32 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About "The Princess Diaries"
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1. Whitney Houston was one of the three producers of the film.
2. Houston also produced the sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
3. The original script was called The Princess of Tribeca and it was set in New York like the books, not San Francisco.
4. The Princess Diaries was Anne Hathaway's movie debut.
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5. Hathaway only had one audition for the movie, which took place during a 26-hour stopover in Los Angeles when she was flying to New Zealand to film an independent movie.
6. Despite not having time to do a screen test, Hathaway was cast on the basis of that audition.
7. During her audition Hathaway was asked to do a French accent, and at one point accidentally fell off her chair.
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