Camp Rock: Stories About the Stars

Welcome to Young Hollywood dot com. Hey, I'm Jill Wilderman for Young Hollywood and TV Guide. We're here at Hollywood's version of Camp Rock. We're here to talk to one of the stars of the latest Disney sensation. We're here, of course, with Anna Maria Perez de Tagle. What can everyone expect of Camp Rock? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: Everyone can expect great dancing, great singing, great everything.

Which color? Ella. They're exactly the same. So you see my dilemma. Tell us about Ella. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: Well, she's a girly-girl of the Mean Girl Clique and she's obsessed with nail polish and lip gloss, and she's kind of a ditch, but her character changes completely towards the end of the movie.

So what does he do? He owns a hardware store. So what is it like for a nice, smart girl to play a mean ditzy girl? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: I mean, it's kind of challenging just because I'm not really mean. I mean, provided that I do the job right, I'm gonna get, you know, hated on. Whatever, major loser.

So you're saying there was some intense training while you were, you know, preparing for the film? Tell us about that. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: It was crazy 'cause I'm not a trained dancer. So the day after I got to Toronto where we filmed, they said, "Okay, go straight to dance class." And then little did I know, it was five hours later and I'm like on the floor dying. I had to learn two dances that day. So and then the next day, I could barely get off my bed.

What's your most fond memory of being on set? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: The whole cast, we're all great friends. We're always in touch. And just meeting the Jonas Brothers, it was like number one for me, 'cause I was like a major fan before I had even worked with them.

Do you have a favorite? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: Nick's gorgeous, Joe's pretty hot, and Kevin's cute, but I'm gonna play it safe and go with Kevin.

So a lot of girls out there would want to know what it was like to go trick-or-treating with them. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: It was fun 'cause we had uh filmed some Camp Rock promos the day and said, "Oh, what are you doing tonight?" "Oh, nothing, nothing." So, "why don't we go as a High School Musical cast?" So it was really funny how I had to play Ryan Evans, put on a blonde wig. So we went out for like two hours and then we went back. "What are we gonna do now? Let's play hide and seek in the backyard." So it was really fun. Their backyard is really big, so we got to hide all over the place. Nick was in the tree, on the roof, I was in the pool house. It was really fun.

And do you know how many girls would like to be friends with the Jonas Brothers? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: So many. I know my friends are like, "Can you tell Joe that we say hi and he that he's really hot?" And I'm like, um that's gonna be kind of weird. Hi Joe. My Miley life is gonna stay exactly the same. Hi, hi. Ashley, are you lost?

Any fun set stories from Hannah Montana? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: My friend Shanica who plays Amber, she taught Miley how to krump. Then Miley was like, "Okay, okay." She did it but it wasn't totally different. And so we call it the Miley krump. So from now on whenever we're bored, we're just like, "Let's do the Miley krump."

Do you enjoy working with Miley? Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: I love her. She's she's a very down-to-earth girl.

You are so funny. I've always loved that about you. Mean girls say what? Stop it. You are a delight. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: Hi, this is Anna Maria Perez de Tagle.