What don’t you know her from? Brenda Song has been seen in Get a Clue with Lindsay Lohan, as well as Stuck in the Suburbs, Phil of the Future and 7th Heaven. This total sweetheart gives us all the scoop as she talks here about, well…everything!
Read our second interview with Brenda Song.
THE STAR SCOOP:
How did you get your start in acting?
BRENDA SONG:
I actually started out modeling in San Francisco. All I remember is like Cindy Crawford, I wanted to be on TV. So I got an agent and I started doing modeling and as that went on I wanted to do other things, like when you do modeling you’re standing, you took pictures, look pretty, all that. I really wanted to explore a little bit more. So I started moving on to commercials and then shows and then films and so on and so forth.
THE STAR SCOOP:
What was the first job that you did?
BRENDA SONG:
A little Caesars pizza commercial. When I was like five.
THE STAR SCOOP:
You have a huge range of credits. Which do you like better, doing TV or doing movies?
BRENDA SONG:
It really doesn’t matter because they’re both very different and each and every job is just like a different experience, it’s a new experience. And like every character is different. So I don’t really have a preference, ’cause I just want to keep working (laughs) so if I get a movie or a TV show or a commercial, it doesn’t really matter to me. And it’s just the fact that I just like doing this and so it hasn’t made any difference whether it’s on film, on TV or you know, I don’t have a preference at all.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Of all the different characters you’ve played, do you have a favorite?
BRENDA SONG:
It’s actually hard to say. Projects are different. With Like Mike I was on set with five boys for three months and I did Get a Clue with Lindsay Lohan where we were in makeup trailer for two hours in the morning getting hair extensions and makeup and then in Like Mike I pulled my hair into a ponytail and they’re like okay, go get dirty, the dirtier you get, the better. And I did these projects back to back and so from going from like having girls night out, shopping like all the time to going on set – we played basketball all day long and they’re so different and I had so much fun on both, like Lindsay’s one of my good friends now and Bow and Jonathan, I still keep in touch with all of them. So we have all these memories that kind of keep us together. And so I can’t really have a favorite character because each one is different from all these experiences that I love and hold onto.
THE STAR SCOOP:
You did Stuck in the Suburbs.
BRENDA SONG:
Yeah. Well doing Stuck in the Suburbs is awesome because I made like life-long friends because Danielle Panabaker and I like, we call each other and I talked to her this morning. And we just got together, the director, his little daughter just had her like 4th birthday and we were there and Ryan’s from Canada and we all got there and we just sat down and it was just like we were back in New Orleans. We just sat there, we just kept talking and just like picked up right where we left off. And the experiences are wonderful but the character that I played in Stuck in the Suburbs was so much fun – she’s just like kinda the crazier side of me. She’s the one who fabricates her life to make herself fit in, to make herself stand out. I love the story. When I read the script for Stuck I loved it because it’s really what girls go through nowadays. Like Danielle, her character Brittany wants to have the high life, wants to be able to travel all around the world but all the while she didn’t realize that she has a great life, she has a very steady foundation and while Natasha, she wants this steady foundation but she doesn’t really have it because she fabricates the lies, like oh I did this I did that I did this. And the reality of it is a lot of girls do that now. You know, make themselves stand out. And it’s really sad they have to do that but you know, it’s where the world is now. And so that was a lot of fun shooting. You know, what people always say, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Like I have straight hair and I want curly hair. People who have curly hair want straight hair.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Which actors and actresses do you look up to?
BRENDA SONG:
Actor wise, my favorite is Russell Crowe and Matt Damon. Just because they’re so diverse. They can do anything. And for women, I love Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie because they don’t follow trends, they set them. I love watching them because they’re never the same and I just learn so much from watching them.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Are you recognized a lot by people?
BRENDA SONG:
When Stuck came out it was crazy ’cause we went to six flags and we were there and so many kids recognized us from Stuck in the Suburbs, I’m like wow that movie must have done really well. And it was really crazy ’cause it was my first really big crazy thing where the guards at six flags had to come and give me a security guard. Like I didn’t expect, like I’m no one. I’m just here like having fun.
THE STAR SCOOP:
What would you tell girls your age who want to break into acting?
BRENDA SONG:
The sky’s the limit. Reach for the stars. Anything that you want to do, you never know. Like anything’s possible. Like, If I can get here, anyone can. I was just a little two year old saying I want to be on TV and you know, I going to be doing my own show next month. And so I really think you should just try, ’cause you never know, and if you really, truly want to do this and you really have passion for it, go for it. Because no one should tell you that you can’t do something.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Tell us about this new show you have.
BRENDA SONG:
Oh, it’s called The Suite Life. This is Dylan and Cole Sprouse from Big Daddy. It’s this show based in a hotel and these two boys, they live in the hotel – they move in there ’cause their mom is a lounge singer and they sing in the lounge. And my character, she plays like the Disney Paris Hilton, and her dad owns the hotel and we’re gonna start shooting – September.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Are you excited about that?
BRENDA SONG:
I’m so excited. We have the greatest cast in the world and we’ve all gotten so close. And I’m really, really excited to be starting this and we have wardrobe and hair next week.
THE STAR SCOOP:
What do when you have time for yourself?
BRENDA SONG:
I love staying home and watch movies, and like hang out with my brothers. I just love to do nothing. I think it’s like, when you’re working so much and I come home I just wanna sit and just spend time with my family ’cause it’s hard – you don’t see them when you’re working ten hours a day. I usually come home and my brothers and I watch a movie or we’ll go outside and shoot a basketball so I can talk to my brothers. Just normal boring stuff like that.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Who is your favorite cartoon character?
BRENDA SONG:
Definitely Bell from Beauty and the Beast.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Do you watch the Disney Channel Original Movies?
BRENDA SONG:
Oh, of course I do.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Do you have a favorite?
BRENDA SONG:
My favorite? I like Brink. Brink was awesome. I loved Brink. ‘Cause I had this huge crush on Eric Von Detten.
THE STAR SCOOP:
What are the qualities of your ideal boyfriend?
BRENDA SONG:
Um, I think at this point it would just be someone that I could relate to, that I could just talk with and not have to worry. Someone who isn’t insecure, someone just totally cool that could be my best friend. Right now I’m 16 and I just feel like so many kids that are so young are dating and stuff like that and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I feel like, I’m doing school, I’m working, I have so much on my plate, I don’t have time to worry about a whole other person. And it wouldn’t be fair for me to date someone and not be able to give them 100%. At this point, like my brother, he’s like you know, girls are calling him and I’m like he’s at the age of 14 what can you really do but be like hey can I hold your hand will you be my boyfriend? It’s really cute ad fun and it’s great but some kids are getting so serious at such a young age and have their whole life ahead of them.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Do you think it’s hard for you to find time to be just like a regular old teenager?
BRENDA SONG:
Seriously, like my work, I leave it in LA, – I live in a suburb of LA so I’m Stuck in the Suburbs (laughs) when I come home and on the weekends and stuff, we go out to the movies, I love when Lord of the Rings come out or some big movie I loved waiting in line. You go like an hour early and you wait in line for really good seats. Like I love doing that. It’s like; you know you worked hard for those seats that you’re sitting in.
THE STAR SCOOP:
How would you describe the style you wear?
BRENDA SONG:
I change a lot. I went through this really Goth stage and I went through this really colorful 80’s – 80’s rock and then I went through the Abercrombie where the torn jeans with wife beater with the flip flops. You know, but myself, I’m really laid back; it’s really just however I feel in that moment. Like if I wanna dress up for something – I just got these really cute red Marc Jacob rain boots and so sometimes I’ll feel like wearing that with like a leather mini skirt and like a wife beater or I wanna go out and I wanna wear my little Abercrombie shorts and a little halter or something. Just very laid back and just very relaxed.
THE STAR SCOOP:
Ten years from now, where do you see yourself?
BRENDA SONG:
Ten years – hopefully I’ll still be working on some sort of something in ten years. Hopefully I’ll be able to drive. I’ll have a place of my own, and hopefully I’ll have my college degree. It’s not anything really in depth. I’m a person who likes to take everything one day at a time. I don’t know what’s going to happen like from now and like next month, I really don’t know what’s gonna happen. So I’m at the mood to just live it day by day and just really enjoy life ‘cause life is way too short and like you never know what’s gonna happen.
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