HOLLYWOOD -- After reports that boy band 'N Sync would appear in "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones" followed by ones that they were out due to the fans' near violent reaction, the teen idols set the record straight to Zap2it.com at the People's Choice Awards.

"You're going to hate this answer," warns Chris Kirkpatrick, the one with the highest pitch voice and dreadlocks. "Ready? Yes and no. To be more specific, maybe."

Kirkpatrick isn't being coy. He and the boys simply don't know the answer themselves.

"We were up there editing our concert movie ('Pop Odyssey Live'), and they were doing some reshoots," Kirkpatrick recalls. "And literally, just a few of us were there. I guess George's daughter is a big fan and she had mentioned it during the re-shoot. And so we got to sneak in a few scenes, but we're not even sure if they're going to make the film. We don't even know what it's going to turn out to be, because we shot just a bunch of different stuff."

'N Sync is well aware of the uproar among "Star Wars" fans at the mere thought of the beloved franchise being sullied by their teeny-bopper presence. They're almost as reviled as Jar Jar Binks.

"We're big 'Star Wars' fans," Kirkpatrick explains, "and we have nothing against every other 'Star Wars' fan out there. And I think it's important for people to know that we're trying to."

"Don't worry about it, we're not Obi-Wan Kenobi," interrupts J.C. Chasez, the one who shares lead vocals with "the cute one" Justin Timberlake, who along with "the fat one" Joey Fatone is not in attendance to accept the award for Favorite Musical Group or Band. Lance Bass, who toplined the box office dud "On the Line" last year with Fatone, is present, but doesn't say much.

"You know, we were little kids with the light sabers running around, and it was real flattering to even just be at the ranch and hanging out," Kirkpatrick continues, "and I'm sure that if anybody who is as big a 'Star Wars' fan as us if not bigger would have gotten the same opportunity, they would have taken it."

J.C. offers this bit of conciliation to the fans: "You know they're going to make it CIG, or whatever they do... CGI... put it over our heads and we'll be aliens."

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