The Review

Issue date: 4/10/07 Section: Mosaic

Media Credit: Courtesy of Tiffany Scott Tiffany Scott poses with actor Will Ferrell (middle), and fellow skating doubles Patrick Hancock (left) and Ethan Burgess (right). [Click to enlarge]

While several university students saw "Blades of Glory" in theaters over Spring Break, senior Tiffany Scott, an applied nutrition major and coach of the university intercollegiate skating team, traveled to Los Angeles for the premiere of the movie, since she appears as the skating double for actress Amy Poehler.

In the movie, Poehler plays the competition for the two male pair skaters, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder.

Scott, a 29-year-old former Olympian, says because she is well known in the skating world, the movie choreographer suggested she play the role because of her physical resemblance to Poehler.

"They called me out last January and asked if it was something I would be interested in doing," Scott says. "I flew out to get measurements and to make sure Amy and I were a physical match. I went out again at the end of February for a week to meet the other skaters and the choreographer. In July, I went for seven weeks to film the movie."

Scott says although the days she went in to work were long - sometimes 14 to 15 hours at a time - it was interesting to see how the filmmaking process worked.

"When I went out in July, we practiced with the actors and had to study them and see how they moved and learn to move in a similar way, so that replacing our faces would be easy," she says. "They were able to take the skaters faces off and put the actors' faces on, which was awesome."

Scott says there are parts in the movie where she cannot tell if it is her or Poehler, because it is Poehler's face but her own body skating.

While being able to spend seven weeks with actors like Ferrell and Poehler may seem unreal to several students, Scott says from being around famous skaters in the past, she did not get too star-struck.

"I told them I admired their work," she says. "Then they would say to me, 'What! What about you? I can't believe how good of a skater you are.' So it was really cool that they felt the same way about my skating as I felt about their work."

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