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Not wanting to hurt her beloved father, yet knowing this is the opportunity of a lifetime, Terri decides she has to go for it. With the secret help of her mom and aunt, Terri heads for L.A. The highly competitive summer program offers a single scholarship for the coming year - a seemingly impossible dream for a small town girl. But with the help of some new friends and in inspirational teacher, Terri finds the will to meet the challenge. Raise Your Voice is an inspirational, music-filled journey of challenge, hope and true love.

“It’s a little more difficult in this movie because I was singing arias and stuff I never have to sing for the type of music that I sing,” Duff said. “But there’s definitely times that I get that frustrated when I can’t sing something that I want to or I can’t hit a certain note that day.

There’s definitely a process where I’m writing and I’m like, ‘This is stupid. Why did I write this? Let’s start from the beginning.’ And I’ll end up throwing something away that I really did like, just because it didn’t sound that great that day. There’s definitely some challenging parts.”

The film also provided some of Duff’s most difficult acting challenges, as it is her first drama. “People have been asking me today what the most challenging part of the movie was, and it wasn’t the crying scenes. I think that’s much easier than trying to make people laugh. Crying on command is not that difficult. But the parts that were harder for me were after the tragedy happens to Terri in her life, it’s kind of just like a closed-off, numb feeling. She doesn’t feel any emotion, no happiness, no sadness. She’s kind of like nothing. That was the hardest thing for me.” For complete interview click here.

Raise Your Voice Opens Oct 8th