Mandy Moore: Getting Moore

For a hint on the range of Moore's aspirations, it's instructive to hear about a film she didn't end up making. "I really wanted to do Chicago. I auditioned for the role Lucy Liu got, but they said I was too young. I'm a musical theater geek, and my dream is to star on Broadway in a great revival of Bye Bye Birdie or, when I'm old enough, Guys and Dolls."

In the blink of an eye Moore will no longer be too young for the most sought-after roles in Hollywood. In the meantime she seems to be growing up in style. "I don't consider myself a very fashionable person, but I do appreciate fashion. As far as designers, I love Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga, Chloé--elegant, tasteful, classy stuff that I can wear for awhile and not be out of date. I don't like to be too trendy. Anyone can do that."

Moore has also passed her first celebrity test: she managed to avoid a tabloid frenzy over her breakup with "That '70s Show" star Wilmer Valderrama. "We were together for a year and a half, and it just kind of fizzled," she explains. "I was a young girl. My experience with actors is that there's something different about them. I much prefer to stay out of that whole world."

Moore is now seeing American tennis sensation Andy Roddick, about whom she says, "I'm very much in love. I was filming How To Deal in Toronto and he was playing a tournament there. My mother is an uber-tennis fan and had always been talking about this guy, and I was like, 'Tennis? Ugh' She dragged me to one of his matches, and I met him afterwards. I knew nothing about tennis and he knew nothing about the entertainment industry. Although I've since learned a lot about tennis, we don't talk about work. We're just together. I'm so young, so who knows what will happen, but my parents love him and his family. I couldn't be happier."

And she also couldn't be more open to risky adventures with her new boyfriend. "Andy came to L.A. to visit and dragged my parents and me skydiving. He'd done it before and so had my parents. I was so scared, I thought, 'I'll get up there and the pilot will have to take me back down.' But Andy jumped and I followed him." However young Moore seems for her fast-track success, her description of what it was like to jump out of an airplane takes care of any doubt about her readiness for the Big Ride that Hollywood offers: "It's the greatest feeling ever. I know it's dangerous but I'm addicted."

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