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Clickable Emoticons	thenightandthefury wrote: > Please note: I am going off memory. If any details are slightly off I > apologize. Also I am going off a recording for some parts. > > Edit: the httyd part of the interview has has basically been shunned from > media. Merideth vieirra did not include the segment on her YouTube channel > nor is there any mention of it on how to train your dragons Facebook page > nor any news reports or other YouTube videos. I can only assume this is > because America gave away a spoiler. I have it on my recordings in case you > need proof that she mentioned httyd. I have given a detailed account if her > entire segment below along with all the videos I could find. > > I got to watch it but only saw the ad like 20 minutes before the show came > on yesterday. She didn't talk much about dragons, just about how the female > industry should have more female actors, more female people producing > movies, etc and more people of color in the industry. She started off > talking about how people still remembered her as ugly betty, and how she > loved working in that franchise and is glad people remember it. She talked > about sisterhood of the traveling pants next, then lastly dragons for just > a few short minutes. During talks about her other movie she talked how she > had formed strong bonds with the cast of the sisterhood of the traveling > pants movie, how a third one is in the works, and how she had been 20 at > the time and is now 30. She also talked about how most female actors she > knows are supportive women with integrity who stand by and support other > actresses, rather then the scandals we hear about. > > She talked about her husband who was her high school sweetheart and how she > came from a family of six kids.. and got asked if she ever had any pressure > to have babies; to which she replied "Only from talk shows." > mentioning that "Every woman has that pressure whether from culture, > families. Its just something you think about." Turns out her mother is > named America, so she was asked if she would name a kid America. She joked > only if it was a boy, but got serious and said that it was a tough name as > a kid and she wasn't sure she could do that to her own future children; > mentioning that people turned to face her rather then the flag during the > pledge allgiance and how nicknames were hard for her how some called her > "Bank of" for short, and how she prefered to go by Georgina as a > kid and prefered boy-ish names for girls. > > She talked about how she loved Astrid because "I love that she's a > girl who's in middle the action and for me its fun to play that and watch > the young girls in my life watch an action adventure and see a girl in the > middle of the fun not just standing by watching the boys have fun. I love > that about Astrid she is so kick ass if I may say.. am I allowed to say > that? " to which merideth sad "its america! You can say whatever > you like!" Basucally america said how she liked her because she was a > strong female character. Merideth made a comment that she wished Astrid > would look more like her.. "One thing that makes me mad; I wish she > looked more like you. Rather then blonde hair, blue eyes." > > "I don't know if vikings look like me" America said to which > Merideth said "I don't care! We don't know what they looked > like!" And then America explained that they had already made Astrid's > character when she auditioned and they had been open minded enough to cast > her, ending with "And we'll work on adding more brown haired brown > eyed vikings.. maybe in the third movie." > > Thats about all I can remember. I quoted the stuff from the HTTYD part from > a recording. Yes, I recorded it. XD > > Note: > > Found a couple clips! Sadly Merideth Vieira did not post any of the HTTYD 2 > part in it. =( > > America on Latina's: > [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RPW9GOfCiU[/url] > > America on Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants: > [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOEs7wANUs[/url] > > EDIT: I can't find any news reports anywhere about the HTTYD part of her > interview; sadly the sisterhood sequel took all the credit for the > interview mostly, with HTTYD 2 not even mentioned in news articles. If you > want, I can record it off my tablet and post it with you guys, but I don't > really want to do that.
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