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" Beware the Gonzo, out on DVD January 24, tells the story of Eddie &amp;quot;Gonzo&amp;quot; Gilman who starts an underground movement to give a voice to anyone who feels like an outcast. Gonzo&amp;#039;s archenemy is Gavin Reilly, played by Jesse McCartney. In the movie, Jesse is a bit of a jerk, but in real life, he&amp;#039;s a total sweetie. Jesse sat down with Seventeen to tell us about Beware the Gonzo, his future plans, and how a girl can win him over with his new scent, Wanted! Seventeen:I know that you&amp;#039;ve been acting and working forever. Have you had sort of a normal school experience? Jesse McCartney: Yeah. I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise. But you know, I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school. 17: How would you classify yourself in high school? You were an athlete. Can you relate to your character? JM: I can relate to Gavin. The biggest difference between Gavin and I was that I got along with everyone in high school. I never really belonged to any particular clique or stereotypical group, like it is portrayed in the film. As a baseball guy, I was friends with all the jocks, but I also love music and theater, so I was friends with all the drama kids as well. 17: What&amp;#039;s your favorite thing about him? What did you latch onto? JM: What I loved about Gavin in particular and what you don&amp;#039;t see in most high school, teenage movies is that he&amp;#039;s very smart, and though he is the jock and he&amp;#039;s a bit of a wise ass and he&amp;#039;s very cocky, he&amp;#039;s also very smart, and it allows him to be that way because he can kind of talk himself out of anything, and you don&amp;#039;t really see that a lot in a typical high school film, and I think it was a cool addition to the character. Yes he was privileged, he was the golden boy, but he did kind of earn it because he&amp;#039;s a smart kid. I think that&amp;#039;s what makes the battle between the protagonist and the antagonist so captivating for the audience. 17: I feel like the core of the movie is feeling like you don&amp;#039;t belong or feeling less than on some level. Have you ever felt that way? JM: Oh, absolutely. I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate. Given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn&amp;#039;t really agree with. At a certain point at that age, you start to question yourself, like &amp;quot;Is this really what I should be doing? Should I really just be focusing on my books and my academics so I can, you know, lead the normal life?&amp;quot; I had a different situation, but of course, I dealt with the same pressures that anyone else has had to deal with in high school and had to sort of battle my way through. I think what got me through was that I was very confident in what I loved to do and who I was as a person. At a certain point, I realized I was not going to care what anyone else thinks and that was what motivated me each and every day. 17: Where do you dig in to have that kind of confidence?? JM: I was aware of my surroundings and tried the best I could to ground myself with those who lifted me up and motivated me and didn&amp;#039;t really care, rather than those who would put me down. It sounds so clich\u00E9 to say, you know, putting it in words now that I think about it, but it&amp;#039;s true. I think the better the people you surround yourself with, the more uplifting it is and the easier it is, you know, because it&amp;#039;s a rough time in high school for anyone. I don&amp;#039;t care if you&amp;#039;re the most popular kid in school and everyone loves you, everyone has their own insecurities and fears. I think if you surround yourself with the people who care about you for you, you&amp;#039;re going to have a much easier time getting through those four years. 17: Can you talk us through what you get nervous about? Or sometimes feel insecure about, self-conscious about? JM:I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I&amp;#039;m always like, &amp;quot;Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?&amp;quot; I get insecure about things from time to time. I think everybody to a certain degree wants to be likeable and assured that what they&amp;#039;re doing is appreciated, and when it isn&amp;#039;t, it&amp;#039;s really disconcerting and kind of discouraging. I can sometimes be insecure about the things that I put out there, like career-wise, because I want people to like it. At the end of the day, that&amp;#039;s the reason I have a job. 17: What advice would you give to your 17-year-old self? What do you wish you had known back then? JM: I would say just to not care what anybody thinks and to really pursue what it is that you have in your heart and in your head and try not to let all the haters get in your way because they will, and there&amp;#039;s a lot of them out there. Stand your own ground and just know that at the end of the day, those people probably aren&amp;#039;t going to go where you&amp;#039;re going to go. 17: The movie&amp;#039;s awesome, and we love seeing you in all these different roles, but are there plans for more music? Will we hear more Jesse McCartney soon?? JM: Yeah, absolutely. I&amp;#039;m still in the studio finishing up this album and hoping to put something out early next year, some time next year. There&amp;#039;s been a lot of stuff going on with my record label, unfortunately, just a lot of changes going on, and it&amp;#039;s just a matter of time. I spoke with everybody, and we&amp;#039;re hammering away in the studio. We&amp;#039;re just about finished. Still have some mixing to do and a couple last minute edits, but there will definitely be some more music in the future for all the fans in the upcoming year. 17: Is there anything you can tell us about the sound? Is it the same? Did you do a lot of the writing again? JM: Yeah, I did. I did 90 percent of the writing on this album. It&amp;#039;s based on what I went through since the last album, particularly in my love life, but also just kind of what I&amp;#039;m going through in my personal life in general. It&amp;#039;s skewed a little more R&amp;amp;amp;B and dance-driven, somewhere in the middle of that urban and dance lane. Every track for the most part is very infectious, and if you enjoy pop, R&amp;amp;amp;B music, you&amp;#039;re really going to like this one. 17: The last thing I want to talk about is the fragrance, Wanted. Why a fragrance for women instead of men? JM: I think that it came down to that no one has really ever done a fragrance for a woman as a man. In the celebrity world or the music world, there hasn&amp;#039;t been a fragrance that has been done for a woman. Ninety-five percent of my fan base is women. At some point in the future I probably will do one for men, but I wanted to give something to the fans that they could have every day. I think that it&amp;#039;s kind of important. Music and fashion, they all kind of go hand in hand. It&amp;#039;s just a part of the business that I wanted to tap into, and I think this was a great outlet. 17: Is scent a really important part of attraction to you? JM: I think scent is one of the most important. Absolutely. Scent has the power to mark a place in time. It&amp;#039;s one of your biggest memory sensories. This scent definitely takes me somewhere. When a woman smells good, it&amp;#039;s good. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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