Mandy Moore Hopes To Change Her Typecast In ‘Saved’

With ‘Saved!’, Mandy Moore joins the long list of stars who’ve come to Sundance to shred their image. In the movie — a send-up of Christian life in middle America — Moore plays the Bible-thumping villain of the piece, a self-righteous do-gooder who’s desperate to “save” — i.e. convert — the sinners in her school. “I’ve always played the girl that gets the guy, which I’m very over,” Moore tells Kevin Williamson of the Calgary Sun. “I don’t get any guy here — nothing. It was fun for me playing against type, if you will. I was so weirded out and excited that (the filmmakers) would have even thought of me. And to be part of such an amazing cast was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”