| The Advocate May 2007 Interview |
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 Like most sensible people in the United States, actress Rebecca Romijn - the 34-year-old former Victoria’s Secret model who became a major movie icon as the wicked, blue-skinned Mystique in the X-Men film trilogy—became addicted to Ugly Betty, the hit comedy from ABC about an unfashionable but loving and sensible young Latina woman who finds herself working as the assistant to the editor in chief at a viper pit of a New York City fashion magazine called Mode.
When Romijn’s own TV series, Pepper Dennis, wasn’t renewed last year, the leggy blond (who divorced John Stamos in 2005 and is very much in love with her fiancé, actor Jerry O’Connell) actively went looking for a new gig. “So I begged for a meeting,” says the actor. “I came in going, ‘I want to be Betty’s friend—I want to help Betty.’ I mean, who doesn’t want to help Betty? But they said, ‘We have a different idea.’ ”
That idea was for Romijn to play Alex, the presumed dead older brother of Mode’s editor in chief, Daniel Meade (played by Eric Mabius). The hook? Alex returns as a fully transitioned transsexual now known as Alexis.
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