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Early in her career, she appeared in several episodes of her sister's hit Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire —and the pair collaborated on singles for Disney shows and movie soundtracks, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie Following Napoleon DynamiteDuff joined the main cast of family drama 7th Heaven — for its final two seasons. She started her food blog, Real Girl's Kitchen, in and published a cookbook in This led to a television show on the Cooking Channel in Duff still finds time for acting roles.

InDuff got engaged to clothing entrepreneur Matt Rosenberg, although the couple has been in no rush to get married. They have two daughters. Toward the end of the film, Kip's online girlfriend LaFawndah Lucas surprises the audience by a actually existing, and b being just as serious about Kip as he claimed she was. She put her lightning-fast comedy skills to good use in the Oxygen comedy prank show Girls Behaving Badly —working with Chelsea Handler and Ken Jeong.

She later reprised the role in the spinoff Cuts — Avery is married to Ade Kester. Trisha was Napoleon's unhappy prom date, whom he memorably wooed by drawing an unappealing portrait of her. She was played by Emily Kennard, now Emily Dunn. Dunn ventured into video game art and design in the s, contributing visuals to a Rugrats game, a Meet the Robinsons tie-in game, and the Tak and the Power of Juju series.

We shot it in 23 days, so we were moving very, very fast; I just didn't have a lot of film to be able to do a lot of takes. It was a bunch of friends getting together to make a movie. It was like, 'Are people going to get this? Is it working? Hess describes the film as being "so autobiographical". Jerusha really was like Deb growing up. Her mom made her a dress when she was going to a middle school dance and she said, 'I hadn't really developed yet, so my mom overcompensated and made some very large, fluffy shoulders.

The film is set during the — school year, as shown on Napoleon's student ID card in the title sequence. For example, Deb wears a side ponytail and Napoleon wears Moon Bootsboth popular fashion trends of the s.

Napoleon dynamite cast don: Deb. Sandy Martin. Grandma. Haylie Duff.

Much of the technology in the film is also archaic; Napoleon uses a top-loader VCR and Walkman cassette player, Kip connects to the Internet via a pay-per-minute dial-up connection and Uncle Rico drives a Dodge Tradesman. The film was originally made without opening titles. Audiences at test screenings were confused about when the film was set.

Eight months after the film was completed, the title sequence was filmed in cinematographer Munn Powell's basement. The sequence shows a pair of hands placing and removing several objects on a table. Objects like plates of food had the credits written in condiments, while other objects like a Lemonheads box or a tube of ChapStick had the credits printed on them.

Hess explains:. So this question came up a few times and the Fox Searchlight marketing people were like "maybe we could do something to say that this is happening now" because I kept explaining to them that I grew up in a small town in Idaho and that things are more, you know, functional and fashion doesn't matter as much It's kind of weird, but because they wanted to show that the film takes place now, there's a title where a hand pulls Napoleon's school ID out of a wallet and it says "".

We actually had Jon Heder placing all the objects in and out [of frame], and then showed it to Searchlight who really liked it and thought it was great, but some lady over there was like "There are some hangnails or something — the hands look kinda gross! It's really bothering me, can we re-shoot some of those? We'll send you guys a hand model.

This, of course, was my first interaction with a studio at all, so they flew out a hand model a couple weeks later, who had great hands but was five or six shades darker than Jon Heder. So we reshot, but they're now intermixed, so if you look there are like three different dudes' hands our producers are in there too. It all worked out great, though, and was a lot of fun.

The Hesses wrote the climactic dance scene because they knew Heder liked to dance. I've seen you boogie; it's pretty sweet,'" recalled Heder. But I did take pride in it.

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I won't be modest. I wasn't great but I did like to mess around Cut to two years later: after we had shot the short, they were like, 'Okay we're going to have you dancing in the movie as the climax. This is going to make or break the film. When it came to shooting the dance scene for the final film, the producers scheduled to film it towards the end of the film.

When they finally got to the scene, they were running out of money and film. They only had one roll of film approximately This is the moment where everything comes, and he's making the sacrifice for his friend. That's the whole theme of the movie. Everything leads up to this. Napoleon's been this loser. This has to be the moment where he lands a victory.

He gets up there, and it's quiet: no reaction from the audience. The dance was spontaneously improvised by Heder, with some choreography help from Tina Majorino, and additional moves taken from Saturday Night FeverMichael Jacksonand Soul Train. I danced three times and they took the best pieces from each of those. So we danced to three different songs.

To that song and another Jamiroquai song, " Little L. Just those three. And then we got the rights to Jamiroquai. And I think that was half our budget. I listen to hip-hopdude. It's a pretty embarrassing coincidence. Costello believes that Hess got the name from him, whether directly or indirectly. Costello said, "The guy just denies completely that I made the name up Maybe somebody told him the name and he truly feels that he came to it by chance.

But it's two words that you're never going to hear together. In addition, a bronze statue of Napoleon Dynamite, complete with tetherball, was placed at the 20th Century Fox studio lot. A 20th anniversary screening of the film took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24,to commemorate the festival's 20th anniversary, in the form of a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm negative produced by Searchlight Pictures and its parent company Walt Disney Studiosunder the supervision of Hess.

On the announcement, he remarked "Returning to Sundance with Napoleon Dynamite feels like a homecoming. When it premiered at the festival 20 years ago, we never anticipated the incredible reaction it would receive It's always been a very personal napoleon dynamite cast don for Jerusha and me, so the love affair it's had with audiences all these years continues to delight us.

To commemorate its 20th anniversary, we are thrilled to screen this newly restored version The restoration team did an amazing job bringing to life new details from the original film's negative that we'd never seen before. We can't wait to share it! The director and several cast members attended the Sundance screening in Park City, Utah. Efren Ramirez reprised part of Pedro's speech at the student assembly by saying, "I really don't have much to say.

Have a happy Sundance. The DVD is a double-sided disc containing full screen and letterbox versions of the film, plus Peluca and deleted scenes—all with audio commentary. The "10th Anniversary Edition" Blu-ray was released on June 2, A digital release of the 4K screening of the film is also currently available to purchase and stream. In its term sheet, Fox agreed to pay The lawsuit said that a audit revealed that Fox was only paying net royalties on home videos at a 9.