My favorite colors are red, black, green, yellow, purple and silver. I live in New York. The cutest guy alive is Denzel Washington!!!
How My Acting Began: I was at the U.S. Open in 1988 with my dad. This lady saw me. Her name was Hope Hall. She told my dad I should get into the business. She gave my dad a number to call. It was from the agency she worked for. For a long time he didn't call. But finally he did and that's how it all began.
Why I wanted to be in "THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB": I thought the BSC movie would be a fun experience. I read the books so I knew my character well. I thought Jessi would be a neat person to play. Jessi is an 11 year old Afro-American girl who is working to be the top prima ballerina. Her best friend is Mallory Pike.
What happens in the BSC Movie: The BSC friends start a summer camp. But it seems to be making everyone act weird. Kristy is forgetting things. Mary Anne is keeping secrets. Logan and Cokie could be getting acquainted. Dawn could be losing her best friend. Stacey falls in love but keeps her age a secret. Claudia might flunk science. And Mrs. Haberman is having a fit! Can they get their act together in time?
Why I liked making the movie: I liked all the people and coming to California and making new friends. I'm the youngest baby-sitter on the set. I had my 10th birthday while we were working and I was kind of gloomy. I just bought myself presents all day and I was like 'nobody's gonna remember a birthday,' maybe Stacey who plays my best friend. But I didn't think anybody would remember my birthday.
I get in the van and we ride up to my trailer and I'm like 'oh, brother,' and then I open my trailer door and there's, like, balloons all over the trailer floor and then everybody's heads come in, it's like a perfect movie, yelling "Happy Birthday!" and I'm like "oh my goodness" and they got me lots of presents.
Melanie is nice, she's a good director, because she's demanding and she knows what she wants, she knows what time we have to do it by and sometimes we might go over that time but we still usually get a lot of things done.
[Ms. Harris' credits include Spike Lee's "Crooklyn," "The Piano Lesson," for Hallmark/CBS, the first episode of "I'll Fly Away," 5 seasons of "Sesame Street" as well as appearing on "Law & Order."]
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