Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2008-04-14

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The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream follows in the footsteps of the original hit romantic comedy, The Cutting Edge which charmed audiences with its story of an unlikely pair of polar opposites who unite on the ice for a shot at Olympic gold. Bringing passion and determination to the rink, The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream stars up-and-comers Matt Lanter ("Heroes," WarGames 2), Francia Raisa (Bring It On: All or Nothing) and Christy Carlson Romano ("Kim Possible," "The Cutting Edge - Going for the Gold").

We had the honor of sitting down with one of the stars from the new film, Christy Carlson Romano. Here's what she had to say:

Now you play the daughter of Kate Moseley and Doug Dorsey, and you were the skater in the "Going For The Gold"? Can you talk a little bit about your character in "Chasing The Dream" for people who haven't see it?

"Going for Gold" was everything that the first movie was but different, because we had two different people playing two different characters. It's very common for partners to fall in love as I come to find out. That's the reason that it's actually realistic, because it happens all the time. The people that doubled me, the people that doubled these kids, they were all married or together.

My character is a little bit more mature in "Chasing The Dream". She's grown up and she's divorced. She's got this whole bag of tricks that were going on with her. It was a challenge, because I needed to figure out how to play that realistically and still be likable.

Now did you skate at all growing up?

Yeah.

Was it just a hobby or did you ever do it competitively?

I did it for real, I did compete. I was really bad at it, so it only lasted for about a year [laughs].

How did you come into the role with The Cutting Edge? Was that something they approached you with because they knew you had a little skating experience? Or did you audition?

No, I don't have that much skating background at all [laughs]. I did get approached by the people that did Even Stevens, and they knew that I was a tough worker and things would be cool. So that's what I did. When they approached me with it, I was busy on Broadway with Beauty and the Beast, so they went to MGM and got the money and the financing. Then we went and did it, and then they sold it to ABC family. So it was really exciting.