Former Disney Channel’s star Bella Thorne’s career is on the rise, with various feature films under her belt, the 17-year-old makes her Disney Film debut in “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Thorne plays Celia, Anthony’s (Dylan Minnette) high maintenance girlfriend, who can’t handle his lack of character and the turn of events after Alexander wished for his family to go through the kind of terrible day that he goes through.

On a recent press day in Los Angeles, the Cuban rooted and dyslexia advocate teenager, sat with us to talk about all her new experiences, and future projects.

Entertainment Affair: How does it feel to be in a Disney movie, as opposed to a Disney TV show?
Bella Thorne: Disney Film and Disney TV is very different. It’s good, it’s cool. I know everybody in Disney, I know literally every single person from working on their show [“Shake It Up!”] and being in their movie now. I already knew the routine. I know how Disney works.

EA: Did you read the book when you were younger?
BT: I didn’t, because when the book was famous, my dyslexia... I was really uncomfortable with it then, and I didn’t come to it like I am now, that I’m way more comfortable with it.

EA: What do you think of the extended version of the book, in the movie?
BT: It’s very interesting and the writers are great.

EA: Did you have fun on set with Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette?
BT: I didn’t work with Steve [Carell] or Jennifer [Garner] that much. I mostly worked with Dylan [Minnette], and he’s such a talented kid. He’s got music going for him. He’s got his looks. He’s got acting. He’s a really great, hard working, and really down-to-earth.

EA: Dylan sounds like such a nice guy. How hard was it being so mean to him?
BT: It was hard! With his big eyes, his dark black lashes, and his little freckles, and his pale face, and his black hair. And he just looked so sweet, and just ready to be crushed. And they kept saying [be] meaner, meaner. [I would say to him] look at the opposite way!

EA: How was working with Miguel Arteta?
BT: He’s really cool. This is very different for him, this is not really his background. This is very new for him, so it was cool to get his opinion in studio [financed films]. They’re used to doing this kind of stuff, because it’s their film.

EA: Tell me about the scene in the sushi restaurant.
BT: That was the hardest scene to film in the whole movie.I’m there all day, saying the same lines. What is the restaurant called? This weird name, and it’s 11:30 at night. We’ve been this scene for a week, and they finally decided to do my coverage in the last 20 minutes of the day, and I can’t get the line right! It took me at least 25 takes, I’m not over-exaggerating. It was so embarrassing, it was crazy, and I couldn’t get it right. [She explained that because of her dyslexia she learned the sushi restaurant’s name wrong, and memorized the line wrong.] Now, I was stuck with the old one, so I kept pronouncing it wrong.

EA: So you have other films and a new album coming out. Any other projects in the works?
BT: I have a book series coming out called Autumn Falls, with Random House, out on Nov. 11. It’s a really great book. I’m actually so excited to be releasing it. It’s all me, and I hope people like it as much as I do. Autumn is not fancy, she’s not the most beautiful girl in high school, she’s not famous, or glamorous. She’s just a regular girl that moves to Miami when her father dies, and he leaves her a journal to write in, to help her through high school. What she doesn’t realize is that when she writes in the journal things come to life, but since she’s dyslexic, it comes to life a little bit wonky, and mostly backfires on her throughout the series.

Thorne seems very passionate about her new phase as a writer, and what appears to be her alter ego, Autumn. But while you wait for the book series to be released, run to the movie theater and don’t miss “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” opening nationwide Oct. 10.