you talk almost getting involved with this motion picture?

Amanda Bynes: I experience like all of young Hollywood wanted to be in this movie so we were just blessed to be the ones who they felt were right for the function.

Elijah Kelley: My mortgage was due, that's why I did this. I needed to pay my mortgage.

Amanda: I'll speak for myself then.

Elijah: But, no, these are parts and opportunities that literally, when information technology hitting the fan, everybody wanted a cleft at this movie. They were actually going for all the heavy hitters. With people like John Travolta and Michelle and Queen and all those guys, it was just a really amazing thing and to pass information technology up would be the almost craziest thing you could exercise in your life.

Amanda, can you talk about creating that character? She's merely such a wonderful, innocent…

Elijah: Well, that's what you say [laughter].

Talk about finding that rhythm of playing her.

Amanda: It was funny. I talked to Adam [Shankman] about the fact that it was the most pulled dorsum I've ever been in a movie because I've been a man in one and I've done Nickelodeon where I've been many characters; very goofy. So, for this movie, I had to sort of pull dorsum and be kind of placidity and sort of exist the observer which was really kind of fun for me and unlike. This was the type of movie I want to be in which is a movie with the heavy hitters and the veterans who I promise to, one day, be like. So, for me, I just wanted to do my best. I was game every day to just be the best Penny I could exist. And, a lot of times, when I practise a role, I think, 'what if someone else was playing this part?' and, if I was watching it, 'how would I practise it better?' So I'd kind of go in there and just exercise the all-time I could practise. And, as far every bit the transition goes, it was kind of like me, in that she's growing into a woman. I felt kind of shy at the beginning. It's like all these people I don't know and, in the terminate, yous get kind of comfortable and speak your mind.

I wondered if you lot are sick of lollipops yet?

Amanda: I am. Those were the cherry kind. At present I similar watermelon. So, I'grand sick of ruby just I like watermelon. No, I'm sick of those too.

Elijah, how did you go the part?

Elijah: I heard they were going at a lot of the R&B and popular stars that are out right at present. It was a approval. I was fortunate enough to slip into the cracks. I wasn't known. I wasn't this big, huge, gigantic star. I just work hard at it. I do the sometime grind work. Got in to practise my affair. I feel similar, if I wasn't able to have done this picture show, I don't remember my career would take started the mode I wanted it to. How many times practise you get to get on a platform where yous're able to exploit all your talents? That was then fortunate for me and information technology does not injure the procedure of me finding girls [laughter].

Can you talk well-nigh the rehearsal process for this?

Elijah: Nosotros had about a month and a half of just direct dancing and singing. Nosotros did not see a camera for about ii months. That was amazing but we said a lot of times that it was similar summertime camp because you have and then many smashing dancers. I hateful dancers who've danced for Beyonce and Britney and Justin Timberlake; all these people. They're like the all-stars of what they practise. To sit in that location and have a bunch of creative energy whether it's interim, singing or dancing, that was just something. A lot of times, information technology didn't experience like work. It was just so much fun.

On the credits information technology doesn't say you did much dancing. It'southward more than singing and acting. If you aren't a trained dancer, I'thou shocked.

Elijah: I can move merely I've never background danced for everyone. I've never been in stuff like that.

But that divide thing….

Elijah: [laughs] I know. At that place's a lady named Angela Radcliffe in my hometown in Georgia and she had this dance studio and I danced for one summer because of this girl I liked and I was similar freakin'. I forget how old I was, probably eleven and I took this class simply to meet this girl and I went on to do a whole summer and nosotros won trophies and stuff like this but it was kiddie dance in sparkly suits. When I found out what sparkly really looks similar, I burned 'um all simply that was the only time. In high schoolhouse, we did chorus and stuff like that merely I've never taken professional classes and stuff like that. Information technology'south a God-given gift.

Everyone must have been exhausted making this film but did the young cast become to hang out off set?

Amanda: We did. Information technology's kind of like being stuck with a group of people in a hotel in a new place. It'due south Toronto and none of us live there and so nosotros would become together and become consume or go to movies.

The pic portrays you two in an interracial relationship. Were y'all concerned almost that?

Amanda: Not really. To us, that'south and so non even an issue that's existent in our minds anymore. I know that some people may experience that way but, for me, I grew up on a testify called "All That" which was a mix of Black and White people and we were just people. I had crush on and had a kiss with an African-American kid when I was eleven and, to me, I didn't come across information technology every bit anything other than the boy I liked. It wasn't anything to me.

Elijah: Aye and then we met back up later in life.

Amanda: Yeah, who knew that we'd piece of work together again.

Elijah: She grew upwardly in California and I grew up in Georgia which was kind of a unlike experience; Georgia being one of the last to jump on the bandwagon of the integration borderland. My grandparents and my mother and male parent, they caught some of that stuff and they were able to requite me firsthand accounts and experiences that they had. I was in awe of some of the stuff they were telling me. A lot of things happened that I think our generation are particularly blind to and don't get to see a lot of, especially here in Fifty.A. It's a little bit more than liberated in dating and sexual preference and all that stuff. Merely it's definitely an awakening to our generation to move forward and more further from what that was. Somebody said their twelve-twelvemonth-old kid saw the movie and got really distressing and said 'are you serious? That's really what happened? That'southward not cool'.

Amanda: It's kind of a history lesson in a way and it'south as well squeamish that it has John Travolta and the big stars so that it's like the people who know are dealing with an issue that people don't really talk well-nigh. Information technology's kind of nice to have them do information technology in a funny way.

What is the most unusual thing yous have in your trailer?

Elijah: The dress from Amanda'due south last scene, the finale, I have that in my trailer and John Travolta'southward fat suit was in my trailer. I like to lay with it. [laughter].

Amanda: I don't know why. It's very odd.

Did you grope him by whatsoever chance?

Eljiah: Actually, when they were making the suit, I felt strange groping him because I felt stupid. There was a human being under there and then I was hesitant to do that but when they were making it in the make-up trailer…

Amanda: The weird affair in my trailer. I don't think it'southward weird but I e'er accept Dumb and Dumber playing on my TV considering I only think it's the funniest movie and, for some reason, I have that on constantly. I only think information technology'south very inspiring comedically and, besides that, I would say sometimes fan post and snacks.

Elijah: Did you go my letter?

Amanda: No. And I don't know why you have my dress. That freaks me out. [laughter].

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What are yous guys working on next?

Elijah: I'm right now working on the album, full throttle going full at that. I've been writing a lot of music. I wrote for Mario and I wrote and produced that record and I'yard also working on a movie called Party Upwardly which is at New Line which is a cross between Ferris Buehler's Day Off and like the House Party series so it'south like a practiced teen movie to get that audience and then motion from in that location.

Amanda: For me, I only did a movie called Sydney White which is, I guess, a retelling of Snowfall White in higher and instead of dwarves they're dorks and so, my Snowfall White character kind of cleans these boys up and sort of makes them less dorky.

When yous use the hairspray in the movie, were yous using the old school kind with the ozone stuff…

Amanda: No. We used modern products. When we used information technology to show stuff, I think they used deodorant, actually, because that sprays white which you tin can see on camera.

They gave it to us.

Amanda: Yeah. That's what I hateful. That'due south actually the production that we used most so we were like 'well, we might as well make a real thing out of it'.

What was it like working with John Travolta?

Elijah: That was great. John Travolta, I don't think everyone would non bound at a chance to work with a guy like him because he'southward gone from Grease to Face Off to, he's gonna exercise Dallas. I mean he'southward and so great in his range and he's truly a legend and a pro in our time. I think that's like a testament for all of them, Queen, Michelle and all of them. We learned so much from all of them, simply in their walk of professionalism and how to be equally actors and people.

Amanda: For me information technology was the same thing. It's really interesting to work with someone who has managed to take longevity which seemingly is the hardest thing to have in Hollywood . Information technology seems like it's difficult to figure out that mixing of changing your roles and so people don't become bored but not changing them so much that y'all lose your fanbase. I like to sentry [John] to run into how he works and he's only a overnice guy and I think that's a lot of it too, yous can't plough into an evil person. You take to yet remain who yous were when yous became famous, or before you became famous.

Are either of you Broadway fans or, since this movie, do yous have a desire to do something on stage?

Amanda: I would love to, definitely.

Elijah: Me likewise. I'd love to practise Broadway. Information technology'south funny. I dearest it but I've never really seen an actual Broadway show, non even "Hairspray". I saw "Hairspray" at the Pantages in L.A. Information technology came to the Pantages right earlier I did the movie and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like 'I really, really take to go feel a Broadway play'.

Elijah, is your album more R&B or more rap?

Elijah: No, it'southward non rap at all. It's like a fusion between Globe Air current and Fire, they're funk soul and like the R&B popular of today. It's untitled right now. That volition probably happen….I'chiliad procrastinating. I'll probably name it like the week earlier it'due south supposed to come out. The music is the most important matter right now.

Amanda, you've been working since you were very immature. Do you set aside time every twelvemonth to accept a break or have you been driven to work since you were a kid?

Amanda: I'chiliad definitely driven to work. I don't know why. I guess it'south because you go a taste of this job and information technology's sort of addictive and I get why people want to do it but, for me, it's like I want to do movies that are cool like this. It'southward very hard to find a Hairspray so I don't take breaks so much as I don't do them on purpose. I do it while I'thou waiting for find a good project. Any time I'm not working, it'southward not because I'chiliad like 'oh, I detest my job and I don't want to do it', it'south because I'm like I'g searching for the right flick.

Can both of y'all talk well-nigh staying grounded because nosotros've seen other young people getting into problems. Is it certain people in your life or something that comes from within?

Elijah: I'm still agape of my female parent [laughter] and then a lot of the things I'd consider doing if I saw her afterwards, it wouldn't be….

Amanda: That's exactly how I feel. Information technology's weird that yous say that considering I want to all the same do what I want to do. I don't love listening to what people say I accept to do but I don't want my parents to be disappointed in me so, a lot of times, I really want them to exist proud of me and I want to have their seal of approval. So, a lot of times, with things that I don't exercise is considering I have a family and also, I await at Will Smith. He did rap but he rapped nigh, like he didn't drink and exercise drugs. What a good role model when that's not as cool in the streets to do. I just think that'southward very refreshing.

Elijah: I recall we are both conscious that people are gonna look at the states and look upwards to the states for stuff. That's something that comes along with the territory so we're very witting of it.

Amanda: And likewise, I retrieve nosotros're very appreciative of our opportunities. For me, why would I ever throw that away by being a jerk? For usa, we're both focused and we desire to have long, successful careers. Why would we want to throw that away by being jerks or going out too late?