Selena Gomez Sees ‘How Big Disney Can Make People’ After Becoming ‘Another Cinderella’

While her friend Demi Lovato dreams of one day becoming a heavy-metal songstress, and the Jonas Brothers are hard at work breaking out of their teen mold, Selena Gomez has taken up a more traditional Disney pursuit: playing a modern-day Cinderella. The actress stars as aspiring dancer Mary in “Another Cinderella Story,” set to hit your local video store on September 16.

“She’s a little different [from the original Cinderella] by the fact that she’s a dancer,” Gomez told MTV News. “I think that brings a whole new element to the movie. She’s an aspiring dancer, and she wants to go after her dreams. She sings as well. It’s her achieving her dreams in a different way.”

In the movie, Mary dances with pop star J.P. (Drew Seeley) at her school dance. Since he doesn’t know who she is, he decides to hold a competition for his new music video to find her again. (In real life, the video for the movie’s track “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know,” featuring Gomez playing a maid, aired on “TRL” last week.)

Although Gomez can sing and dance in real life, there were still numbers that she found difficult to master for the movie. “My favorite musical number has to be the tango piece,” the 16-year-old said. “It’s when the two characters meet and fall in love. It’s one of the hardest dances I’ve learned, but the most beautiful.”

- from MTV