New Interviews

Reese Witherspoon doesn’t act as if she has become one of Hollywood’s major players. Petite and unassuming, she has little make up and looks pretty wearing a pink, cashmere sweater. Perhaps it is motherhood that has brought 25-year old down to earth, following her instant star-making turn in the unexpectedly successful Legally Blonde.

Interview: Jennifer Love Hewitt could not be happier. The beautiful 23-year old is not only hitting the road promoting her new album, but is equally busy talking up her new film The Tuxedo, an action comedy which casts her opposite Jackie Chan. Trying to balance both a singing and acting career is challenging, but Hewitt seems to be up to the challenge.

Rapper Eve (Barbershop) (a.k.a. Eve of Destruction and Eve Jihan) may be huge in the music scene but now she’s about to break through on the big screen. The former vocalist for Ruff Ryders, whose solo album Eve-Olution has just been released, holds her own opposite Ice Cube in the ensemble comedy Barbershop, opening later in September.

Erika Christensen (Swimfan) is rapidly emerging as one of Hollywood’s major new talents. From Traffic to The Banger Sisters and now Swimfan, Erika is excelling at not exactly being the nice girl next door, and she’s having a blast, as she tells

John Polson (Swimfan) is an acclaimed actor, the founder of the internationally acclaimed Tropfest Short Film Festival, and now, John Polson, calls New York home, as he embarks on a career as a major Hollywood director. First up is the teen thriller Swimfan, which hits theatrical shores on September 5.

Jesse Bradford (Swimfan) is one of Hollywood’s hot young stars. An actor since he made his debut in a Q-Tip TV ad at the age of eight months, Jesse first earned attention for his work in James Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1996), and made a splash as Kirsten Dunst's would-be boyfriend in Bring It On (2000).

It has been quite the year for Oscar-winner Robin Williams, playing a gallery of dark characters, but none quite like his Sy in One Hour Photo, a performance that may well garner him another Oscar nomination. From a character so shut off to his irreverent return to stand up comedy, Robin Williams may well have proven that he is a true actor, which is why when we spoke, he was at his most focused.

Ving Rhames, who stars as a world heavyweight boxing champ incarcerated for rape, said that he had no difficulty playing prisoner, surrounded by both real-life and fictionalized criminals. “I grew up around criminals, so it was comfortable,” Rhames explains when discussing how difficult it was shooting Undisputed in an actual prison.

Vin Diesel, XXX There was a time when you could not shut up Vin Diesel. The 35-year old native New Yorker, who first attained recognition through his work in the likes of Saving Private Ryan and Pitch Black, is now more guarded and surprisingly introspective. More questioning than he once was when the actor first began giving interviews for Ryan, Diesel enjoys responding to one’s questions with another question. That, it seems, is Diesel’s new media trademark, a way perhaps to deflect attention away from the star, or a means to seek approval from a prying press. His latest film, XXX, casts Diesel as an initially reluctant secret agent in the visceral Hollywood actioner.

Rob Cohen may be 53 but he has a youthful pulse on Hollywood. Following last year’s unexpected hit The Fast and the Furious, Cohen is back on Hollywood’s A-list as a formidable director who knows just how to reach today’s young audiences. In this exclusive one-on-one chat with PAUL FISCHER, Cohen talks frankly about his run-ins with anti-Semitism as a child, and how his unconventional life paved the way for him to become one of Hollywood’s powerful filmmakers.

It’s apparent that Christian Slater has mellowed over the years. Long gone is the carousing brat once charged with beating up his girlfriend. Now a father of two, Slater is happily married to Ryan Haddon for the past two years. Preferring to act in ensembles rather than star in his own vehicles, the latest example of that is the World War 2 drama, Windtalkers, in which his character forges a bond with a Navajo Native American.

It’s hard to believe that Tom Cruise is about to turn 40. Far more relaxed and good-spirited than the last time we met for Vanilla Sky, the perennially youthful Cruise has been on top of his game for close to two decades, but has no fears about entering this new decade of his life. “I get asked about turning 40 a lot, and to be quite honest, I haven’t really been thinking about it. You get so busy with your kids and work, but when you’re a teenager or in your twenties, your common thought is: Where am I going to be? I just hoped that I would just keep developing and have the opportunities to make different kinds of movies and hopefully just SURVIVE the flush of when you first start working.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Scooby Doo Interview. Sometimes it’s not easy being in both a hit television series and shooting a major feature film in Australia. Denying rumours that her seven-year old Buffy was coming to an end, Geller recalls that while shooting Scooby Doo, the live action version of the classic animated series, Geller recalls “doing two weeks on Buffy and then I would do two weeks in Australia and then two weeks on Buffy.” At least her blonde Scooby look was all wig.

Matt Damon may be one of Hollywood’s leading men, but he remains equally selective about the work he chooses. Currently treading the boards in London, Damon delivers a complex performance in the cerebral thriller The Bourne Identity, as a man trying to figure out his identity while being hunted by the CIA.

Kirsten Dunst is not one to shock easily as her often girlish demeanor suggests. However, on her recent trip to Australia where she conducted some early interviews for Spider-Man, she was appalled at the extent that the local media went to in prying into her private life.

Beautiful and elegant, Ashley Judd (High Crimes) is sporting a large diamond ring, symbol of her recent marriage to racing car driver Dario Franchitti in a fairy tale ceremony in Scotland at Skibo Castle in Edinburgh, the same castle that hosted Madonna’s wedding to Guy Ritchie a year earlier.

After being critically lauded in Vanilla Sky, beautiful and luminous Cameron Diaz is back on screen in familiar territory, starring I the sometimes gross-out screwball romantic comedy, The Sweetest Thing.

A few years ago Ovidie (The Pornographer) was a well-off, happily married philosophy student. Then her feminism and love of choreography led her to star in adult movies. She explains how.