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Gabrielle Union Interview

By Thomas Chau


		Biography
		Gabrielle Union Interview

Stunningly beautiful Gabrielle Union had a busy year in 2003: She started the year with a bang with Joel Silver's "Cradle 2 the Grave," then took a break with "Deliver Us From Eva," right before jumping into the big summer blockbuster "Bad Boys 2" with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. But the Omaha, Nebraska native isn't slowing down just yet.

She next appears in "Breakin' All the Rules," where she stars opposite Jamie Foxx. Foxx plays Quincy Watson, who after a painful breakup decides to write a "How To" guide that outlines how men should breakup with women. After a mixup at a nightclub, he finds himself falling in love with Nicky Callas (Gabrille Union), who happens to be on the verge of being dumped by her boyfriend, Quincy's best friend Evan Fields (Morris Chestnut).

Gabrielle was in New York recently to talk about her movie, opening tomorrow.

Q: Gabrielle, is there anything about Nicky you can identity with?

GABRIELLE: It was a little different because my own natural personality is not quite as dingy as Nicky. She wasn’t really together. It was challenging having to be a little vulnerable and clueless especially when it comes to men. She went as far as to cut her hair off. I don’t even know what your favorite food is after three months; I’m definitely not cutting my hair. So yes, it was kind of difficult to find that place of vulnerability and try to sell that which is just not natural to my own personality.

Q: Have you done anything crazy to get a guy's attention?

GABRIELLE: The only time I’ve been dumped was in high school and I vowed it would never happen again.

Q: What happened?

GABRIELLE: I got dumped for this girl was first team all UA and I was second team. She was headed to Stanford and I really believed that I got dumped because my crossover wasn’t as nice as hers. I spent all of that summer working on my crossover and I found out in the end that my getting dumped had nothing to do with my crossover. Apparently, some of her other skills were better than mine. I spent all summer working on the wrong thing. Another time I did something crazy was in Junior High school. This was the time of Duran Duran and New Wave and blonde girls were popular. I soaked my bangs in Hydrogen Peroxide and sat in the sun. In the end I had a patch of red hair at the front of my head.

Q: What's it like to star in a romantic comedy opposite Jamie Foxx, someone you're really good friends with?

GABRIELLE: We are close friends and he’s also close to my husband. He’s truly a southern gentleman and he’s so respectful of my marriage and has been from day one. That was the hardest kind of hurdle to get over; having to get past the awkwardness of kissing my friend. It’s not like we had something and then we became friends or there was some flirtation. It’s just never been that way with him; so that was kind of strange. Hopefully, it was real enough.

Q: Have you ever read a woman's "How To" guide on getting men?

GABRIELLE: Six months before I met my husband, I read "The Rules" and I found out that it had all the same things your mother would tell you like don’t give it up too quick, create a mystery about yourself, don’t tell all your secrets, and so on. It’s funny because I met my husband at a questionable party, but when we went to his apartment and I saw the Scrabble board and Boggle, I asked myself what story I wanted to tell my grandkids at the family reunion about how I met their grandfather. So I pulled back. After that we had a proper courtship. Three months later he bought the ring, 6 months later we got engaged a year and a half later we were married and here we are going on 3 years. So holding back and not giving away everything works. It might have been a little manipulative but I got the ring.

Q: How you deal with having a Hollywood marriage?

GABRIELLE: It’s tough, but my mom says what you put into it is exactly what you’ll get out of it. On the days you put in a little extra into it, you get a little extra out. That is true regardless of whether you are a Hollywood couple or not. All of my married friends and I regardless of whether they are teachers, investment bankers or stay-at-home moms all have the same story to tell, except that sometimes mine ends up in US Weekly. (Laughs)

Q: How have you dealt with your stardom of seeing your face on magazines and your name on the posters, like "Bad Boys 2"?

GABRIELLE: It’s more overwhelming during the process of making the film. While I was working on the film I kept thinking back to the beginning of my career. Now here I was filming with 2 twenty million dollars a film guys. The first day on the set was so surreal with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay on the set. By the time the film premieres, it's not as overwhelming.