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06 - Television Career (Part 1)
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With no previous TV experience, Rebecca Romijn emerged as a talk show host's dream. She was genuinely funny,
game and sweet-spirited, and everybody takes notice when a ridiculously beautiful girl can be ridiculous. Though she couldn't afford to stop modeling yet, she followed in the footsteps of Cindy Crawford and Daisy Fuentes and in 1998 became host of MTV's "House of Style," despite having given what she calls a "disastrous" audition. She wanted the job so much she phoned the producer from a Caribbean airport en route to a modeling shoot and begged for it. "I said, I know I can do this well and I really think you should hire me." And they did. "Now I rewrite the scripts with my husband and comedian friends. "The show made her exponentially more famous and won her the devotion of 15-year-old girls everywhere.
She won devotion, too, from moviemakers, but the first film roles they offered she didn't take. "The failure rate of being just another model-turned-actress is so high," she observes. "I remember turning down a movie costarring Joshua Jackson that I don't even know if they're still going to make. I was supposed to be playing a supermodel and I was like, "No, thanks." They also kept asking me to audition for the new James Bond movie, but I didn't want to put myself out there as if I were saying, "Now I'm ready to star in a movie." I did a little cameo as a drunken bearded lady in Norm Macdonald's "Dirty Work" just because John and I know
Norm and it souded silly. I did "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" for similar reasons and we wound up becoming friends with Mike Myers and his wife. Mostly, I was completely fighting the actress thing, especially if it meant only playing a supermodel. That was my rule: no supermodel parts."
Why then, after she'd made her acting debut in a 1998 "Friends" episode playing what one character called "the most beautiful girl in the world," did she jump into playing a supermodel on NBC's hit sitcom "Just Shoot Me"? They kept asking me to come on the show, and they finally sat me down and said, "We know you haven't had any acting experience and we're willing to make this as comfortable for you as possible. If you want to be funny, we'll give you those chances. If you don't, we'll write around you. We want you to marry David Spade's character and do a few episodes. Are you willing?' How many opportunities am I going to get like this? The show has amazing writing, a talented cast - I mean, Wendie Malick is the funniest woman on TV - and I just
wanted to let that stuff rub off on me. They've had a number of models on that show trying to act. The cast calls them "the fake actresses." At first with me, they were like, "The fake actress is here," and then they were like, "She got the joke out - yea for the fake actress!" I think they ended up genuinely liking me and now they say, "You're a real actress now, but can we still call you the fake actress?" It's gotten more and more comfortable for me on the set, so I'm getting loose and having much more fun with it."
And that brings us to "X-Men", her first substantial foray into film. The movie version of the comic book sensation "X-Men" is being directed by "The Usual Suspects" director Bryan Singer for something like $100 million, and features Academy Award nominee Sir Ian McKellen and winner Anna Paquin, as well as Halle Berry, James Marsden and new Australian sizzler Hugh Jackman. So does this make her an even more real actress? "Well, I'm going to have my own action figure, so that does put me in another league, doesn't it?" she observes, laughing. "Actually my part is pretty small and I don't say that much."
Original article: Movieline 2/2000 |
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