This article explores the career of Amanda Bynes, focusing on her transition from Nickelodeon children's programming to teen rom-coms and musicals. It highlights her notable work, including the film 'Big Fat Liar', and acknowledges her current focus on creative pursuits outside of acting.
Amanda Bynes was just about everywhere in the late 1990s and early 2000s thanks to her presence on Nickelodeon , but not all of her best movies and TV shows were part of the children’s network. Nickelodeon certainly provided Bynes with her big break thanks to appearances in the children’s sketch comedy series All That, but she also branched out into teen rom-coms and even musicals as she got older.
While Muniz is the star of this movie, Bynes is great in the supporting role. She gets to quietly pull him back from the edge, show off her own skills, and play a slightly more mature role than she played on Nickelodeon. It’s the perfect transitional movie for her. Filmed on location at Rollins College and the University of Central Florida in Florida, the movie transplanted the story of Snow White, here renamed Sydney, to the college campus. Sydney initially heads to college with the intention of following in her mother’s footsteps, specifically, pledging her sorority.
Piper is such a different role for Bynes, who had already proven herself accomplished at physical comedy at a very young age. Her expressive style of performing isn’t seen here, but the audience can still hear her enthusiasm in her voice. The movie sees Bynes play Viola, a teenage girl pursuing playing soccer at a collegiate level. When the girls' team is cut at her school, she and her friends attempt to play for the boys' team, but they are refused by the coach and the players. Viola decides to disguise herself as her brother Sebastian, taking his place at boarding school when he asks her to cover for him while he is in England with his band.
The movie follows Bynes as the teenage Daphne, who discovers her father is a British aristocrat. Her mother had been tricked into leaving him when she was pregnant with Daphne 17 years earlier. As Daphne takes the chance to fly to meet him, her world is turned upside down by the societal rules she does not quite understand and the potential stepmother and stepsister she could end up with.
Though the show was abruptly canceled after three seasons when Bynes left Nickelodeon to pursue different roles, it’s a great showcase of her talent. Bynes is in nearly every scene in the series, the face in the middle of every sketch, and this is the series that helped to earn Bynes comparisons to Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and even Eddie Murphy.
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