 | Saturday, May 28, 2005, 7:22 PM EST.
'Joan of Arcadia' Star Tamblyn Pledges to 'Sisterhood'
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Smart, sarcastic, rebellious, creative—"she definitely marches to her own beat," says Amber Tamblyn, the Emmy-nominated lead of the CBS series "Joan of Arcadia," cast as Tibby in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. In contrast to her friends, Tibby's summer plans revolve around working shifts at the local discount store and babysitting her little sister. "As the only one of the group who doesn't have travel plans for the summer, she's focusing on other people who, in her estimation, aren't going anywhere with their lives either, and decides to spend the summer working on her video, the Suckumentary, which is just her interviewing people in town in order to show how pathetic their lives are. It's her way of coping and venting her anger."
"Not only is Tibby angry," offers producer Debra Martin Chase, "she's actually very invested in being angry and miserable and refusing to connect with people." What she lacks is an appreciation of how rich life can be on a moment to moment basis, and how to mine the good.
Tibby needs something to shake her out of her entrenched opinions and that will happen in a most unexpected way, through a chance encounter with an extraordinary girl named Bailey (played by Jenna Boyd) who views life in an entirely different way and for very compelling reasons. Says Kwapis, "When Bailey offers to be Tibby's assistant on the video project, little does Tibby realize that Bailey is going to collaborate on a much deeper level."
Tamblyn was the first of the quartet to be cast, "which immediately set the bar very high," says Kwapis. "Amber has a keen intelligence, a sharp wit and cynical point of view on things yet, like Tibby, she's not all edge. She has an equal amount of heart, and was able to bring all these layers to the part, because it's important to see there's more to Tibby than even she herself is aware."
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