The film offers a fresh, postmodern twist to the genre, as it becomes both subtly subversive and self-aware, while casually giving a nod to John Hughes’ high-school classics. But of course, life, as is usually the case in high-school, has other plans. In our case it’s Bianca, a high school senior, enjoying her final year with best friends, Jess and Casey. I called that.Every group of popular kids has that one kid who is not. I also felt a little smug like, “Yeah, nailed it. My agent called me and she knew how much I loved Mae - everybody knew - and she was like, “You’re not gonna believe this, but Mae Whitman just got cast as Bianca.” And I couldn’t believe it. So when I got the call that she’d been cast, I actually kind of thought I was being messed with at first. It was more her attitude than anything, just how funny she could be and how she carried herself and how she could deliver some of these kind of sarcastic lines and still be so endearing. I remember seeing her in Parenthood and just thinking she was perfect. It’s usually like “this person - but twelve years ago!” But Mae was actually always my number one choice for Bianca. Every book I ever have written, I’ve had my dream cast and usually they’re completely unrealistic and not age appropriate. Did you have any other dream cast in mind? You mentioned that you’d always wanted Mae to play Bianca.
I actually didn’t think I would write the book, but then one day the story just sort of hit me and I started writing and I didn’t stop and I wrote the whole first draft in about a month and a half.
She’s going to be the DUFF throughout and she’s gonna be kind of snarky about it.
And I kind of jokingly said, “Oh well I’ll have to write a book called “The DUFF.” But unlike in every other cliche story, she won’t take off her glasses and take out her ponytail and be a supermodel. Everybody in the group thought it was them. I’m the DUFF here.”īut when I was telling my friends this, I realized they all thought they were the DUFF. At first, I thought it was really funny and then I thought, “no wait, it’s really mean.” And then I thought, “Oh crap. So I asked her and when she told me it was the “designated ugly fat friend.” I was totally taken aback. KK: I started writing the book when I was 17 and what inspired it was I walked into the cafeteria one morning and I heard this girl at my usual table talking about her weekend and she was saying that she hated it when guys referred to her friend as “the DUFF.” And I didn’t know what it meant.
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