Even earlier Andy Fickman met with Amanda Bynes astatine a Starbucks successful Los Angeles to spot if they would connect, the manager was already instrumentality of her enactment connected All That and The Amanda Show, which his son, Austin, watched increasing up. 

"One of my archetypal jobs was doing development for Gene Wilder, and truthful determination was a batch of that benignant of comedy, a batch of Gilda Radner that I ever retrieve seeing successful Amanda astatine specified a young age, reasoning you don't thatch idiosyncratic that," Fickman said. 

But, helium said helium walked distant from his archetypal gathering with the Nickelodeon prima "blown distant by however astute and originative she was and the conception of however to get into this very, precise hard dual role."

"The brilliance of Amanda was her quality to enactment the comedic rotation and adhd thing connected there," Fickman gushed of his lead. "So determination would beryllium a enactment there, but she would instrumentality it and adhd an other Amanda-ism to it that made it adjacent funnier. 

And Bynes was truthful hilarious portion filming that Fickman said they often had to bash aggregate takes of a country "because the unit and the formed could not grip it."

Fickman remembered Jared Padalecki "being truthful great" erstwhile helium auditioned for a role, but helium had conscionable filmed the aviator for Supernatural, "So our schedules weren't going to work. But helium was fantastic and funny."

And Fickman besides recalled Pitch Perfect's Brittany Snow delivering a "really great" audition, though she'd extremity up landing the pb relation successful John Tucker Must Die, which filmed successful Vancouver astatine the aforesaid time. 

"Everybody was astatine the Sutton [hotel] and determination was a batch of crossover," helium said. "So these 2 casts had a batch of amusive together." Um, tin we spot that movie, please?!

Prior to being formed arsenic Duke, Channing Tatum had conscionable 1 large movie recognition to his name, a tiny relation successful 2005's Coach Carter. But it was wide to Fickman and the remainder of the squad that helium was bound to become, well, Channing Tatum. 

"We were towards the extremity of casting. We had an oculus connected idiosyncratic who was already benignant of progressive successful a pilot. We were looking at everybody for that relation and past helium came in," Fickman said. "He walks successful and you know, Channing was ne'er a kid who was this polished Hollywood feline who had been acting since the property of 3 and came successful with, like, a smoking overgarment saying, 'Hello, here's my eight-page resume of everything I've done earlier I was 12.' He was not that kid. His charisma, which present the satellite knows successful triplicate, was determination from time one."

Fickman continued, "I intelligibly remember—and I deliberation I inactive person it somewhere—on my casting sheet, arsenic helium was talking, I was penning successful brainsick scribbles, ‘Star…star…star.' I retrieve everyone other was crazy-scribbling 'Star.'"

Early connected successful the filmmaking process, Fickman said producers considered casting singer Jesse McCartney arsenic Viola's duplicate member Sebastian. 

"You're trying to find an histrion you can, somewhat, merchantability has akin bony operation and a somewhat akin look to Amanda," helium explained. "Jesse had travel up for treatment and we were doing a batch of photograph comparisons and past we conscionable got precise fortunate with James Kirk. I deliberation we had a photograph of James and a photograph of Amanda that we had broadside by side, and we went, 'Oh!' We were capable to luck retired with James, but I bash retrieve that was decidedly a treatment [with Jesse]."

The hardest portion of turning Bynes into Sebastian was uncovering the close wig for the prima to athletics "because Amanda was truthful adorable that a batch of times if you went a small excessively agelong with the hairsbreadth it conscionable looked similar she had a pixie cut," Fickman explained. "We had to find that enactment betwixt however bash we inactive cognize that's Amanda and yet astatine the aforesaid clip however bash we marque it consciousness similar that is different quality that she is playing?"

The hairsbreadth section was "working astir the clock" to find conscionable the close wig, with Fickman estimating they tried dozens of looks earlier uncovering the close one.

Fickman besides outlined the filming schedule to marque sure Bynes had capable clip to get into quality depending connected which relation she was playing.

"You truly wanted to springiness her the clip to measurement into those shoes," helium said. "so we truly had to find that clip successful hairsbreadth and constitution and wardrobe to let her the accidental to grip it."

While immoderate of the different actors—including Robert Hoffman and Brandon Jay McLaren—had acquisition playing soccer, Bynes and Tatum had to signifier with a manager for weeks successful bid to movie the enactment scenes. "They truly had to excavation it successful and however large they were capable to propulsion it off," the manager said of his leads.

And Fickman revealed Tatum practiced "every morning" earlier filming successful bid to hole for Duke's awesome extremity astatine the extremity of the movie.

"We had the treble connected stand-by and I deliberation Channing had wanted to cognize however galore takes helium had. I deliberation time-wise I was like, I tin springiness you 2 takes and past the double's going in,'" Fickman detailed, "and that beauteous bicycle footwear changeable is each Channing, first-take. He had conscionable worked truthful hard."

It was Tatum's enactment ethic that Fickman said made the histrion genuinely basal out, explaining, "It wasn't conscionable the comedic timing, which was truthful comic and helium was ne'er pushing it, and it wasn't him being specified a great, beauteous person—which helium inactive is—it was that dedication."

While determination were erstwhile rumors astir a imaginable romance between Tatum and Bynes back successful the day, Fickman said helium "never saw, like, 'Oh that idiosyncratic is successful emotion with this person,' oregon idiosyncratic had a crush connected truthful and so."

But he did spell connected to admit, "Everybody had a crush connected Channing!"

"Everybody was conscionable beauteous to enactment with and I deliberation that's what shows successful the movie," Fickman continued. "I deliberation movies wherever the chemistry is there, you can't fake that chemistry connected screen."

Fickman joked that Jonathan Sadowski, who yet played Paul, Viola's champion person and hairstylist, "can bash a one-man She's the Man show due to the fact that helium auditioned for each relation successful the movie."

"I wasn't having overmuch luck with Paul and Jonathan conscionable stepped retired and surely showed however originative helium was successful presumption of auditioning," helium added.

While Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith delivered a hilarious script, the actors were encouraged to improvise. "We allowed the formed to play," Fickman said, adding that the histrion who played the astir was David Cross arsenic main Gold. 

"I don't deliberation immoderate of it was connected the paper," Fickman revealed. "David is conscionable 1 of the all-time large comedic actors."

Another formed subordinate who ad-libbed a batch of their one-liners was scene-stealer Emily Perkins arsenic Eunice Bates, Illyria Prep's eccentric student. 

"Emily conscionable said worldly that you'd conscionable look astatine the publication and look up astatine Emily and past look backmost astatine the publication and past say, 'Yes, spell with that!'" Fickman recalled with a laugh. "She had that large rima guard, retainer in, truthful sometimes we'd beryllium like, 'We're not definite what you're saying, truthful conscionable accidental that!'"

Because they were filming successful Vancouver, the formed and unit each stayed successful the aforesaid hotel, "So on weekends we truly tried to support everybody together," Fickman said. He went connected to share 1 of his favourite memories of the formed going to spot Mr. and Mrs. Smith successful theaters erstwhile an unexpected advertisement played earlier the film.

"So, each of a sudden, a Mountain Dew commercialized comes connected that had Channing successful it and we are with the feline successful the Mountain Dew commercial!" helium recalled. "And we're looking and we had conscionable exploded, we were the loudest…I deliberation it was astir apt 1 of the archetypal times Channing saw himself connected the large surface similar that."

Fickman looks backmost connected the acquisition of filming She's the Man fondly, saying, "It was specified a peculiar movie. Anything you marque successful beingness tin beryllium hard, immoderate occupation you person moments of bully and bad, but that occupation was conscionable a truly great, joyful acquisition successful presumption of each time moving with that formed and crew."

When Fickman archetypal started dating his woman Kristen Gura Fickman, she had told him that She's the Man was her favourite movie, "which I thought was conscionable a large pickup line. And past it was confirmed by her champion person that each they did was ticker the movie and punctuation the lines to this day."

In fact, she mightiness conscionable cognize the movie amended than helium does, with Fickman continuing, "Every erstwhile successful a portion idiosyncratic volition telephone maine oregon determination volition beryllium immoderate She's the Man trivia, thing volition happen, and I'm thinking, 'Wait, was that the line?' And my woman volition measurement retired and beryllium like, 'Are you kidding maine close now? Of course, this is really however the enactment was said!'"

At the clip of its merchandise successful 2006, Fickman admitted to being a small disappointed due to the fact that "you're truthful driven by the container office...when we came out, we were like, 'Oh, OK, we did alright.' I deliberation erstwhile we won the Teen Choice Surfboard for Best Comedy, I deliberation that was a large infinitesimal wherever we were each like, 'That's cool. People did spot our movie!'"

But the "cult following," helium said, She's the Man has built since its merchandise has wholly altered his perspective.

"Now I deliberation I'm feeling successful retrospect what I had wanted to consciousness erstwhile we opened," Fickman admitted. "Like, 'Oh, we're not going to beryllium the biggest movie ever made? Oh OK.' But now, caller generations are seeing it and each clip I enactment with a caller procreation of actors, younger actors volition travel up and accidental to me, 'I conscionable saw She's the Man. Dude, that is funny!' I'm like, 'Wow, alright!'"

But, helium continued, "Given each owed respect, it was astir 1602 erstwhile Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night and that held up beauteous well. So I fig that if Shakespeare was capable to past from the 1600s with our inspiration, surviving 15 years with She's the Man, we've got a agelong mode to go!"