As someone who started acting from an early age, Lacey Chabert has played a wide variety of roles, from a sweet orphaned teen on Party Of Five to a bitchy high school brat in Mean Girls. But in her latest role, she's playing the romantic lead opposite a small blue speed freak with an addiction to gold rings. And no, we're not talking about Andy Dick. In Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, which makes its next-gen debut on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Chabert does the voice of Princess Elise, whose kidnapping prompts Sonic to jump around a lot. Though it was apparently Lacey, a life-long Sonic fan, who did all the jumping when she landed the role.

GameSpy: When did you first get into the Sonic games?
Lacey Chabert: When I was ten. The game had come out the year before, and I was living in New York, and working, and one of the first big things I ever saved up my money to buy was a Sega Game Gear so I could play Sonic.
GameSpy: Was that what got you interested in being in the new one?
Chabert: Absolutely. I was excited to be involved since it's the fifteenth anniversary of the game, but also because it was something I had been into growing up.
GameSpy: Did the people at Sega tell you why they wanted you for this role?
Chabert: They just told me that they thought my voice was appropriate for the character.

GameSpy: So how much of the game did you see before you signed on the dotted line?
Chabert: None. I only got to see it the day of, and I didn't even get to see the finished game because when I was recording, only part of it was done. But what I did looked absolutely incredible. I was really blown away.
GameSpy: Did you at least get to see how your character would look in the game?
Chabert: Yeah, I did, which is always helpful because you have to make sure the voice matches the character and her body language.
GameSpy: Were you bummed out, though, that your character was a human and not a hedgehog?
Chabert: No. Though at first they said I was going to be the voice of Sonic, which I thought was odd because Sonic is a boy, and my voice doesn't sound like a boy's voice, but then they told me I was actually playing Princess Elise.
GameSpy: When you were working out the details of your contract, were you like, "I want a Sonic t-shirt, a copy of the game, two coffee mugs…."
Chabert: No, I don't think I get anything. I'm going to have to go to Toys R Us and buy a copy myself.