Chad Michael Murray remains to be gushing over “A Cinderella Story” love curiosity Hilary Duff: ‘She glows’

It's A Cinderella Story, Hilary simply say sure.

It's been 21 years, however Chad Michael Murray remains to be head over heels for Hilary Duff, his costar within the swooning teen romance. "Hilary's superior. Should you've ever met Hilary or if you happen to've ever seen her even strolling down the road, she glows," Murray lately told PEOPLE.

Murray stated that Duff "has an an aura that she will stroll right into a room and also you simply go proper to her. She simply has this magnetic presence, and she will mild up a room… That's why she's been so profitable for therefore a few years. She was superior and I simply keep in mind her and her staff and all people, like, her trainer, they have been so cool, so good. All people was one of the best. Her mother, the entire staff, all people I received together with over there."

Murray said unambiguously, "I really like this film" – nothing to miss given the preponderance of former little one and teenage stars who look again with visceral loathing (or a minimum of cringe) at previous roles they could not have chosen as adults.

"It's in my prime two. I don't know if it's one or two, however this film felt like a highschool subject journey, as a result of we have been simply all associates," he stated. Murray defined that he managed to get his then roommate and greatest buddy, J.D. Pardo, forged as his character Austin Ames' greatest buddy. "You simply make relationships that, you recognize, they’re superior. You're watching Jennifer Coolidge simply be the powerhouse that she is. Gosh, all people on that film. I inform you, they hit a candy spot."

Murray remembers taking pictures A Cinderella Story with Duff as an expertise as near a real-life Cinderella story as a movie manufacturing's more likely to ever get. "We have been two children having enjoyable making a giant film. I don't suppose I ever anticipated it to be what it was, you recognize?"

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Murray performs Austin because the outwardly well-liked however inwardly depressing inventive savant compelled to play the a part of a typical soccer jock. Unknowingly, he strikes up an nameless on-line relationship with Duff's Sam Montgomery, who's outwardly Austin's inverse, however equally depressing and artistic.

There are masks, ballgowns, a cellphone substitute for a glass slipper – every thing one would possibly count on of a mid-aughts replace to the enduring folks story. In fact there's romance, one thing that by no means prolonged off display screen, although Murray and Duff each dated costars on different tasks. However Duff did admit in 2016, "I positively had a crush on him. We had a number of kissing scenes within the film and I keep in mind feeling fairly nervous about that, however then we grew to become associates and I wasn't so nervous anymore."

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Duff and Murray have moved on to larger, brighter issues, with the previous showing within the lead function of How I Met Your Father and Murray lately reprising his function in Freakier Friday, the long-awaited sequel to Freaky Friday, starring Duff's one-time rival Lindsay Lohan.

However even with dozens of credit between him and A Cinderella Story, Murray stated it's nonetheless the movie followers quote at him essentially the most. "The quotes are often from Cinderella Story…I believe, 'Ready for you is like ready for rain on this drought' on a regular basis, that's one. 'It's you Peyton, the one I need standing subsequent to me.'"

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