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I also definitely love glamour. I mean, I love getting dressed up, and
having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty. I'm not gonna lie about
that, cause that's part of what I love about what I do. But celebrity..
it's like the feeling of going to the prom, the adolescent feeling of
popularity.
As
an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good
role. I mean, I understand when you're incredibly famous that it becomes
difficult to deal with the publicity aspect. But
people who are like me, who go, Oh, I'm not gonna do that. I'm just here
for the work!" I find it to be a little pretentious, honestly.
Cause you're not that famous. Calm down. I
would love – and you can quote me – I would love to be Demi
Moore’s doppelganger. I can only hope to be that. When
I read The Whole Nine Yards I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role. He
can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in
his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to
be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real
and really spontaneous.
I would go to
his trailer in the morning and knock on the door and say, "How do I
deliver this line? How do I make it funny?" He would say,
"Okay, honey, this is how you deliver that line."
Melinda is
Radha Mitchell - the beautiful Radha Mitchell. I play Will Ferrell's
wife in the movie. He has a crush on Radha and we don't have a very good
marriage. Whenever
I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room. So whenever you see me
talking to Kevin Pollak in the movie, I’m not really talking. I’m
down the hall trying to be quiet, and he’s doing his lines with
somebody else. It
was very easy. I just looked at Matthew [Perry] and looked at Bruce, and
we just got right back into it. Nancy
has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and
that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. My
agent was like, Oh my God, you're going to love her. The
thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just
to warm up.
There's
a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to
work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Well,
my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the
last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and
Diane's. With
that accent? What is he doing? I don’t know. Sometimes I could but
when I couldn’t, it was still really funny. Ashton
Kutcher and I are playing friends, kind of like “When Harry Met
Sally.” It’s a big love story that goes over [a period of] years. We
hate each other in the beginning. It
was so boring. They’re so serious. It was a difficult time.
Whenever
I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room. Melinda
is Radha Mitchell – the beautiful Radha Mitchell. I play Will
Ferrell’s wife in the movie. He has a crush on Radha and we don’t
have a very good marriage.
With
that accent? What is he doing? I don't know. Sometimes I could but when
I couldn't, it was still really funny. |
