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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nJessica Biel has been feeling particularly fearless these days. \"My latest thing is that I want to do everything that scares me,\" she says after ordering an egg, ham, and cheese sandwich with fries at a chic hotel in Santa Monica, California (a meal, it should be noted, that would induce panic in most other Hollywood starlets). The Colorado-\u00ADraised 25-year-old recently got up the guts to go skydiving and conquered her fear of singing in public by belting out \"Endless Love\" at a piano bar in Paris. She is even thinking about traveling to Africa or Vietnam -- all by herself. Taking risks has been paying off professionally too. She recently took on dramatic roles in the Iraq war film Home of the Brave and the highly acclaimed turn-of-the-century magician flick The Illusionist opposite Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti, a part she acknowledges she had to vie pretty hard for. \"I don't give up easily,\" she says proudly. \"Sometimes, you have to put yourself on the line when you want something and just hope that you don't get laughed at.\"This month, getting people to crack up will be a sign of a job well done. In her new movie, the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Jessica portrays a gay-rights attorney who ends up falling for her client, played by Adam Sandler, who is pretending to be coupled up with Kevin James's character to receive domestic-partner benefits. \"Finally, I get to play the goofy outgoing girl, which is much more my real personality,\" she says. Case in point: She and her group of girlfriends have a tradition of getting dressed up in crazy '70s clothes and neon wigs and going roller-skating at a Los Angeles rink. The other night, they even donned the wigs to stay in and play board games. \"I am just not this aloof and sexy woman,\u00B2 she says.Not sexy? There are maybe, oh, several million men who would disagree with that statement...starting with Derek Jeter (they were photographed frolicking on a beach in Puerto Rico this past winter), Justin Timberlake (they famously flirted at a Golden Globes after-party), and her Blade: Trinity costar Ryan Reynolds (they reportedly took their close friendship to a new level this past spring).For more on Jessica Biel, pick up the July issue of Cosmo, on sale now!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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