“[With her heart set on landing the part of Daisy Duke, Simpson beat out Britney Spears for it. By the time Spears read for the role, the Dukes folks were] already in like with Jessica, ... We tested a ton of girls, and we had interest from some pretty big people. But everything about Jessica screamed Daisy Duke.”
“Originally it written with a bunch of African American students but it was a little soft and I didn’t feel like there was a threat in any way. I just thought it would be funny to have imagined the original Dukes driving around an African American neighborhood with that thing and then of course we thought. ‘oh why don't we put them in black face,’ you know, after we blew the coal up at 'em and just really go for it.”
