Acting debut

CEBU, Philippines - Alecia Moore, better known as Grammy-winning singer Pink, makes her acting debut in “Thanks for Sharing.” But the 34-year-old isn’t pursuing other roles. She isn’t even in a rush to make more music.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do from here,” she said during a break from her “Truth About Love” tour to promote her first film. “I don’t know if I’ll do anything right away or maybe I’ll just make another baby. Maybe I did what I was supposed to do. I would have just continued to do (entertainment) forever, but now I could see myself scrubbing the floors in a preschool bathroom.”

After turning down offers to portray a “convict, runaway, the girl that beat somebody up, the girl that stops somebody from getting beat up,” Pink took on the challenge of playing a character writer-director Stuart Blumberg actually based on her.

Among an ensemble cast that includes Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim Robbins, she plays Dede, a tattooed hairdresser whose confessional monologue at a sex addicts’ 12-step group leads to an important relationship with one of its members.

“It was not a stretch, but it also wasn’t me and it wasn’t my story, so it was a challenge for me because I’ve never done anything like that before,” she said. “I have a really, really shy side, and when I don’t know what I’m doing necessarily, I’m not this scary, aggressive, intimidating person that people think I am. So my biggest challenge is getting out of my own way.”

Pink said she drew on real emotions for her acting debut — “Like what part of this is breaking my heart? That’s where I went with it.”

Ultimately, she’s happy she tried acting: “It was like my first skydive: I’m just glad I got it done.”

She’d even do it again “if the right thing comes along and I thought it would do some good in the world, then yeah. Maybe.” (FREEMAN)