Katie Couric: At only 11 years old. Annasophia Robb adds in the second major film to her resume. You may remember her, from the heart warming tale because of Winn-Dixie, she stared as Opal, a girl whose life changes for the better, "he wins, Dixie", once she meets and adopts a free friend at a local grocery store, but now she plays a fierce gum chewing champion, Violet Beauregarde, who along with four other kids, finds a golden ticket in the new movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Unfortunately, she fails to hit a warning and starts feeling a bit blue.

(From the motion picture--Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Stick the most amazing and sensational gum of the whole universe.
Sounds like my kind of gum.
I'd rather you didn't, there're still one or two things they are... erm..
I'm the world record holder in chewing gum, I'm not afraid of anything.
How is it honey?
It's amazing! To make the soap I can feel banning down my throat.
I'm just a little concerned about the..
Little berry pie in ice cream.
That part.
What's happening to her nose?
It's turning blue.

Katie Couric: Annasophia Robb. Good morning! Nice to see you. how are you?

Annasophia Robb: Good morning. I'm good, how are you?

Katie Couric: Richard mentioned that we have been chewing gum, you put it behind your ear temporarily ... But the reason we are because we have little bubble blowing competition in a minute. And I have to say, first of all, I have the sugar free gum and that's not as good for bubble blowing, is it?

Annasophia Robb: No, it doesn't have the right, consistency. It's the sugar.

Katie Couric: So I'm working a way on the sugar, bubble gum right now, so I can compete adequately. But let me ask you about becoming a young actress. Because I understand you wanna to do this since you were 3 years old, it's that right?

Annasophia Robb: Yeah I am.. I wanna to do it since I was three. I kept asking for my mom for an agent. And finally when I was 8, she said all right, and she found me an agent in Denver.

Katie Couric: Is that where you are from?

Annasophia Robb: That's where I am from. I'm from Colorado and then I did an acting class, that's for 3 months. And then after that, L.A. agents and managers came out, and I got picked up by one of them and I went out to LA.

Katie Couric: And tell me about some of the roles you had, I mentioned Because of Winn-Dixie you were adorable in that movie, and in fact, you know, in many ways you remind me of the Cold Fenning. Do people tell you that, that you remind them of a little bit of her?

Annasophia Robb: Sometimes, yeah, I guess I think it is the blonde hair.

Katie Couric: Yeah what other movies have you done? What other roles have you had?

Annasophia Robb: I did Samantha: An American Girl Holiday.

Katie Couric: Oh, right, I love you in that, too. You know it's hard cause you had brown hair as Samantha.

Annasophia Robb: Yeah, and this one. Which is, that was fun, I got the blonde hair..

Katie Couric: I bet it was. Tell me a little bit about being involved in this movie. I mean, were you familiar with this story, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as the book is called.

Annasophia Robb: Yeah, I was.. I love the book. It's a great book, it's such a classic and I love all the characters in it.

Katie Couric: Had you seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory which Wilder was in it?

Annasophia Robb: Yes, I had. I love that movie, it's an old song. It's so much fun. And this one, it's a lot supposed to be the original book.

Katie Couric: And the fact is really a lot darker, isn't it? And, I mean, a little more, a little darker when she say it's a little less happy, happy.

Annasophia Robb: It is! Yeah, it's a Tim's version. Which is

Katie Couric: So Tim Burton, right? You don't say, it is me to say more than that. Tim Burton. And Johnny Depp, his version of Willie Walker, is a bit cockier than Gene Walder's. Won't you agree?

Annasophia Robb: Yes! He is. It's a little more cockier, a kind of odd, but I think it's exactly how Ronald Dahl, the feel of the book, is a kind of dark. And so I think Tim really captured that essence.

Katie Couric: I'm excited about that movie. We are ready to count down. Tell me a little bit about Violet Beauregarde and F in terms of her personality. She's one bratty little kid, isn't she?

Annasophia Robb: She is, she's very competitive, and very selfish, too. And she'll do nothing to stop her er..to win. And so I have a lot from playing her because usually I don't play mean characters, except for this part.

Katie Couric: Right, so you had a lot of fun with that, she goes wandering with the same light blue sweatshirt, sweatsuit rather, as her mom who's played by Missi Pyle, who's hilarious too

Annasophia Robb: She's so funny, we had such a good time together, and we're wearing M track suits. So there're so much fun. I've got to repent and…

Katie Couric: You got to …you go up, well, you've got chew gum which is supposing you are smarter according to a recent study, I'm not sure.(really?) that's true. You've also got to blow up like a giant blueberry.

Annasophia Robb:I did, I did. That was quite a fun for me because we did this whole prosthetic thing and the performer may phase then I turn into this big blueberry.

Katie Couric: I think we have video actually, Joe, don't we have two Violets turning blue? So we can now actually show folks. (Big potato) All the sudden this is you and this is from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but really you got a situation here. Are you ready? Let's blow bubble.

Annasophia Robb: Okay. I have to get my gum. I stuck it behind my ear, it's got to stuck.

Katie Couric: OK! We have ten seconds, can you do it? …