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"   The poster for Killing Bono, which opens today.  Killing Bono\u2014the movie based on Neil McCormick&amp;#039;s memoir, Killing Bono: I Am Bono&amp;#039;s Doppelganger\u2014covers U2\u2032s first ten years, up until the release of The Joshua Tree album. The movie plays like a comedy of errors, chronicling how Neil and his brother Ivan repeatedly miss the mark while their childhood friends Paul Hewson and David Evans\u2014you may know them as Bono and The Edge\u2014find world-wide fame.  The movie, which hits US theaters today, stars Krysten Ritter as Neil&amp;#039;s love interest (who also happens to be the brothers&amp;#039; manager, Gloria). We wanted to know what it was like to play a girl in such a boy&amp;#039;s world, so we caught up with Ritter to get her take on the legendary Irish band and talk about her own rock star ambitions. ELLE: What was your first U2 moment?KR:  I was eighteen-years-old. I was dating a musician and he taught me how to play the rift from &amp;quot;Gloria&amp;quot; on guitar. That was a great introduction to U2\u2014coincidentally, my character&amp;#039;s name is Gloria in the film. ELLE: Do you still play guitar?KR: I&amp;#039;ve always fancied myself a rock star. Then, I realized I didn&amp;#039;t like playing live for people. It was more the lifestyle that I found romantic. My ex-boyfriend was a musician and he would have to tour; it&amp;#039;s so dirty and you stay up late. I got a little disenchanted after that. I play music now, but it&amp;#039;s for fun. I&amp;#039;m too girly to be a rock star. ELLE: How&amp;#039;d you feel about the 80s look you rocked in the movie?KR: My god, that hair! I felt like the costume designer [Lorna Marie Mugan] really captured the look of European 80&amp;#039;s. The stuff she got from thrift stores was super authentic\u2014the highest hemlines and waistlines you&amp;#039;ve ever seen. Those shapes\u2014those 80&amp;#039;s high waist, tight, skinny, long stuff\u2014work for my figure so I liked that silhouette. I&amp;#039;ve kind of always looked a little 80&amp;#039;s I think, but I like 90\u2032s style. I&amp;#039;m all about Winona Ryder and Reality Bites stuff, but, I love an 80&amp;#039;s day. Those high-waisted stretchy skirts? I could wear those for days. ELLE: Is there anything else you&amp;#039;d resurrect from that period?KR: I miss shoulder pads! Not a big, giant shoulder pad but a good shoulder pad makes your waist look tiny. It just gives a great shape.       ELLE: At what point did you decide on your bangs?KR: They just got stuck there. When I was in high school, I started modeling and they cut my hair short. I had short, Mia Farrow hair. Every time I try to let them grow I&amp;#039;ll get a job or a photo shoot where they&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;Oh, we love you for your bangs.&amp;#039; This summer I was doing a play and I tried to grow them out, but I couldn&amp;#039;t see and I was like `What am I trying to prove?&amp;#039;. Honestly, it&amp;#039;s a lack of time to grow them out. ELLE: Are you more like the film&amp;#039;s optimistic McCormick or pragmatic McCormick?KR: I&amp;#039;m a combination of both things. I&amp;#039;m hungry and wild-eyed, but also pragmatic and very serious about work. I work really hard\u2014if I didn&amp;#039;t do that I wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to sleep at night. However, when there&amp;#039;s a giant billboard or something up, I&amp;#039;m the first one standing in front of it saying, `Take my picture with my billboard!&amp;#039; I think it&amp;#039;s important to be excited and never get too comfortable and really appreciate everything. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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