Eva Mendes Plays Coy on Rehab Details
Don’t look for Eva Mendes to be spillin’ all about her visit to rehab.
“There are so many lies out there regarding my recent trip to Cirque Lodge,” the starlet says in the new Interview magazine, out July 15. “But I don’t care what people think. I just don’t care. So I will neither confirm or deny.”
Mendes actually feels better when stories are wrong rather right…
“But for all the stuff that came out a few months ago about substance abuse, there were so many wrong stories,” she says. “I was so happy about that, because it’s when they get the real scoop that would make me really nervous…You want it to be a lie, because when it’s true, that’s when I’d be like, ’Oh, my God!’ It’s time to rethink who’s in your circle, because stuff got out.”
Mendes also sounds off on the obstacles she faces as a Latina in Hollywood, including not being considered for the same parts as her pal Drew Barrymore. “But it’s like, ’No we want more of an American type of girl,’” she explains. “And it’s like, American has opened up. I’m an American girl, born and raised. I mean, I was into New Kids on the Block, just like Drew! Actually, I shouldn’t say that. I don’t know if she was. I’m going to text her on that one.”
(For the record, Barrymore is shooting right now and couldn’t be reached to ask if she is, in fact, a New Kids fan, but her rep did respond, “We do love Eva, though!”)
Joaquin Phoenix Is Upset With Eva Mendes
Joaquin Phoenix Is Upset With Eva Mendes
It’s so interesting to see the off-screen interaction between two actors that have worked together. While they had some pretty intense love-scene-moments in “We Own The Night,” Joaquin Phoenix and Eva Mendes aren’t showing much love in real life.
It all started at the Cannes Film Festival. The “Hitch” actress made a comment that the “Walk the Line” actor didn’t appreciate.
She told an interviewer, “Working with Phoenix was kind of like working with a puppy dog or a 2-year-old.” And that turned out to be a bad move.
Joaquin fired back in a recent interview with Playboy magazine. “Had I known I was supposed to be a puppy dog, I would have been much more cute and more consistently attentive. My apologies, Eva, but I had a few other scenes that you weren’t in. This puppy dog had a lot of work to do.”
Ouch.
Mr. Big Is Hatin’ on New York City
Just call it Sex and the Suburbs.
Chris Noth says New York City has lost the edge he loved so much when he arrived in the city as an actor in the late ’70s.
“New York is pretty much commercialized to the point of no return,” the Sex and the City star groans to Ron Galotti (the former magazine honcho who was the real-life inspiration behind Mr. Big) in the new issue of Interview magazine.
Noth further complains that he misses the “diverse eccentrics” and “different neighborhoods” that used to fill the city.
“That’s all been washed out,” he says. “It’s very suburban. The art scene really left, except in patches. It’s all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it’s squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibilitymoney talks, bulls–t walks, I guess.”
Ron Moore interview online
Wired Magazine has posted online an interesting interview with Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ron D. Moore. In it he discusses several topics such as his philosophies behind the Battlestar Galactica relaunch and its prequel series Caprica and his new Fox show Virtuality, his work on the Star Trek franchise as well as his personal history and religious beliefs.
In the interview, Moore confesses that he was both jock and nerd. He went to a California high school in a town that was so small, he was a quarterback for the football team yet watched the original Star Trek. Or maybe he just simply didn’t believe in such labels.
He also discusses dealing with online fans, stated best in this quote: “oh really, they don’t like it when we do that? Well that’s what were doing. We kind of go the other way. Oh, that’ll piss them off? Well let’s really piss them off. This’ll really piss them off, that’ll drive them insane. They’ll say, oh, there’s this guy who really hates the show, and all he talks about is how much he hates Starbuck. Oh, yeah? OK. Let’s do a Starbuck episode.”
It’s a very good interview. Recommended.