The Challenge was filmed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It's about a group of kids who are in a teen survivor-type game, competing for college scholarships. Mary-Kate and Ashley play sisters who do not like each other. Their parents are divorced and one girl lives with their father in Washington while the other lives with their mother in Los Angeles. Unfortunately they get put on the same team with a group of other kids, and Mary-Kate and Ashley are constantly fighting. They have to learn to work together or they'll blow it for everybody. Of course they learn to get along with each other by the end of the movie! "It was a nice twist on the roles Mary-Kate and I usually play," Ashley says. "It was kind of fun to have a conflict between us." "I really liked the Survivor aspect of the whole thing," Mary-Kate says. "And there's a cool surprise at the end," she adds. "But I don't want to give it away. You'll have to see it for yourself!"

Mary-Kate and Ashley admit that their toughest problem occurred in The Challenge. Why? Because nearly everyone on the set got sick from the water in Mexico! "They call it Montezuma's Revenge," Mary-Kate says. "It's kind of funny, now that I can look back on it. You know since the video is called The Challenge."

Mary-Kate and Ashley had to cross another bridge in one of their most recent movies, The Challenge. This bridge was hung over jagged rocks, and it was made of rope. It was the kind of bridge that sways from side to side when you cross it, and it can flip over! And Mary-Kate and Ashley's characters had to cross it in order to win a Survivor-type competition. "The crew was nervous about us walking the bridge--even with the safety harnesses, " Ashley recalls. "But Mary-Kate and I were up for it." Another "challenge" involved balancing on a tall telephone pole, which was standing out in the ocean. "The top of the pole was about the size of a plate," Ashley remembers. "And I had to stand on it for almost an hour without falling into the water." There are times when you think you're seeing something in a movie, but it's really a fake. For example, in a scene from The Challenge, Mary-Kate has to eat worms. And it looks like she really is! Yes, Mary-Kate had to dip her hand into a gross plate of real worms. But when you see her eat one, it's only a brown Gummi Worm.

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Behind-the-Scenes Ambitious, uptight Lizzie (Ashley Olsen) and laid-back tree-hugger Shane (Mary-Kate Olsen) have to learn to live together – and work as a team as they are unknowingly selected for the same team on a popular TV reality adventure show. A college scholarship is the prize at stake. Will the show’s producers use sibling rivalry as a ratings tactic? Will this bring the girls closer or push them apart forever? Shot in the scenic Mexican resort of Cabo San Lucas, this light-hearted comedy/adventure is the final entry in Mary-Kate and Ashley’s successful series of video and DVD movies, before they continue their big-screen careers in 2004.