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Spotlight On Genevieve Cortese
Source: People Magazine
Article By: Alexis Chiu
Date: January 15, 2007

For season 3 of ABC Family's Wildfire, the 26-year old actress is back in the saddle as rebellious teen horse whisperer Kris Furillo.

ON DOING HER OWN RIDING: I do probably 70 percent of my horseback scenes. I grew up around horses. My mom made us take riding classes, even though I don't think we had the passion for it. I was into soccer and books.

ON HER COSTAR: Five or six horses play Wildfire. One has really dark black hair and they paint his body brown. I'll be riding and I'll have spraypaint all over my fingers.

ON BEING FIRED UP BY FAME: Right now I'm passing billboards everywhere for the show. My jaw literally drops when I'm watching one of those videoscreen ads on the New York subway. I'm like. "OMG, there's me!"