Simpson Puts up Her DUKES

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2005

BlackFilm.com had a chance to talk with Jessica Simpson during filming of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD.

Simpson told them she wanted the part because "It was important for me to not go so far away from my persona and what people already knew me as and eventually I go there in acting but for my first role I just didn't want it to be too farfetched and I just thought it was an amazing character and I wasn't alive when Dukes of Hazzard was around (on TV), but I did see all the reruns and I'm from the South and the accent sort of came natural and it's something that as an all-American girl I wanted to keep."

When asked about her wardrobe Jessica told them, "Oh my gosh. I tried on so many jeans. You can't even imagine how jeans I tried on for this movie, but most of them were jeans that we just cut off and made them as short as we wanted to, which is probably more than I would wear."

Click here for the full interview.