Former Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes started her journey in Hollywood as a child, and soon fame followed as she grew up and started doing more films. The actress is most famous for her movie She’s the Man, but the film once plunged Bynes into deep depression. Scroll below to know more.
Amanda’s acting career started with Nickelodeon’s All That and its spin-off, The Amanda Show. The actress also appeared in Big Fat Liar and What a Girl Wants. As an adult, her 2006 movie She’s the Man is one of her breakthrough movies. Bynes was praised for her performance. In 2007, she starred in Hairspray, for which the actress was nominated at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Things went downhill because of her substance abuse and mental health problems. She was in conservatorship for almost a decade and retired from acting in 2010. Bynes announced her new profession as a manicurist last year.
Returning to Amanda Bynes’s most popular movie, She’s the Man- it was a romantic comedy teen sports film. It featured Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsay, Vinnie Jones, and David Cross in crucial roles. The film was directed by Andy Fickman and inspired by William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
The story revolves around a teenager, Viola Hastings [played by Bynes], who enters her brother’s boarding school in his place. Viola pretends to be a boy in order to play on the boys’ soccer team. However, in an interview with Paper magazine once, Bynes admitted feeling horrible after watching herself in this film for the first time.
She recalled, “When the movie came out, and I saw it, I went into a deep depression for 4-6 months because I didn’t like how I looked when I was a boy.” She explained watching herself dressed as a man was “a super strange and out-of-body experience. It just really put me into a funk.”
Her substance abuse garnered a different reaction from people to the movie Easy A. She reportedly hated how she looked on screen and eventually left acting.
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