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I Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Wednesday, October 20, 1999 sk the stars of lADADW^ efrestt^ t olfel saidsV?] :icle, belter:. ’mape(f>. ofiheb^ alwayu tents gp, ne a a e bus. i<dents« lite.i INTERVIEW BY MATT MCCORMICK iy Shots, opening around the nation in the near [future, is yet another film about young twenty- ' somethings looking for love — or at least sex. sed tor its uncompiMM^ngand unflattering loo mating process m the '90s. ^ris film features a gaud talented east including Sean Patrick F] IReid, Jerry O’Connell and Amanda Peet.^J ■he Battalion spoke with two of the film’s stars, looter (who plays Whitney Bryant) and Ron Ivl on (who plays Trent), about their experiences i k- u e film. | What drew you to this project? show up on the second day of shooting, and they are like, “Here’s your car.” I was like, “Oh my God, a Jeep! I don’t know how to drive that.” n was R to shootme domi- this movie? Procter: It was really a couple pf things. It was bice to do a big studio movie. I had been hovering belouj? the radar a little bit. 1 liked that it was with a croui of people my age, and that doesn't happen terylften. It’s a really fun experience. It was a chal lenge. The subject matter is something thal was Ut ile challenging to embra^y'ully. low did you prepare for your roles? lays] ferk. LivingstoriH have a lot of lines. If you look at a somebody says a sentence and then [TVent] ifour; someone says a sentence and then [Ttent] jiys five. So I figured he better talk last. People that Jast tend to come from either Boston or New c, someplace like that. At least those are the voic- ;Ican do that talk last. 1 figured he was kind of small, because I want- led hinTtoD^small ne|tt to Jerry [O’Connell]. So 1 [had to figure out novv|to play him [my character] [smaller than 1 am. Th|n the rest Of it was just f— long around. formycharac- Hff the movIPS®* Procter: I was just like “oh, oh, oh.” Livingston: I was handcuffed to a bed. Procter: And Ron was like, “Can someone hand me a magazine?” And then we chit-chatted a little bit, and then the directoi asl|ed if we could improv. All I was able to do was laugh. Livingston: It was fin and all, but [there is a] thing that you don’t see when you come to the movie. In between the takes, everyone else is get ting a smoke break, and I’m still handcuffed to the g—d d—n bed with my a-l hangihg out. There’s grips and Teamsters walking around, and I can’t even reach down to pull my pants up. For the first two or threjitimes, everyone is sensitive, but after everyone gets used to it I h|d to gp, “Hello. Can I Wfe ' a Utile 1 lelp here?!” did you feel about bei in thisJmovie? rocter: I us fteiTStdigo ivingston: I loved it. Especiafly in a script like this,! we both got to kind of be the Tunny ones. The movie has so much powef that people really need to laugh in the movie. By the time we had! set up that we were funny, all we really had to do wls take a hat off and set it down and everyone^would start laughing. It was the perfect sitlation to held as far as that goesgBecIuse we got to be fulny, we got to say some of the things that I think some of the other characters would- n't|necessarily hav^gotten to sayjr 06 To 700 To neiM/K J to the end. I keep a nightly journal and just write as .‘’l 1 would if I were a regular person. I write what I think "has transpired in their life and how they think about it. I always do that. I find that’s a great preparation to get you really grounded, because then you be come a little stained by your day’s events, which hopefully shows in the acting. r 6ne thing I didn’t prepare [for] was how to dri- |vea stick-shift car, which I don’t know how to do. I Do you believe that sex can be that casu al [as portrayed in the movie]? Procter: For some people it can. I think it is a nice thing that women have been liberated sexually. I think that if a woman wants to be that casual sexu ally, then it is her choice. That’s kind of the tone of the movie with regards to sex. It is the individual’s choice, and if two people consent, then it’s great. In 'ditor apfiics El nion Editc Editor mpus Ed®' Editor , produce' ’tierson: P Eric ina jason over. MS'' Amanda P#' on. lark, Lai#' rtf#* 1 iceiKMsa# i3ttaP»G !S i#sW*?' •®i4 AREER EXPO ‘99 The Association of Career Development presents Career Expo ‘99 at Reed Arena Tuesday & Wednesday October 19th & 20th. 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ACD is not affiliated with TAMIL Livingston: It’s a little bit mythicized, made big ger for the movies. I do think that it is a trend. Thir ty years ago, well, there’s just things that we do now thafvare ... mmmm If mr —llii II Proper; Wait. Thirty years agci was They were''Summer of Loving” it. J ... Livingston: They .weren’t taking it for granted. When you bust out of that mindsetJjfs different from when yom grow up. Your parents had casual sex, and they raise you to have casual sex, and you have the talk aboftt birth control when you are eight. Procter:: —" Things are changing,; The ta; movies g line for the film »that define every d r is. There are ecade.” Do you believe this film does that? 1 Livingston: I think that every generation is in- flnenced most by what their parents didn’t have. If you rook at the ’50s, it s kind! of material and sta- bility and the American Dream. It really came out naf parents growing up in the Depression. I think the ’60s and the ’70s came out of their patents not hav ing the freedom to break oubof the mold. S pi,think that what we aregroMij||Pp with is kind of|the backlash of the ‘60s, jphich is, “If all this sex is so free and basy, then what’s the point of making (hat intimate, one-on-one phonal connection'||uth somebody?” It really takes a lot of work. I don't think that we as a generation really understand that or even know that it is there. I think we are a little bitjjlost when it comes to thar, but I think we know th|t. We’re looking for it. Procter: Our generatipn is really looking to con- by other people. | Hr i for people to take I'lUCl ne|t and to be understo 7 What Would you like • away from this film? Livingston: I think to take away questions. It is not a movie that starts with questions, then gives you the answer. I hate it when a movie does that. It is like in an hour and a half, “Here’s the answer to life.” This film starts with a bunch of people who re ally think they know everything, and by the end of it they don’t know what the hell to think. The movie really attacks your own cockiness. Procter: Ditto. PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA Emily Procter plays Whitney Bryant, an innocent girl who loses her self-control for one night in Body Shots. COME BEFORE 4 P.M. FOR FASTER SERVICE! Little Caesars* Pizza CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY! BRYAN, TEXAS 1775 BRIARCREST DRIVE 776-7171 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 776-7171 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! EAST 29TH STREET LITTLE CAESARS 1775 BRIARCREST JUST COME IN NO NEED TO CALL WITH CHEESE AND PEPPERONI No substitutions. Round pizzas only. Limit 5 pizzas. Valid at this Little Caesars location only. Carryout only. No deliveries. Sorry, no rain checks.