07 - Television Career (Part 2)
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Rebecca's quest to talk brought her to MTV where she could continue to wear bikinis at work. In addition to hosting House of Style, she has interviewed stars at the network's awards shows. She specializes in nosy, teasing questions - a welcome break from MTV's reverent bows to celebrity. "How much did your outfit cost?" she demanded at the Movie Awards. (Jeff Goldblum: "That's a rude question.") At the Video Music Awards, wearing a horsehair dress, she asked "How much do you weigh?" or "Have you ever stolen clothes?" For the next awards show, she plans to ask "When was the last time you had sex?"
You quickly get the sense that Romijn craves a steady supply of entertainment. "She's irreverent, a lot of fun - she's one of the guys. And I talk like a filthy bastard, so she liked me right away," testifies former Full House comic Bob Saget. "She's very accessible; she and I constantly have sex."
Romijn and Stamos have other weird friends - the barbecues they regularly host at ther Malibu Canyon house often in jam sessions with Stamos, Bret Michaels of Poison, and various members of Quiet Riot and Guns N' Roses, as though the music room were a shelter for '80s hair-metal dudes. Romijn, who now, like her mom, prefers show tunes, likes to join in on tambourine. One morning, she showed up on the set of a Victoria's Secret shoot with a huge thigh bruise and told the people there that she'd been
playing the tambourine the night before. "They were like, 'Yeah, sure ya were.' "
In the culture of fashion, you see, Romijn is a square. She sees the disparity between show tunes and toe rings, karaoke and horsehair dresses. To explain it, she cites her favorite movie, Grease, and calls herself "a perfect combination" of Sandy's two identities: "Sandy's a wholesome little prissypants, and then to get the guy, she sluts herself up, puts on hot pants and a lot of makeup,
makes her hair all big, and starts smoking cigarettes." For photos, Romijn won't get too slutty: "I'll show the very top or bottom of my backside. I won't show nipple, I won't show hair, I won't show crack."
The photo session that found her posing in a negligee for this story, she says, "made me feel a little naughty, a little nasty. A little bit dirty." When pressed, she finally clarifies: "Dirty" is a good thing. Except in the sandbox.
Bob Saget describes Rebecca Romijn in one sentence: "She really digs me."
The Live Show before the MTV Video Music Awards this year was "the longest hour and a half of my life," Romijn jokes. She was afraid a director would suddenly instruct her to interview, say, Master P, whom she doesn't know much about. One guest she was prepared for: Rose McGowan, whose dress revealed her ass and her breasts. Here is what Romijn would have asked, on live TV: "Don't you wish it was cold, so your nipples would be erect?"
Romijn laughs. "I mean, if you wear a dress like that, you kinda want your nipples to be a little erect, 'cause it gives you a nicer shape. These, "she says sagely, "are the things you know when you model lingerie and bathing suits."
Original article: Details 1/1999 |
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