With today’s release of Chasing Liberty the thoughts of a nation have once again turned to Mandy Moore. We thought it was time for a Mandy-update.

Mandy gets naked!
First off, we have to squash the rumor that Mandy gets naked in Chasing Liberty. Apparently, there are a couple of close calls, but before all you one-handed surfers start rushing to the multiplex, let’s hear from Mandy herself. The following is from an interview with the Toronto Sun:

"Well, you know that wasn’t me,” Moore says, her voice rising to sound insistent. “No! No! No! That was a body double. The poor girl, too.” The river, Moore says, was filthy. “The girl just took off her clothes and jumped in the water and was splashing and stuff. I was very thankful that there was someone willing to do that for me because I’m a pretty modest girl, obviously, and pretty hygienic. I was like, ‘I don’t even want to put a toe in the water.’ “

Another scene showed the real Moore letting a towel drop away as the camera watches from a discreet angle. “Taking the towel off? It was a little weird, a little weird. Obviously, I was wearing something underneath (a tube top), but it’s odd. You grow comfortable around people because you’ve been around them for weeks and they’ve done many movies and they understand that it’s just part of the job. But even just that insinuation—like there’s nothing there—it’s weird. I don’t want anyone seeing me like that.

Will she ever get a role in a film that will truly spotlight her natural… talents?

“I will sit here right now and say that I will never do nudity, ever,” said Mandy. “That’s how I feel right now and I’m pretty secure in saying that’s how I’ll feel, period.”

Mandy to star in thriller

Many of her fans have wondered if Mandy will forever be relegated to roles in stupid teen movies It now seems that her career is about to take another turnn. According to Variety, she has signed on to star in her first thriller, tentatively titled “Au Pair.” Mandy will play a teenager taking care of two kids who encounter evil doings. The film is described as The Hand that Rocks the Cradle in reverse.

Next up for Mandy is a role in John Turturro’s musical Romance and Cigarettes and a cameo appearance in Wes Craven’s troubled werewolf flick Cursed.