Amy Bruckner – Funny Girl

Q.  What are the current projects that you are working on?

A.  I’m working on “Phil of the Future” right now and I just wrapped a movie with Martin Lawrence called Rebound.  I just recently did three episodes of “Malcolm in the Middle” and I’m also a voice on a Disney Channel series called “American Dragon.”

Q.  You recently starred in the movie Rebound.  What can you tell us about the movie and your character?

A.  The movie is about this basketball coach who has lead this college basketball team from nothing to this huge basketball team and they have won six years in a row.  He has an anger problem and it’s the last straw for the college basketball league and they take him out and he has one more chance to prove himself.  So, he looks everywhere for a place to get a job and he can’t so finally he goes back to his old middle school.  So, it’s just about him finding himself and his love for basketball and him interacting with this rag tag basketball team whose last score was like 86-0, us being 0.  I play one of the reporters, the school newspaper reporters, and we kind of tie the movie together in the way that if you don’t know what’s going on with the scene or if you are not sure what’s going on they have flashes of our newspaper.  Our characters become far more cool as the movie goes on and we’re sitting on the bench by the end of the movie.

Q.  What made you want to be a part of this project?

A.  You know I just kind of auditioned for it and I really loved the director and when they said I got the part, I was just ecstatic.  I love Martin Lawrence and also Horatio Sanz is in it.  So, I aspire to be one day on “Saturday Night Live” so I had a lot of questions for him of course.  It was so great working with them because anything you can learn from such great comedians is amazing.

Q.  Rebound features famed actor/comedian Martin Lawrence, what was it like getting to work with him?

A.  It was pretty amazing, I am a huge fan of his and he doesn’t really do a lot of you know PG or PG-13 movies.  He’s amazing to watch because he is such a good comedian and he just comes up with things on the spot and things at the end that he improvised that are so funny.  It’s really cool to watch him and one scene I was about to bust up laughing through the whole take, but luckily I could hold it in.

Q.  Do you have a most memorable moment from filming Rebound?

A.  There was a part where the basketball team dumps a cooler of Gatorade on Coach Roy and I guess it was only rehearsal and the boys did it anyways.  So, everybody started cracking up except for Martin and the wardrobe people were like “oh wow,” so it was really funny.

Q.  On the show “Phil of the Future,” you have such great comedic timing.  Does it come naturally to you or is it something that you have had to work at?

A.  Well like I said I’ve been lucky enough to be around these great comedians and the guys on the show actually, there is a man named JP and a standup comedian who plays my father, Greg Anton, and just being around them and just watching people like Ellen and Rosie O’Donnell and shows like “Arrested Development” you can watch and see what’s so funny on there and kind of take from that and learn what makes a joke funny.  Most of mine is just from observation, I just work hard and I try and throw things away, I love Megan Mullaly, she does comedy where she doesn’t push anything, she plays everything under instead of over the top, that’s where I kind of get my influence from.  It comes pretty naturally, I really enjoy it.

Q.  What is it like working working with such a diverse cast on the show “Phil of the Future”?

A.  You know Aly and I are like two years apart and Ricky, he’s just like my big brother, and my big sister in real life is only two years older than him.  I’m like his younger sister and Aly is my older sister, so we definitely connect in that way and Aly also has a little sister my age so we all get along really well.  It’s interesting because it’s always cool to learn from people older from you, learn from their mistakes and also what they have done really well.  Ricky is such a great role model, you know the things he does for charity and speaking at events, you know Make A Wish Foundation.  I love being on the set everyday.

Q.  Do you have a favorite project that you have worked on?

A.  Definitely “Phil” because I’m so close with all of the cast and all of the crew.  I love my character because when you are a thirteen/fourteen year old girl because you don’t get many chances to play such an interesting character like Pim.  She’s got all this stuff going on in her mind, she’s a girl who wants to dominate the world, she’s a little too smart for her own good, and when you’re my age all you can only get is like the sweet girl next door and the girl I play in Rebound is very sweet and a very normal girl, a little nerdy and so “Phil” is definitely my favorite project.

Q.  What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

A.  I like to hang out with friends, go to dance class, play my guitar, you know I try and relax a lot but my best friend and I always end up going to see movies.  We have a lot of fun going to the mall, doing teenage girl stuff, and I’m really into music, I love my I-Pod.

Q.  What is your latest obsession, are you into any particular sport, game, musical artist or book?

A.  I love the band The Killers, I listen to them everyday and the lead singer is so gorgeous.  I am listening to my I-Pod everywhere I go and people are like “oh, it’s attached to you!”  I don’t know what I would do without it, I probably would be sitting at my computer all day listening to music.

Q.  Is there any actor or actress that you’d love to work with in the future?

A.  I’d love to work with the cast of “Will and Grace,” they are so amazing.  Nicole Kidman or Renee Zellweger who is amazing at comedy and drama and of course Johnny Depp.

Q.  What would you like to say to your fans and supporters?

A.  Thank you so much, I wouldn’t be here without you and remember without you guys I would be nowhere.  If I ever don’t take the time to thank you guys, you can come hit me in the face.  You’re the only reason I’m doing anything at all, you’re the reason I keep working, the reason I am able to do what I am able to do.