It's a boy! It's a girl! It's Samaire Armstrong!
June 9, 2008

Samaire Armstrong was a little leery about getting involved in the indie romantic comedy It’s A Boy Girl Thing (Anchor Bay, Street: June 17)—the story of two high school enemies (played by Samaire and Kevin Zegers) who switch bodies and then must deal with the actions and reactions of being a member of the opposite sex. She was afraid that it was going to be “another one of those body-switch movies” But the striking starlet--whose best known for her role on TV's The O.C., Entourage and, most currently, Dirty Sexy Money--found a lot to work with in Geoff Dean’s screenplay and when she began shooting, she rose to the challenge. 

“I was frightened to death – I had such a panic attack,” Samaire told me in an interview conducted last week. “I had blocked it out in my head, but I really didn’t visualize what it would be like to be a boy. I actually had to call

She received more helpful tips on the male of the species from her co-star, Kevin Zegers, who would, in turn, get some feminine advice from Samaire.

“Kevin would leave messages on machine and I would draw from that,” she remembered. “Everything I picked up from everyone, I put it together to create the essence of a guy.”

Samaire was pleased with the results—so pleased, in fact, that she finds herself watching the film regularly!

“In most productions, I’m just shy about watching myself, but I’ve watched this so many times,” Samaire admits. “But I love this movie and the story and the way it looks!

Posted by Laurence Lerman on June 9, 2008 | Comments (2)