America Ferrera, who has since become the title character of Ugly Betty and won critical acclaim for her portrayal, had expressed second thoughts of returning for the sequel after the film's producers exercised their sequel option, but she eventually did join the project.

Taken directly from interview with Blake Lively: My character, she has always been running away from dealing with her problems, namely her mother's suicide. She's in college and on the varsity soccer team at Brown and she's into archaeology now. So she goes off to a dig in Turkey, and she's looking at these bones of all these other people and finding out about all these other people's pasts, until she kind of realizes "I need to deal with my own past!" and some things that really rock her. And she goes to her grandmother's, who she hasn't had a relationship with, ever, and really finds out about her mother and about her, because she never really knew her mother and her dad doesn't talk about it. So she's afraid "Am I like her?" because she gets sad. But the reason she gets sad is because her mother killed herself! She just needs to hear "You're a different person. I knew your mother. You're not sick, you're okay. And your mother did love you, she just had a problem." So it's a really great realization for her.

The first movie is so much about the Sisterhood and friendship, and we're doing our own things but we have this Sisterhood. But this next movie is three years later and we've grown up, we're adults. We're doing so many different things in our lives. We have boyfriends. We have family. We have soccer teams. We have so much going on and we're in different parts of the U.S., that we don't really have the Sisterhood so much. There's not so much time for it as there was before. So it's about us finding that again and it's hard. It's hard to make time and we kind of fall apart without our core, which is each other.

Cast:
America Ferrera - Carmen Lowell 
Amber Tamblyn - Tabitha "Tibby" Tomko-Rollins 
Alexis Bledel - Lena Kaligaris 
Blake Lively - Bridget Vreeland 
Bradley Whitford - Carmen's Father 
Lucy Hale - Effie Kaligaris 
Ernie Lively - Bridget's Father 
Victor Slezak - Doctor 
Tom Wisdom - Ian 
Leonardo Nam - Brian McBrian 
Jesse Williams - Leo 
Michael Rady -Kostos Dounas 
Shohreh Aghdashloo 
Rachel Nichols 
Blythe Danner - Greta 
Kyle MacLachlan 
Rebekah Aramini - Lena's Mother 
Adrienne Bailon - Girl renting DVD 

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