I always wanted to be perfect when I was younger.' She was like, 'You have way too much energy, you can not sit still in the classroom.' But, I was kind of a kiss ass to my teacher. I think that's why my second grade teacher sent me to audition for the opera. I loved music and I loved musicals and I just walked around singing all the time and pretending to play drums on my desk. I was short and kind of pudgy, no one believes that, but it's true. We have pictures, which I hope will never surface. So on a dare, my friend said, 'We should get that reaction out of more people.' She was like, 'Lets run down Madison avenue without our shoes on soaking wet in our bikinis in the middle of winter.' So I did it with a bunch of my friends. We ordered Chinese takeout and when the delivery boy came to the door we were like in our bikinis in the middle of winter, soaking wet. 'When I was 15, my friends were having a pool party in Manhattan in an indoor pool.

Everything around me is kind of a little hyper-normal sometimes, but I still do my laundry and make my bed and stuff. 'I push myself out of my comfort zone a lot of time in my work, but not necessarily in my life. Some of my best friends came from making this film, and half of them are staying at my house right now.'

We were on such a limited budget that we didn't have trailers and just hung out on set. But, by the time that we shot those scenes, everyone in the cast had all become really close. 'Doing my first sex scene was definitely awkward, especially with a bunch of crew members watching. I mean, there are moments of awkward funniness in life and sex when you're young in high school. It's not like explicitly focusing on boobs and other body parts. 'I think the sexuality in this movie is used to show kids discovering themselves.

's Jeanne Wolf found out why Rossum is downplaying her first foray into big screen passion. In the film, Rossum gets her first sex scene playing a high school student who loses her virginity to the class bad boy. Now, she's exploring new territory in the very low-budget Dare. Emmy Rossum has sung with the Phantom of the Opera, gone down with the ship in Poseidon and faced the end of the world in The Day After Tomorrow.

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