MANDY MOORE ATTRACTED TO COLORFUL CHARACTERS

Mandy Moore says she enjoys meeting people who have quirky personalities but wouldn’t necessarily date them.

In Dedication Mandy Moore’s illustrator teams up with Billy Crudup’s children’s writer to collaborate on the ongoing adventures of Marty, the beaver. Soon enough Mandy finds Billy is a child himself dealing with idiosyncrasies like putting heavy books on his chest to quell his anxieties.

Mandy says in life she’s attracted to quirky people because it makes life more colorful.

“I haven’t necessarily experienced the insanity that is Billy’s character in the film. I mean he’s quirky to a degree that I’ve never met before but I wouldn’t be opposed to it. I actually quite like coming across those people even if it’s just observing them in real life. It’s what makes life colorful. If anything I think it’s about just not ignoring the crazy connections you may have with someone. Just sort of stepping up to the plate and going for it. It’s life.”

Getting along with crazy characters may come easy for Mandy but drawing them doesn’t.

“I took a one day sort of tutorial kind of course. I snuck into Parson’s and went into the illustrator department and watched them sketch. A lot of the students showed me some of their work. But I’m really shy and I’m a terrible artist actually. That side of my brain is not developed whatsoever so I tried to partake a little bit in the class but I ended up being terrible. So in the actual scenes where I’m supposed to be sketching, I’m literally just sketching over a sketch that’s already on the paper. I can sign an autograph OK; it’s just the drawing I’m terrible at.”

Dedication opens Friday, August 24th in theaters.