While promoting her new, straight-to-DVD film, Van Wilder: Freshman Year, Kristin Cavallari has shared everything from how ten fast-food related pounds practically destroyed Van Wilder's lingerie scene to her theory on love at first sight ("I can always tell if I get butterflies"). But one issue kept popping up in her interviews: how her ironclad two-season contract for MTV's The Hills would affect her acting career.
Since leaving Laguna Beach, Cavallari has had a few feature film roles, as a hot, popular spring-breaker in Spring Breakdown and a hot, popular volleyball-player in Green Flash, where she co-starred with David Charvet and Jaleel White. But what she really wants is to emulate Cameron Diaz's career with some box office smashes and a few dark indies. So why sign on for The Hills, aside from the reported $63,000 per episode?
She told The New York Post:
It was a really hard choice for me. MTV's been asking me to do it for years. I 100% want to be an actress, but with Van Wilder: Freshman Year coming out and a few other movies, I thought this would be an exciting way for my fans to reconnect with me because they haven't seen what I've been up to since Laguna Beach.
Her fans could have also reconnected with her via a Teen People cover story or her Twitter feed, but she is living with the consequences of her mistakes. In the same interview, she said:
"I haven't been able to audition for anything since, contractually, MTV won't let me. But I'll tell you this -- I've gotten a lot more phone calls about going on other shows since. ... But doing The Hills has made me want to act so badly. I need a challenge and kinda feel like The Hills is taking me a step backwards. But that just makes me want to act that much more and try that much harder."
So, for all of those Kristin Cavallari mega-fans who prefer her dramatic chops to her MTV reality work or Nivea Anti-Cellulite endorsements, you'll just have to wait another two years.
ยท Kristin Cavallari: 'I Want To Be Seen As A Serious Actress' [NYP]