It was kind of reminiscent of the beach party scene in Princess Diaries, come to think of it.

This is going to be timeless.'Į!: What's your favorite memory from filming?ĮVD: I actually turned 18 when we first started shooting and I had a birthday party on the beach in Malibu. The whole cast came, which was pretty fun. But when I went to the premiere and actually saw the finished product, I was like, 'Wow, this is a really solid film.

Did you have any idea it was going to be such a huge deal?ĮVD: I knew going into it that it was going to be a proper film with director Garry Marshall, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway, et cetera. 2 this month-sat down with E! for a rare look into his life then and now.Į!: The Princess Diaries was your first major movie role.

So what the heck happened? The 38-year-old-married to real estate guru Angela von Detten and expecting baby no. His last acting credit was a voiceover in 2010's Toy Story 3. After a string of unremarkable guest roles from 2003 to 2008- Charmed, 8 Simple Rules, Malcolm in the Middle and Bones-he just kind of…disappeared. OK, almost.) In between, he voiced Sid in Toy Story, Flynt in Tarzan and Lawson on Recess. (He gave Mia Thermopolis her first freakin' foot pop. Erik von Detten was your first crush, a Tiger Beat editor's dream come true and 'the sexual awakening for a whole generation of girls, gays and theys,' as one Twitter user so aptly put it.įrom the mid-90s to the early 2000s, he captured hearts in Escape to Witch Mountain, Brink! and The Princess Diaries. Teens everywhere had his poster plastered over the walls of their bedrooms. He was the epitome of a Disney dreamboat: The baby blue eyes, the smoldering gaze, the somehow always perfectly gelled back blonde hair. Before there was Zac Efron and Harry Styles-hell, before the Internet boyfriend was even part of our accepted lexicon-there was Erik von Detten.

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