Gregory Smith After 'Everwood'

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Gregory Smith is familiar to many of you as Ephram on the popular TV series "Everwood". The cutie has appeared in several feature films as well ever since he was a boy of six. You might have caught a younger Greg in American Outlaws, The Patriot and Small Soldiers as well as several Disney Channel TV films.

Now, in Nearing Grace, Smith takes on the sensitive role of Henry Nearing, a 1970's high school senior whose life is turned upside down when his mom dies. His dad loses it, his brother is a complete drug head and he's in limbo until he falls for the school seductress (Jordana Brewster) but, does she even care about him? We cornered Gregory in Beverly Hills recently for the insider info on his first big teen-friendly project after "Everwood",

his longtime crush on Jordana Brewster, what's coming up for him and what it was like to dance around in underwear on screen like the young Tom Cruise did in Risky Business. Check it out…

TeenHollywood: Was this experience very different from shooting "Everwood"?

Gregory: Very different. Everything about it is really different, mostly in terms of just the amount of time you have to do the amount of work you have to do, and the pace. And it's just like a different set of rules.

TeenHollywood: And with a series you are more like a family, right?

Gregory: Yeah. You know, you get thrown together with people on film and you don't know any of them, and you become best friends, and then you don't really see each other ever again. And on a TV show, you get thrown together with people and you're stuck with them. [laughs] You know what I mean? [laughs] But they're both great. The nice thing about doing a TV show is you do it and millions of people are going to see it on their television sets every week. With a film like this, it's a lot more of a risk, and you really want to put your heart into it, because if you don't, then people aren't going to want to see it. So there's not a built-in outlet.

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