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1	* ActingForTwo: On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', she voiced both Luanne Platter and Joseph Gribble before he hit puberty (after which he was then voiced by her ''Clueless'' co-star Breckin Meyer).
2	* ActorInspiredElement: While on ''Film/UptownGirls'', it was the production design team's idea to have Molly wear a lampshade as a head accessory, it was Brittany's to scrunch it up and wear it as a beret.
3	* TheCastShowOff: It wasn't widely known, but Brittany was also a trained singer, had briefly been in a band, and had hopes to perform on Broadway. She got to demonstrate her singing in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''.
4	* DawsonCasting:
5	** Just about in ''{{Film/Clueless}}''. She turned eighteen during production.
6	** In ''The Devil's Arithmetic'', her character in the book was twelve. Even with the film giving Rivka an AgeLift (she's implied to be sixteen), Brittany was twenty-two.
7	** The same year she played a teen in ''Film/GirlInterrupted''.
8	** In ''Film/CherryFalls'', she was twenty-three.
9	* DyeHard: Naturally brunette, she became best known as a blonde in the 2000s.
10	* EnforcedMethodActing: She and Ashton Kutcher improvised an argument before filming the scene in ''Film/JustMarried'' where Tom and Sarah are trapped in the snow - to allow them to get through the scene without {{Corpsing}}.
11	* FakeNationality: She played a World War II era Polish Jew in ''Literature/TheDevilsArithmetic''.
12	* PlayingAgainstType: Around the time she was cast in ''Film/EightMile'', she noted that she'd only ever been selected to play characters who were cute or crazy. Alex on the other hand was a sensual independent woman, and her first proper love interest role.
13	* RomanceOnTheSet:
14	** She dated Eminem while filming ''Film/EightMile''.
15	** She and Ashton Kutcher on the set of ''Film/JustMarried''.
16	* StarMakingRole: ''{{Film/Clueless}}'' was her first major role, but it was arguably ''Film/EightMile'' that made her a leading lady.
17	* ThrowItIn: There was no direction on how to say the line "I'll never tell" in the script for ''Film/DontSayAWord''. Brittany decided to deliver it in a sing-song voice.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** She was cast in a biopic of Janis Joplin, a role she was extremely excited about. The production fell through however and was never picked up again.

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