Thanks to Jen for the heads up..

After finding enormous success on the smash TV show The OC, RACHEL BILSON heads into the world of big screen blockbusters with Doug Liman’s highly anticipated sci-fi thriller JUMPER, where she stars as the tentative love interest of a conflicted man (Hayden Christensen) with the power to teleport. BY DANNY PEARY

Science fiction movie fans have been anticipating Jumper for a long time. Why has the film taken so long to be released?
“The movie started with different male and female leads, so they shot for awhile with them. Then they restarted with Hayden Christensen as David. Then a couple of months later they restarted with me. So that added time. Also Doug Liman kept coming up with new ideas and things would change, so we’d take time to shoot them.”

Did he tell you why you were cast, replacing Teresa Palmer, another hot actress?
“I actually met her, ironically, while she was shooting it in Toronto. She is a really sweet and gracious girl. I knew Doug because he’d worked on The O.C. Doug saw me as the college girl who is attracted to Zach Brach in my first film, The Last Kiss, in a theatre at the time they were thinking of recasting. That inspired him to think of me as Millie. We’d had a great relationship ever since the television show; he knew we worked well together and he trusted me. That all played into it, but I still had to read with Hayden so Doug could see how we worked together. So I flew up for a day and read a few scenes with Hayden, and the next day I was offered the part.”

Did you and Hayden have chemistry from the start?
“I hope so. That’s what Doug saw. Hayden and I worked well off each other. He’s a really good actor and a good guy. We were very comfortable with each other so I think that really helped our characters, who were very close.”

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