Post by pearl on Dec 21, 2006 20:03:36 GMT -5
Denise Richards (aka Pearl) talks about her work on the RPG, the other Characters and the future of LOST:
(Due to schedule differences aside Mr. Sarsgaard the network and he agreed to postpone his appearance on the Tonight show to 2007)
Coming back from the commercial break, Jay taps a blue note-card on his desk and glances over at the band-leader. "You know what I've noticed, Kevin? If you flip through the TV channels these days, you can just about find something for everyone. It's true. You've got the History Channel, the Game Show network, HGTV, Animal Planet. But I think that there should be more cat-fights with women caught in nets, don't you?"
"Thankfully, our next guest has worked tirelessly to correct this tragic oversight. You've seen her in 'Starship Troopers', 'Wild Things' and 'The World Is Not Enough, as well as FHM's list of the Sexiest Women in the World. Now she's a part of the cast of ABC's hit drama 'Lost'. Please welcome Denise Richards, ladies and gentlemen!" The crowd applauds as the spotlight shifts over to the curtain.
The curtain opens to both sides revealing Denise coming in smiling nicely. She attempts a slight wave at the audience walking over towards Jay who is intercepting her halfways.
They hug and Denise gives him two kisses: One on the left, one on the right cheek.
Jay returns to his seat behind the desk, giving his guest time to get settled. "Welcome, welcome," he greets. "I'm so glad they allowed you off the island for a few days."
Denise still smiles warmly sitting down too leaning on the armrest toward Jay.
"Well, I am glad to finally have an excuse to come back. Not only for the network but for myself."
"Yeah, you're a California girl. Born near Chicago, but grew up in Oceanside, so this is like homecoming for you?"
"It's actually really homecoming. You know, I still own the house in your neighborhood and my two daughters still attend their old school. I am glad it all worked out that way. But being on your show is always like homecoming." she grinned.
"So you liked the banner and everything I put up in your dressing room, right?" he joked. "You mentioned your daughters. And you film for long stretches of time out in Hawaii. Is it hard to be away from them for so long? Do they come out and visit a lot?"
"Yeah ... and I really feel bad about it sometimes. You know, being a bad mother and such. But Sam and Lola are so proud that their mother is on Lost now."
Denise smirked.
"And Charly is doing great on this too. He has them for the time I am gone and they visit me every holiday that I am not in LA. They like Hawaii just as much as I do. Tonight they are staying at Pamela's house. They get along with Brandon and Dylon, her sons, so well. I hope that will end before the four get into puberty!"
"Oh, I can just hear them on the playground. 'My mommy's a doctor.' 'Well, my mommy's on Lost'..." he says, imitating children arguing. "And they like Hawaii? Are they learning to surf and scuba dive, things like that?"
"Oh no ... I am a too scared mother for stuff like that. They aren't even allowed to go swimming in the sea because I need to have them close. I don't want them to go anywhere I couldn't go for them like ... 100% fast. In their school I am called mommy-halliburton."
He laughs. "Mommy-Halliburton? Well, maybe they could use you in Iraq. I hear the Bush administration has some new openings," he remarked with a pained expression. Changing the subject, he asks "Now, did you always want to be an actress? 'Cause you started out as a model..."
She thinks about it for a second.
"Well, when I moved to California and saw all those actresses like Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeifer ... and so on. I really pictured myself receiving an Oscar one day. I mean every girl does it I guess. Modeling was a first step then and it was great ... superficial but, you come around. Acting is a little more about what's inside of you and to bring that out to the people. That's what always appealed to me about acting."
"And it's probably more challenging than striking a pose," he observes. "You have to say words and stuff when you're acting."
Denise brakes a laugh looking at Jay oddly.
"Yeah, normally it involves these kind of actions. But I once did this commercial where is was dubbed out later. So, that was an exception. Usually I get booked to say something ... like tonight."
"And of course, we're happy to hear from you. Especially any insider info on the show, but we'll get to that later," he says with a wink. "Now, one of your previous acting jobs was as a Bond girl. You joined the exclusive club when you worked with Pierce Brosnan several years ago. Do you have an opinion on the new Bond? Do you think Dr. Christmas Jones would have gone for him?"
"Oh no ... I was getting jumped at saying my true opinion about the new bond countless times, so I surely won't make that mistake on national television!" she laughs.
"But being a bond-girl is the greatest and if they would ask me again I would surely go for it!"
"He has nice abs though ..." she adds with twitching an eye at Jay.
Jay throws up his hands in mock frustration. "Ya' see, Kevin? A nice set of abs and they'll forgive you anything!" he cries, then shakes his head. "Now 'Lost' isn't your first TV series. You've done 'Spin City', 'Melrose Place', 'Doogie Howser'...Were you prepared, or is this different from anything you've done before?"
"Well, I have never done a leading role in such a successful TV show. And I have never done a drama/action series. I did action movies but Television is always very different because it involves a whole different time frame. You shoot a movie in 2 months nowadays but a TV show still takes at least one week per episode ... at least. You stick together as a crew a lot more and nothing could have prepared me for Lost, believe me!"
Denise gives Jay a knowing smile.
"Did you know any of the other actors going in? Or were you just thrown on an island with all these crazy people?"
"Practically yeah!" she laughs.
"But I have been on Love Actually together with Keira Knightley. But we never met on set there. Just on the same movie according to the credits. Other than that ... hopefully no one is mad at me now for forgetting previous encounters. I have worked with a lot of talented people!"
Jay nods. "Oh, trust me, they're all back in Hawaii thinking 'How dare she not mention me? Have my character punch her in the next episode!'," he jokes. "But your character has had a rough time of it. You're trapped there, with your ex-husband and the guy you cheated on him with. And you're getting caught in nets with pop stars. Which writer did you piss off?"
Denise laughs again.
"I guess basically everyone of them. But as you mention it that all is pretty funny as you look back on it. I mean the storyline with Sarah and her Ex-husband Jack has a lot of drama and they've just started to at least talk with each other again. No one knows what will happen if he finds out about her affair, Hamilton, being on the island too. But Matthew and Hamilton are such pals of screen that I don't expect any real drama there."
She nods.
"And yeah ... Christina! My dragnet mistress. Doing that scene was so funny! I come to set one morning seeing that dragnet being hung up in the jungle and I go like: "Oh know ... you don't expect Sarah to hunt animals with that?!" Then I read the script and went more like: "WHAT?!" But it was real fun!"
"It was certainly fun for us to watch," Jay enthusiastically agrees. "But apart from the physical and verbal cat-fights, everything's hunky-dory between you and the rest of the cast? I mean, the other girls must be jealous that you have these two hunky leading men..."
"I have them? I wished ..." Denise smirks and pulls her dress hem in place.
"Actually it is not yet settled who will end up with who. Maybe Sarah sticks with Dominic Moynaghan. Who knows. Love conquers all. And of screen we are mostly all taken so there is no rival there. We all get along pretty well. We have our fights in front of the camera so there is no need for that behind one."
"It's okay, Denise; you can tell us the truth. You don't have to use the line they made you rehearse," he insists. "Everybody's wondering what that thing is in the jungle, why did they crash there. Do you have any theories?"
"Am I such a bad actress?!" Denise attempts a pun.
"My theory is just bad luck!" she answers with played seriousity.
"I don't believe in fate or destiny. A plane goes down because of turbulences or a failure in the mechanics or the crew. But I do think that the writers are going for something a lot more mystical and will definitely surprise even me. That's the challenging part on that show, even we don't know what is to come. I could be killed by a native pygmy next day. Never know."
"Oh, no, not the pygmies!" he cries. "So we've met your ex-husband; are there any other family members that you think will be popping up on the island at some point?"
Denise laughs pointing at Jay.
"You are not asking without any hidden agenda! I know that your network is getting all the press releases. So yeah. There is also Sarah's brother on the show. Played by the charming Jensen Ackles. But he is only in flashbacks so far. Although there is some connection between him and what's going on with that island."
"Very interesting," he nods thoughtfully. "Seriously, that has gotta' be the best-looking group of plane crash survivors ever." He laughs. "Any other clues about what we might be seeing in future episodes? No more getting caught in nets?"
"Maybe ... I would be in for it anyway 'cause in no other job you get paid 2k per hour for just hanging around."
"Other than that I can assure you that as the days pass by the survivors will discover more of the island secrets and they will get aware of the fact that rescue is probably not coming. I hope that Jack and Sarah will find a way to coexist and I hope that Kate and Jack get together for the sake of making all the girls go "Awe"."
Denise tinkles her lashes like a high school girl.
"Yeah, you gotta' have some island romances. Just keep 'em away from Rachel Weisz; that woman is greedy when it comes to love interests," he whispers dramatically.
"Well Rachel knows what guys are attracted to ... and I am not talking about snakes."
"Now we only see the serious side of things, but I'm sure it's not like that all the time. I'm sure things go wrong, people flub their lines..."
"Oh that happens countless times and to be honest it's not always fun ... sometimes it gets annoying. I mean it's still work we have to do for our living. But I have a fun story to tell of screen there."
"Well, you know your secrets are safe with us, and the viewing public," he assures her, gesturing toward the audience and the cameras.
"Well, some people might know that I was renting a flat on Hawaii lately. There was this huge drama about me supposed to steal an old lady the condo away. Which is not true by the way. Anyway, before that I was staying a few weeks at a hotel while already shooting Lost. And I am surely no morning person so I was glad that most of my scenes involved daylight, sunsets or night-shots not sunrise. And I do like to sleep in. But there was this puerto rican cleaning crowd that could not read English. And every morning sharp 8 o'clock they were barging in my room wanting to clean it until they realized that it was still occupied. After a few days I went to the front desk requesting a "Do not disturb" sign on puerto rican. I went to bed and the other day sharp 8?! The cleaning crowd barges in again. The day before they had changed. The new cleaning crowd was american and could not read puerto rican!"
He laughs. "You'd think the 'No Moleste' sign would be understandable to anyone," he noted. "Maybe they saw the show and felt bad for you. They figured you could use some more fluffy white towels."
"I'm not sure if Lost is such a success in Puerto Rico ... they would more likely watch a show of 20 chinese people being stranded in the Himalaya with a lot of snow involved as they have enough beaches and palmtrees theirselves." she smirks.
"Oh, I think 'Lost' is doing okay all over the world," he says. "So what are you working on when you get a break from the show? Are you gonna' go back to movies?"
"Actually my scenes for season one are done so far. I will be back for Season 2 hopefully next year and right now I am doing a comedy movie with Pamela Anderson in Vancouver. Which shall be finished till Christmas too. Nothing else planned so far."
"And then you can enjoy some downtime with the kids. I'm sure you're looking forward to that," he says, turning to face the camera. "Watch 'Lost' on ABC, every Wednesday night, and see what the next tragedy to befall Denise's character will be." He laughs slightly, then turns back to her. "Thanks for being here."
"Thanks for having me!"
She reaches out her hand as she stands up receiving a kiss on it by Jay. She drops a slight curtsy and leaves the stage waving at the audience smiling.
Jay addresses the camera again. "When we come back, the Space Hookers will perform. You don't want to miss that. Stay tuned!"
(This time lovely Kristi did the Leno while I was performing myself
)
(Due to schedule differences aside Mr. Sarsgaard the network and he agreed to postpone his appearance on the Tonight show to 2007)
Coming back from the commercial break, Jay taps a blue note-card on his desk and glances over at the band-leader. "You know what I've noticed, Kevin? If you flip through the TV channels these days, you can just about find something for everyone. It's true. You've got the History Channel, the Game Show network, HGTV, Animal Planet. But I think that there should be more cat-fights with women caught in nets, don't you?"
"Thankfully, our next guest has worked tirelessly to correct this tragic oversight. You've seen her in 'Starship Troopers', 'Wild Things' and 'The World Is Not Enough, as well as FHM's list of the Sexiest Women in the World. Now she's a part of the cast of ABC's hit drama 'Lost'. Please welcome Denise Richards, ladies and gentlemen!" The crowd applauds as the spotlight shifts over to the curtain.
The curtain opens to both sides revealing Denise coming in smiling nicely. She attempts a slight wave at the audience walking over towards Jay who is intercepting her halfways.
They hug and Denise gives him two kisses: One on the left, one on the right cheek.
Jay returns to his seat behind the desk, giving his guest time to get settled. "Welcome, welcome," he greets. "I'm so glad they allowed you off the island for a few days."
Denise still smiles warmly sitting down too leaning on the armrest toward Jay.
"Well, I am glad to finally have an excuse to come back. Not only for the network but for myself."
"Yeah, you're a California girl. Born near Chicago, but grew up in Oceanside, so this is like homecoming for you?"
"It's actually really homecoming. You know, I still own the house in your neighborhood and my two daughters still attend their old school. I am glad it all worked out that way. But being on your show is always like homecoming." she grinned.
"So you liked the banner and everything I put up in your dressing room, right?" he joked. "You mentioned your daughters. And you film for long stretches of time out in Hawaii. Is it hard to be away from them for so long? Do they come out and visit a lot?"
"Yeah ... and I really feel bad about it sometimes. You know, being a bad mother and such. But Sam and Lola are so proud that their mother is on Lost now."
Denise smirked.
"And Charly is doing great on this too. He has them for the time I am gone and they visit me every holiday that I am not in LA. They like Hawaii just as much as I do. Tonight they are staying at Pamela's house. They get along with Brandon and Dylon, her sons, so well. I hope that will end before the four get into puberty!"
"Oh, I can just hear them on the playground. 'My mommy's a doctor.' 'Well, my mommy's on Lost'..." he says, imitating children arguing. "And they like Hawaii? Are they learning to surf and scuba dive, things like that?"
"Oh no ... I am a too scared mother for stuff like that. They aren't even allowed to go swimming in the sea because I need to have them close. I don't want them to go anywhere I couldn't go for them like ... 100% fast. In their school I am called mommy-halliburton."
He laughs. "Mommy-Halliburton? Well, maybe they could use you in Iraq. I hear the Bush administration has some new openings," he remarked with a pained expression. Changing the subject, he asks "Now, did you always want to be an actress? 'Cause you started out as a model..."
She thinks about it for a second.
"Well, when I moved to California and saw all those actresses like Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeifer ... and so on. I really pictured myself receiving an Oscar one day. I mean every girl does it I guess. Modeling was a first step then and it was great ... superficial but, you come around. Acting is a little more about what's inside of you and to bring that out to the people. That's what always appealed to me about acting."
"And it's probably more challenging than striking a pose," he observes. "You have to say words and stuff when you're acting."
Denise brakes a laugh looking at Jay oddly.
"Yeah, normally it involves these kind of actions. But I once did this commercial where is was dubbed out later. So, that was an exception. Usually I get booked to say something ... like tonight."
"And of course, we're happy to hear from you. Especially any insider info on the show, but we'll get to that later," he says with a wink. "Now, one of your previous acting jobs was as a Bond girl. You joined the exclusive club when you worked with Pierce Brosnan several years ago. Do you have an opinion on the new Bond? Do you think Dr. Christmas Jones would have gone for him?"
"Oh no ... I was getting jumped at saying my true opinion about the new bond countless times, so I surely won't make that mistake on national television!" she laughs.
"But being a bond-girl is the greatest and if they would ask me again I would surely go for it!"
"He has nice abs though ..." she adds with twitching an eye at Jay.
Jay throws up his hands in mock frustration. "Ya' see, Kevin? A nice set of abs and they'll forgive you anything!" he cries, then shakes his head. "Now 'Lost' isn't your first TV series. You've done 'Spin City', 'Melrose Place', 'Doogie Howser'...Were you prepared, or is this different from anything you've done before?"
"Well, I have never done a leading role in such a successful TV show. And I have never done a drama/action series. I did action movies but Television is always very different because it involves a whole different time frame. You shoot a movie in 2 months nowadays but a TV show still takes at least one week per episode ... at least. You stick together as a crew a lot more and nothing could have prepared me for Lost, believe me!"
Denise gives Jay a knowing smile.
"Did you know any of the other actors going in? Or were you just thrown on an island with all these crazy people?"
"Practically yeah!" she laughs.
"But I have been on Love Actually together with Keira Knightley. But we never met on set there. Just on the same movie according to the credits. Other than that ... hopefully no one is mad at me now for forgetting previous encounters. I have worked with a lot of talented people!"
Jay nods. "Oh, trust me, they're all back in Hawaii thinking 'How dare she not mention me? Have my character punch her in the next episode!'," he jokes. "But your character has had a rough time of it. You're trapped there, with your ex-husband and the guy you cheated on him with. And you're getting caught in nets with pop stars. Which writer did you piss off?"
Denise laughs again.
"I guess basically everyone of them. But as you mention it that all is pretty funny as you look back on it. I mean the storyline with Sarah and her Ex-husband Jack has a lot of drama and they've just started to at least talk with each other again. No one knows what will happen if he finds out about her affair, Hamilton, being on the island too. But Matthew and Hamilton are such pals of screen that I don't expect any real drama there."
She nods.
"And yeah ... Christina! My dragnet mistress. Doing that scene was so funny! I come to set one morning seeing that dragnet being hung up in the jungle and I go like: "Oh know ... you don't expect Sarah to hunt animals with that?!" Then I read the script and went more like: "WHAT?!" But it was real fun!"
"It was certainly fun for us to watch," Jay enthusiastically agrees. "But apart from the physical and verbal cat-fights, everything's hunky-dory between you and the rest of the cast? I mean, the other girls must be jealous that you have these two hunky leading men..."
"I have them? I wished ..." Denise smirks and pulls her dress hem in place.
"Actually it is not yet settled who will end up with who. Maybe Sarah sticks with Dominic Moynaghan. Who knows. Love conquers all. And of screen we are mostly all taken so there is no rival there. We all get along pretty well. We have our fights in front of the camera so there is no need for that behind one."
"It's okay, Denise; you can tell us the truth. You don't have to use the line they made you rehearse," he insists. "Everybody's wondering what that thing is in the jungle, why did they crash there. Do you have any theories?"
"Am I such a bad actress?!" Denise attempts a pun.
"My theory is just bad luck!" she answers with played seriousity.
"I don't believe in fate or destiny. A plane goes down because of turbulences or a failure in the mechanics or the crew. But I do think that the writers are going for something a lot more mystical and will definitely surprise even me. That's the challenging part on that show, even we don't know what is to come. I could be killed by a native pygmy next day. Never know."
"Oh, no, not the pygmies!" he cries. "So we've met your ex-husband; are there any other family members that you think will be popping up on the island at some point?"
Denise laughs pointing at Jay.
"You are not asking without any hidden agenda! I know that your network is getting all the press releases. So yeah. There is also Sarah's brother on the show. Played by the charming Jensen Ackles. But he is only in flashbacks so far. Although there is some connection between him and what's going on with that island."
"Very interesting," he nods thoughtfully. "Seriously, that has gotta' be the best-looking group of plane crash survivors ever." He laughs. "Any other clues about what we might be seeing in future episodes? No more getting caught in nets?"
"Maybe ... I would be in for it anyway 'cause in no other job you get paid 2k per hour for just hanging around."
"Other than that I can assure you that as the days pass by the survivors will discover more of the island secrets and they will get aware of the fact that rescue is probably not coming. I hope that Jack and Sarah will find a way to coexist and I hope that Kate and Jack get together for the sake of making all the girls go "Awe"."
Denise tinkles her lashes like a high school girl.
"Yeah, you gotta' have some island romances. Just keep 'em away from Rachel Weisz; that woman is greedy when it comes to love interests," he whispers dramatically.
"Well Rachel knows what guys are attracted to ... and I am not talking about snakes."
"Now we only see the serious side of things, but I'm sure it's not like that all the time. I'm sure things go wrong, people flub their lines..."
"Oh that happens countless times and to be honest it's not always fun ... sometimes it gets annoying. I mean it's still work we have to do for our living. But I have a fun story to tell of screen there."
"Well, you know your secrets are safe with us, and the viewing public," he assures her, gesturing toward the audience and the cameras.
"Well, some people might know that I was renting a flat on Hawaii lately. There was this huge drama about me supposed to steal an old lady the condo away. Which is not true by the way. Anyway, before that I was staying a few weeks at a hotel while already shooting Lost. And I am surely no morning person so I was glad that most of my scenes involved daylight, sunsets or night-shots not sunrise. And I do like to sleep in. But there was this puerto rican cleaning crowd that could not read English. And every morning sharp 8 o'clock they were barging in my room wanting to clean it until they realized that it was still occupied. After a few days I went to the front desk requesting a "Do not disturb" sign on puerto rican. I went to bed and the other day sharp 8?! The cleaning crowd barges in again. The day before they had changed. The new cleaning crowd was american and could not read puerto rican!"
He laughs. "You'd think the 'No Moleste' sign would be understandable to anyone," he noted. "Maybe they saw the show and felt bad for you. They figured you could use some more fluffy white towels."
"I'm not sure if Lost is such a success in Puerto Rico ... they would more likely watch a show of 20 chinese people being stranded in the Himalaya with a lot of snow involved as they have enough beaches and palmtrees theirselves." she smirks.
"Oh, I think 'Lost' is doing okay all over the world," he says. "So what are you working on when you get a break from the show? Are you gonna' go back to movies?"
"Actually my scenes for season one are done so far. I will be back for Season 2 hopefully next year and right now I am doing a comedy movie with Pamela Anderson in Vancouver. Which shall be finished till Christmas too. Nothing else planned so far."
"And then you can enjoy some downtime with the kids. I'm sure you're looking forward to that," he says, turning to face the camera. "Watch 'Lost' on ABC, every Wednesday night, and see what the next tragedy to befall Denise's character will be." He laughs slightly, then turns back to her. "Thanks for being here."
"Thanks for having me!"
She reaches out her hand as she stands up receiving a kiss on it by Jay. She drops a slight curtsy and leaves the stage waving at the audience smiling.
Jay addresses the camera again. "When we come back, the Space Hookers will perform. You don't want to miss that. Stay tuned!"
(This time lovely Kristi did the Leno while I was performing myself
)
Lmao, that was really well done! I loved all the winks to the RPG. hehehe