7 Things About Evan Rachel Wood

5. Wood writes her own songs, but she probably won't release a CD. "I just started composing my own songs and singing," she says. "I might just make a MySpace or a Web site or just make my music available if people want to hear it. Because I kind of like it being more low-key, and if somebody finds it, that's great. It's a very 'old lounge singer' Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Patti Page kind of vibe. They're my favorites."

6. Those pipes will come in handy next year when she stars in the Julie Taymor Broadway production of Spider-Man. "It's been my dream for as long as I can remember to do Broadway. I sang on Once and Again,and I sang in Across the Universe. I grew up in musical theater. You've never seen a Spider-Man like this. It's going to be like a rock-and-roll circus show, and U2 is going to be doing the music."

7. She won't be getting stage fright this time around; she worked out all her jitters recently in a charity production of Romeo and Juliet at her father's theater in Raleigh, N.C. "I hadn't been on stage for about 13 years," Wood says. "I was extremely nervous that first night. I was shaking. I couldn't even get an earring in my ear."

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