1. After starting his career as a pop star and just having an actor – a supporting role in The Princess Diaries—on her resume, Mandy Moore fought for the role of Jamie after reading Nicholas Sparks novel and falling in love with character and story.
“I had such a visceral reaction to it that I remember I couldn’t read because I almost hyperventilated while crying,” she said. Los Angeles Times 2010. “It was my first movie and I know people say it can be a cliché and that it is tear -eyed or goofy, but for me it is what I am most proud of.”
2. But someone else was almost the main role over Moore, according to Shane Westwhose character Landon romanceed the deadly teenager.
“There was someone else – whom I don’t intend to say right now – whose name was melted around for Mandy’s role,” said West Coyly Entertainment Weekly. “I remember I wasn’t craving that idea and thankfully it wasn’t.”
3. While West would not reveal the other actress in battle, director Adam Shankman revealed that she was another young singer.
“The studio made me look at Jessica Simpson“, he shared with Elle. “But I drove up Laurel Canyon, I heard Mandy’s song” I Wanna Be With You “, and I thought, who the hell is that little angel voice? I went to the record store Virgin, looked her face and browsed out. I said,” it is my girl ‘. “
