Samantha James

Samantha James was the main antagonist of the 2005 romantic comedy Just Friends, she was played by Anna Faris.

Samantha is a sexy and successful, but highly untalented and stupid pop singer/songwriter who also plays guitar. Her only praised success is her work as a model, an occupation she excells in due to her sex appeal. While not exactly evil, she is mindnumbingly selfish, concieted and obnoxious. All she is interested in is becoming a rich and famous artist and seducing her producer Chris Brander on whom she has a possesive and demanding crush. Typical for a rom-com villain she is also funny and accident prone.

Role in film
Samantha is first seen using a commercial for world hunger to promote herself. Chris Brander's boss sends him to find and sign Samantha a deal with them as her modeling poster is the best selling one in the country. It is evident as soon as Chris arrives at a studio where Samantha is recording a new song that she is a terrible singer, a flaw that she does not notice and blames on other people. Samantha agreed to go with Chris to Paris to sign the deal but on the way her private jet crashed in Chris' old home town, New Jersey. Being forced to stay there until the plane got fixed, Chris and Samantha crahed in Chris' old house with Chirs' mother, Carol, and eighteen year old brother, Mike. Mike happened to have the hots for her and had decorated his room with her many modelling posters, in all of which she is almost naked. While Samantha tried to entertain herself, which she found difficult in a suburban house after abusing the playboy lifestyle, Chris snuck off to woo his high school sweetheart, a fact he kept secret as his job relied on Samantha's coperation.

The only four times Samantha left the house all turned out rather unleasent.

1: She made a scene in a tavern and accidentally kissed a lady on the lips.

2: Mike accidentally hit her with her taser, causing her to fall off the level of a mall and hit her head, resulting in her consuming so much vicodin she became rather crazy

3: A member of the crowd at the club she was singing at threw something at her so Samantha violently attacked him.

4: Out of spite, Samantha destroyed a Christmas party that Chris had snuck off too alone.

Samantha's activities inside of Chris' house were less disastrous and also helped the film highlight Samantha's greedy side. On her first night there she was shown trying to grope Chris right in front of his mother, not stopping when Chris tried to force her hand away. She also shared 3 physical moments with Mike, each was more bizzare than the last.

1: She offered a handshake upon meeting him.

2: She got him to give her a back rub by implying sex in return, though chances are she was lying.

3: When Chris snuck off to the party Samantha later ruined, he told Mike where he was going and not to tell her. Later, Samantha snuck up on Mike while he was brushing his teeth, pinned him against the wall and loudly demanded he tell her where Chris had gone but Mike insisted he would never tell her. Samantha responded to this by French kissing Mike passionatley, causing him to tell her right away.