Celebrity Parade With Jeanne Wolf

May 2, 2008 — -- Emile Hirsch

Emile Hirsch puts the pedal to the metal in "Speed Racer." He felt like a hero, fearless on the track. Behind the wheel on a giant hydraulic lift, Hirsch didn't have to fake looking mean.

Emile told Parade, "The g-force power of it can break your neck if they turn it up high enough. This thing gives you whiplash. I mean, it's just brutal. And so, all my anger in the film, all those scenes that I'm angry, I'm actually filled with rage that I'm even there."

Emile reveals he's been a fan of Speed Racer since he was a kid. "Believe it or not when I was six years old, I would wake up everything morning. Pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, pour a bunch of root beer in it, because we never had milk at my house for some reason, and get a total sugar rush and watch 'Speed Racer.'"

And Hirsch also connected with what was driving speed to be the best against some tough odds. "Just the need to do the right thing, you know. And to keep his integrity and to keep the bad guys in check. I mean it's just such a wonderful motivation. It's such a pure motivation for a character. I really responded to that part about speed racer. He's not one of these horrible heroes that's so flawed and such a jerk and he has to overcome his own pompousness in order to do the right thing. Speed's a good guy. And the rest of the world is just trying to take him down and trying to take his family down. He's just trying to do the right thing."

Michelle Monahan

Michelle Monahan loved co-starring with Patrick Dempsey in "Made Of Honor." She reveals you don't have to really be in love with a hunky co-star to fake a little romance on the screen. It's all about having fun.

Monaghan told Parade, "If we get along and we can laugh – if I can laugh with a co-star, I'm immediately, like I'm in. That's all I need is just to be able to have a good time. So for me that's basically all it takes. I don't need to be physically attracted to them."

Surprisingly, Monahan finds being funny on the screen tougher than exploring her emotional side in a drama. "To be honest, I find comedy more challenging than drama. In preparing for a drama, you develop your character and you know what you want to achieve over the course of a film. But, I find in comedy, you can't really prepare to be funny. You just sort of have to be open on the day to really just try anything to achieve whatever you need to do to make somebody laugh. I'm not a comedian. I'm kind of an actor doing a comedy."