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Vancouver native Vaugier jumped from the small to big screen in 40 Days and 40 Nights and now tops that role with a key character in Secondhand Lions.
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For a Catholic mother, it would seem a blessing for her daughter to appear in a film based on observing Lent.  Of course, Canadian actress Emmanuelle Vaugier never showed her mother the script for what became 40 Days and 40 Nights.

"My mother went to see the film with my boyfriend at the time and his mother," laughs Vaugier, whose character romps with an orgasm-faking Josh Hartnett.  "You can imagine the phone call after that!  My mom said, 'You don't need to
do that.  Why did you do that?'  She's a very religious French
mom, and that just doesn't fit into her world.  Plus, she didn't like all
the men in the audience hooting and hollering.  I tried to explain
that was a good thing because it meant they liked me."

While the film sent her mother off on a Hail Mary bender, Vaugier's brother got calls of his own. 
"My brother didn't know what I did either, and he told all his friends to go see the film," she laughs.  "He couldn't believe I didn't warn him.  After it came out, all his friends at work were like, 'Dude, I saw your sister in that movie!'  He loved the attention!"

Fortunately, the prayer vigils for Emmanuelle can cease.  Her newest film, New Line Cinema's Secondhand Lions, casts the sexy star as a Persian princess named Jasmine...