Mandy Moore takes a walk down memory lane.
The 40-year-old actress and singer recalled the 20th anniversary of her film Saved! while talking to PEOPLE about her new campaign with TJ Maxx — and says she still remembers the shoot like it was yesterday.
“I am bombarded with memories of the set. We all stayed in the same hotel together while filming and I just remember how much time we spent in each other’s rooms. Like, ‘Okay, we’re all going to Jen’s room today.’ Or, ‘Oh, we’re all going to Eva’s room or Mac’s room today,’ we made dinner or ordered food and just hung out,” she says.
Jena Malone, Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin in Saved, 2004. United Artists/Courtesy Everett Collection
Moore played Hilary Faye, the best friend of main character Mary (Jena Malone) in the film, which follows Mary as she tries to “save” her boyfriend from turning gay and getting pregnant in the process.
Moore and Malone starred Macaulay Culkin, Eva Amurri and Mary-Louise Parker.
“It was like we were all 17, 18, maybe some of us were a little older, but it was such a fun summer camp experience,” Moore says. “And we knew it was a really weird, special, little tiny thing. We have not forgotten what we are doing.”
Moore, whose new “Claim Your And” campaign with TJ Maxx is designed to encourage women to define themselves on their own terms and embrace all the different parts of their identities, had already released her hit “Candy” in 1999. and starred in cult favorite films The Princess Diaries (2001) and A walk to Remember (2002) before release Saved!.
Looking back, Moore says she also remembers her early fashion choices — both good and bad.
“I’m sure I’ll probably look back years later and say, ‘What was I thinking?’ But I think the fashion of the late 90s, early 2000s was not my cup of tea. Even then I said, ‘I don’t like these low-waisted jeans. This is not for me.’ But I did it! It’s not something I would go back to now,” she says with a laugh. “I know it’s popular again. But you live and learn, that’s part of being young.”
And speaking of the 2000s, Moore also recently revealed to PEOPLE what her favorite part of “Candy” actually is.
“I’m a big fan of the speaking part,” she said. “I love it [it] because it doesn’t make sense to me: ‘You know who you are. Your love is as sweet as candy. I will be yours forever. Love always, Mandy.’ I remember when I used to do that and thought this is crazy. This is so weird. Will this work? Will people understand this?”
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Mandy Moore at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1999.
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Although her sons with husband Taylor Goldsmith, August “Gus,” 3, and Oscar “Ozzie,” 19 months, haven’t heard the hit, Moore says they’re familiar with another one of her hit singles.
“We have our bedtime routine with Gus and it involves reading books and telling stories, which we call ‘once upon a time,’ and then singing songs,” she said. “Usually we sing a song of mine that’s from my last album that no one knows, but Gus knows and is looking for. But the other day he said, ‘Sing, “I want to be with you”.’ And I was like, what do you think? And he said, “I want to be with you.” And I said, “How do you know that song?”
Just last month, Moore and Goldsmith announced they were expecting their third child together, a girl.
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Posting a photo of her two sons holding hands, the big sibling-to-be wore a white T-shirt. Gus said “Large” and Ozzie read “Medium”.
“Sometimes life imitates art,” Moore, who played a mom of three on NBC this is us she wrote in her caption. “The third in our big three is coming soon. I can’t wait for these boys to get a baby sister. 💓💓💓.”
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