Susan Colleen Duff

And interestingly enough, the reason this is called Material Girls and they covered this song and everything is because this movie was produced by Madonna's production company, Maverick Films.

Now, Madonna herself did not produce it, but her manager, Guy Ossieri, was one of the co-producers, as was Hilary and Susan Duff.

Now, remember, earlier in my Hilary series, I talked about how Hilary lost out to certain roles and things like that because Susan kept trying to get her producer credit.

Like Susan was always trying to bump Hillary up in the rankings and get her more money and more respect.

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this, and w- what, what do we actually wanna do with you as a brand?" Like, I don't think we were thinking along those lines, and in the book I talk about how when I'm shooting Cadet Kelly, like we're looking at Susan Duff, her- Hilary's mom is her momager, who was like the Kris Jenner of her time.

Right.

And she was just so advanced and screening the way that Hilary would be projected to be a star in two years, five years-

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Ashley and Jessacast.

This is episode 181, which also happens to be part 6 in my Hilary Duff series.

Today we are starting at the end of 2004 with the release of my favorite Hilary Duff movie, Raise Your Voice, and going into Hilary's 2005 Most Wanted Era.

This was big.

I mean, Hillary really gained a lot of fans around this time.

I have to say, though, that for me personally, this is probably going to be controversial.

I think that the golden era of Hillary Duff ended after Raise Your Voice, but before Wake Up came out.

It's not that I didn't love her after that, but I think the golden Hillary Duff era was Lizzie McGuire through early 2005.