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GIRL: Now it says in your Bio that you realised your love for acting at age 15, what was it that helped this passion come forth? Any defining moment?
Shane: For me it came from being at high school. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I played basketball, I played a bunch of sports, I was an artist - but they were all things you have to be extremely good at to succeed. I happened to do some commercials and I had always been a huge movie fan and finally it just clicked for me. I was in the right city to embark on this kind of career and I just gave it a whirl. I didn't work for two years and I used that as an incentive to try to prove myself. When it started to work out well I was really happy.
GIRL: What did you want to be before you decided you wanted to be an actor?
Shane: I would have studied Psychology, but I pretty much knew I wanted to be an actor.
GIRL: If you weren't acting, do you think you would be pursuing a full-time music career with your group JOHNNY WAS?
Shane: Yes - we've been playing around for two years now, this has always been a passion of mine and if this acting thing wasn't going well we'd probably be touring around.
GIRL: Do you get much time to play with the band?
Shane: Yes because most of the stuff we've been playing; well I did 3 years on a show "Once and Again" and that was based in LA, so we played in LA a lot; we didn't get to really travel much but it did fit in well with what I was doing with the show.
GIRL: Now you have been described as having a mesmerizingly raspy voice and genuine handsomeness? What do you say to comments and descriptions like that?
Shane: Really? Wow! I have never heard that description but um - that's pretty awesome I guess. I have always been told I have a raspy voice but I don't necessarily think it is sexy, I don't really think about it. You know when you hear your voice played back it sounds like hell?! When I hear my voice played back I am embarrassed.
GIRL: How do you feel about being idolised?
Shane: That, I haven't really thought too much about unless the question is brought up. It's very cool, but it's hard to believe that people would want to idolise me and I don't know of anyone particularly that does. However I am very much in appreciation of it. For me, my idols were and always have been my parents so I always try to "keep it there" then it doesn't get blown out of proportion.
GIRL: Are you ok with being a role model?
Shane: Being a role model is tough. It's tough because everyone is their own person, we all have our own faults you know, so it is hard to think that someone would consider having me as a role model when I know all of my faults (laughing). But I did the same thing. Again role models for me are my parents so I try to be the best I can; if I am going to be a role model for somebody I try to be my best in and for the public.
Shane: Definitely. I think I would have period. Now after shooting the film, it's part of my life. If that were to occur [knock on wood it never does] but if it were, I would do exactly the same kinds of things.
GIRL: When I was at the screening of the film I noticed other Media nodding their heads or mumbling to each other obviously identifying with particular aspects of the film such as peer pressure. Did you take anything away, any messages, from being involved with this film "A Walk to Remember"?
Shane: Besides the experience of being in the film, of working with Mandy and the Director Adam, and all the other cast members - it became very much like a family down there - it was kind of depressing when the movie was over. We shot in North Carolina and we all had to go back to wherever we were from. But we kind of took out of it a very strong sense of a different kind of family. So I guess that's the message I took from working on the film.
GIRL: What attracted you to working on "A Walk To Remember"?
Shane: Basically the character and what he goes through. I am also from a divorced family, I know what it's like, maybe not as harshly as some peoples experiences. The fact that he plays a tough guy, he doesn't know where he is going, he's from a small town in the South (and I was born in a small town in the South) and he finds this person who basically makes him want to live, helped me be attracted to taking on the role in the film.