Hannah Montana the Movie Press Conference – Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Lucas Till, Jason Earles and Billy Ray Cyrus

What kind of roles are you looking for after Hannah Montana and what do people offer you now?
Emily Osment: "Every actor wants to sort of hit every sort of angle of art, and I've been playing this character for almost four years now, so I think it's natural for me to want to play something different.

I think everybody does."

Miley Cyrus: "This summer I am working on a movie that Nicholas Sparks wrote for me. And you never really hear that the movie was written before the book. It's kind of a weird way to do that. But he wrote the movie before he wrote the book, and he wrote it with me in mind. So I've always been lucky to play parts that relate to me - and this doesn't at all. This girl has - I have my issues, but not as bad as this chick so I am happy to play someone who is just kind of out there and not someone that I am like. So I can actually see if I'm a good actress or not, or if I'm just good at playing myself. So I'm going to see how that goes."

Lucas Till: "Actually, a year ago, the last thing I thought I'd be doing is this right here, the Hannah Montana movie. This is a lot different than what I would normally go for. I definitely want to go for something a little bit more edgy, something a little more that my friends back home can watch. But this is definitely a good movie to be a part of for my family to watch."

Emily Osment: "I want to be slaughtered or something!"

Miley Cyrus: "Emily wants to be slaughtered! Can we please quote that?"

Emily Osment: "In a movie."

Lucas Till: "It is a bunch of fun being slaughtered!"

Emily Osment: "I think it would be fun."

Miley Cyrus: "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn’t exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

Miley, have you thought about a sequel to this movie yet? And what are your other plans for 2009?

Miley Cyrus: "Hopefully I will just continue to do different movies and I have a tour in mind for this year, and I'm excited about that. For a sequel, I feel like this is a TV show and we got really lucky with having the material to make one movie and to do another one I feel like it takes away the reality of it all. And that was the point of this. Lucas touched on this a little bit, but people who are in normal high schools and stuff look at this and see a blonde wig and all that and they say, 'That’s not real, and it is not reality,' which is completely true. You're not going to be able to live that life, and I can't live that life forever. It was very clever the way we revealed the Hannah Montana secret, but didn't make the show completely unrealistic and not be able to come back to the show, because we are continuing to do season three, and we all wish to do a season four. I would love to do that if the time is right and if that's what everyone agrees on. So I don't know if I would do another film, but I would love to do another season. I think that would be what we would all agree on."

Miley, what is the biggest misconception about you?

Miley Cyrus: "I get a lot of those, I tell ya! I feel like a lot of people, where you're from, you hear them all the time and you say they’re so grateful for their fans and they are so happy to be doing what they do and they love it. But there's a difference between loving your job and living only for your job. And I think people always will say I am overworking and I am over-exposed and that's what I want is all the attention. That's not. What I love is the art of it all. And that's why I always say I want to go off and do other things at some point when the time is right. My dad's taught me that it's all about the time. If the time isn't right, nothing is going to fall into place. [Looking at her dad] I do listen to you every once in a while! So I feel like once the time is right, I’ll be able to do those things. And I just want people to realize that I really am grateful for what I do and I really do care about the fans. And I can't help if there are 40 photographers outside my house. I try to keep my life as private as I can, but I definitely don't do what I do for the attention because if I knew coming into that I would have all those people outside my house, I might have given myself a second thought."

Miley, being a role model, is that something you wish you could divorce from what you do? What is your comfort level with being a powerful role model?

Miley Cyrus: "For me, I find there are two different things. If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost. What I think people like about me and the way they relate to me is because I don't try to change and I haven't let what I do for a living become my life and completely affect me. And what I do personally in my life is not necessarily to be reported, but it doesn't mean it's not going to be. I'm going to make mistakes, and I would not trade that for anything because I always say the minute you stop making mistakes is the minute you stop learning. And if I ever stop doing that, we are all in trouble because that's what life is all about. I never want to disappoint people and my decisions sometimes not only disappoint other people, but disappoint myself as well. But there are times that I am going to do that and if I don't then all of a sudden I'm not real, and then you really can't look up to me."

Jason Earles: "I also think that it's unfair to expect a 16 year old to raise your kids. So while she does occasionally make mistakes, that's a good opportunity for parents to educate their kids about maybe different decisions that they can make. So while you can look at her and look up to her and there are things that are very aspirational about her, anybody who thinks that she 100% of the time should be the shining example for your kid, you are sort of misleading yourself as a parent."

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