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" The cast of &amp;quot;Degrassi: The Next Generation&amp;quot; hung out with Seventeen editors recently to talk about the new season. We got the scoop on everything that&amp;#039;s going to happen this season, and it sounds like it&amp;#039;s going to be a good one! 17: What&amp;#039;s going on this season with your characters? Charlotte Arnold: I play Holly J and she&amp;#039;s the mean cheerleader. This season I&amp;#039;m going to have some financial problems, maybe come to Earth a little bit, but for a large chunk of the season I&amp;#039;m still creating problems. Evan Williams: I play Kelly and I&amp;#039;m a new character this year. I&amp;#039;m a student at Smithdale University and I live with Liberty, Cassie, and Emma. I&amp;#039;m a soulful guy and there&amp;#039;s going to be some ultimate Frisbee playing, me playing the guitar and some love triangle issues.  Nina Dobrev: I play Mia Jones. She seems like your everyday girl trying to fit in at school and do it all except she has a child, so it&amp;#039;s very different since she has that added responsibility, and it never seems to go well. She gets an opportunity to become a model, approached by a scout, and so she does that, and everything&amp;#039;s going well but all of a sudden she isn&amp;#039;t getting jobs. Then she realizes that she has to do some things in order to secure her position that she later regrets. Cassie Steele: I play Manny. I&amp;#039;ve been on the show 8 seasons, and it&amp;#039;s great to be back every time. This season, I guess you already heard from Evan, but we&amp;#039;re in University and he&amp;#039;s the new male roommate, which is very exciting. It causes a rumpus, and um\u2026yeah. Manny&amp;#039;s intense as always.  Raymond Ablack: I play Sav Bhandari on the show, and this is my second season. Sav last year was really na\u00EFve and stuff, and then this year, he&amp;#039;s kind of shed that and become more of like, a popular kid, and he&amp;#039;s got a little sister at school and he&amp;#039;s got to protect her and make sure she doesn&amp;#039;t ruin his image. Sarah Barrable-Tishauer: I play Liberty Van-Zandt. Once again, coming back for an 8th season and as has been mentioned, Liberty&amp;#039;s at University with Manny, Emma, and this new roommate Kelly and she&amp;#039;s, like many people going to University, just trying to fit in and seeing maybe if she wants to dabble in sorority life, which may have some interesting consequences for her. So she&amp;#039;s kind of living the university life and all the things that go with it. Jamie Johnson: I play Peter Stone. This season I have some family issues, some relationship issues, and I start playing guitar for the band Studes.  17: What are the juiciest things that are happening this season? You kind of glazed over them, but, are you allowed to say more? Charlotte: We&amp;#039;ve got a football team coming into the school, and a new principal who is very much the jock, meathead kind of guy, so that creates some interesting moments. Cassie: We have a cool finale coming up, I can&amp;#039;t say too much but Degrarssi goes to LA. And Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are coming back to make an appearance in those episodes. And Perez Hilton!  17: Let&amp;#039;s talk about fans for a second. You have a lot of fans that have watched the show since day 1. What&amp;#039;s the craziest thing a fan has ever done? Sarah: Bathroom encounters are the worst. Cassie: Like when they&amp;#039;re standing outside your stall and like knock on it, that&amp;#039;s gross. Sarah: It&amp;#039;s the wrong time to be bumping into someone. The craziest time for me was at the New York comic convention someone came up with a board with like 50 pictures that I didn&amp;#039;t even know were out in circulation in the public like from family vacations and stuff, that was fun. 17: What did you do? Sarah: What can you do? Like ahh, you spent all this time making this poster with glitter glue and everything. I tried to run away. Cassie: Yeah, there are these two girls that I see everywhere. They came to set, and every time I see them, they&amp;#039;re wearing pictures of us on a T-shirt and are taking pictures with us, and eveytime it&amp;#039;s updated with different pictures, so it&amp;#039;s a different shirt. They&amp;#039;re really cool girls. 17: There are no paparazzi in Canada, right? Ray: They don&amp;#039;t exist 17: Why is that? Sarah: There&amp;#039;s not a star system in Canada. We don&amp;#039;t care. Cassie: Everything&amp;#039;s a lot more glitzy and promoted in America.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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