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Emma Roberts is opening up about one of her past roles she would want to reprise as an adult.
The now 33-year-old actress made her acting debut at just nine years old in the movie Blow and since then, has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows.
During a recent interview, Emma revealed one childhood role that she would like to reprise to play an adult version of.
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“I always joke that I want to do grown-up Nancy Drew,” she told Cosmopolitan. “Where is she now? Like maybe she’s a little bit fallen off the tracks and needs to be set back.”
Emma starred in the 2007 Nancy Drew movie, which she she started filming when she was 14 years old and finished when she was 15. She also opened up about auditioning for the film and learning you could adapt books into movies at a young age.
“I loved the Nancy Drew books growing up. I remember buying ‘Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock’ at a flea market with my mom when I was a kid, and I had such a vision of Nancy Drew,” Emma told Cosmo.
“When I auditioned for it, they were like, ‘Look, you’re probably not going to get the part, you’re a little on the younger side, and da da da.’ I remember going to the Gap and buying an Argyle sweater and a headband—this whole outfit. I was like, ‘This is who Nancy Drew is—I know who she is,’” she continued.
“I ended up getting the part, and it was definitely something that drove my literary sense in movies and TV shows that I would later do,” Emma said. “I remember being like, ‘Wait, you can read a book and turn it into a movie—how do you do that?’ That was kind of a mind-blowing moment for me at 14 turning 15.”
If you missed it, in that same interview Emma reacted to Britney Spears‘ former assistant naming her to play Britney in a biopic.
Earlier this summer, Emma and her boyfriend got engaged!