A Day in the Life of...ERIK VON DETTEN

I was shooting over in Bubank and I live at the beach. It's like an hour away. So you actually have this apartment at the studios and we stay there during filming. When we were [shooting] at the studios, we got up around 6:30 a.m or 7 a.m, and it wasn't a long drive-two minutes. My mom [Susan] took me.

I don't take a shower in the morning; I work better when I'm sleepy. For breakfast, we;d swing by McDonald's and get breakfast there. But then when I was shooting my movie, I was willing to make breakfast. I'd make scrambled eggs. Instead we put Parmesan cheese in there with some pepper and salt. It makes it enjoyable. I ate a lot of that.

Once I got to the studios, I'd go on in ]my trailor]-I got a star already! I'd relax, no, I'd get dressed. Get dressed, you go into hair and mnake-up, and usually while I'm in make-up I'd go over my lines. The whole entire process takes about half an hour-not that I'm really ugly and need a lot of make-up.

And then after that, they rush you over to the school trailer. Normally you go to school. And then when you were done, you'd wait 'til your scene came up and then when it did, you just, you know, shoot the scene. It's such a long process, so it take a while.

During my down time, sometimesI would just hang out with [co-star] Adam Zolotin or I'd just do whatever he wants to do. Go over my lines.

For Lunch, they cater that, catering trucks and stuff. They made all sorts of stuff. My personal opinion is the catering is poor. The only good thing, I think, is they made pasta really good.

If my call time was 8 a.m, I'm usually out of there around 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. Sometimes they'd do night shoots, though, where your call's going to be around 4 p.m. and you'd work 'til about 1 in the morning.

It was really nice place we were staying at. It's got a swimming pool and a place where you could go hear records and work out. It was really quiet. I'd go to sleep there after work because there's so many kids in that apartment [complex]. So I slept from [sometimes] 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. every single day. [For Dinner], my mo used to cook, but she never cooks anymore-you know, she's got enough stuff under her belt! But I usually just pop in a microwave dinner. I've been eatin gpastas and stuff and tuna sandwiches.

I got to bed around 12 a.m. because I'd go out. Usually dinner was just like I'dwait until the last, "My God, guys, I'm so hungry. I'll be be back, I gotta get something." I'd run in the house, take out some bread or whatever, run out, "Erik eat that slow!" "Okay, Mom." It's so funny.