I think people are going to look at you differently after they see
you in Addicted. Then again, when Courage Under Fire came out last
year, the media buzzed that you were finally outgrowing the America's
Sweetheart thing, too.
How long do I stay in the departure lounge? I feel like everyone's
been saying that to me for, like, the last three movies. I've played
a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my
career. But I understand that people have this image of me from Sleepless
in Seattle. I don't even think I did that character right, but that's
the movie most people saw. It's ironic, in a weird way.
You keep making romantic comedies. That's your problem.
I just love to do them. I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as
soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
Maggie's a little more frightening than funny.
She is mean, but it comes from kind of a hurt place. Like all the
characters in the movie, they're different than you first think.
But she does get her revenge in a very original way. And she never
gets sentimental, which in itself is pretty brave. I've never played
somebody so flamboyant or extreme.
What's the worst thing you ever did to get back at an ex-boyfriend?
Nothing, really. I wish I had been that vengeful at some point, if
only to help promote this movie.
With any luck, it won't inspire any copycat crimes.
You should've seen this movie in front of the ratings board. They were
trying and trying and trying to get a PG, and there was just no way it
was going to happen. There's not one swear word in the movie--well,
maybe one. But it was just that the whole concept was perverse enough
for them to give it an R.
They were reading off the things we'd have to eliminate to get a PG,
and the ratings-board guy was laughing. "That was a great line," he'd
say. "You have to lose it, though."
Funny, people get torn in half in The Lost World: Jurassic Park--against
which Addicted to Love is opening--and it's rated PG-13. How come you
don't make nice, family-oriented blockbusters like that?
I'm really not interested in event movies. A lot of times, the women in
those movies are only powerful in terms of their anger or sexuality,
which is kind of what Maggie is--angry and powerful--but she's got a lot
of other complicating issues. And it's funny.
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