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Interview By: Dan Deevy
“Wow, I just saw Dawson masturbating!” was the first thought that entered my mind as I left the theater. That’s right, squeaky clean Dawson Leery lets it all hang out in The Rules of Attraction. After six years on the WB’s Dawson’s Creek and several tame feature films, actor James Van Der Beek finally gets down and very dirty in this adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Taking on the character of Sean Bateman, younger brother to Patrick Bateman of American Psycho would not be an easy thing for any teen pop star to do. For actor James Van Der Beek, however, it was something he knew he had to do. Dividing his weeks between shooting on Dawson’s Creek in North Carolina and filming Rules in Los Angeles, seriously wore the actor down. “When I actually got the opportunity to do this movie, come hell or high water I was going to do this thing and put everything I had into it. By the end of it I was exhausted,” James says. “But I was really happy with the finished product.” One of the most talked about scenes in the movie involves a steamy encounter between James’ character Sean and Paul Denton, played by super hot finally being noticed, Ian Somerhalder. “I really liked that scene when I first read it,” he says. “I loved the fact that it was Paul’s fantasy about how Sean would act. In his ideal world this is how Sean would be.” In split screen style, the audience gets to watch as Paul’s fantasy is played out on one side, while simultaneously and rather painfully watching what is actually occurring on the other; which unfortunately for Paul isn’t much. But now that James has actually kissed a man on screen, questions of course begin to arise. “People have been asking me, ‘aren’t you afraid that people are going to say your gay?’ he says with a smirk. “Of all the things that my character does in this film, if a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.” Initially, James had hoped that the now infamous ‘kiss’ would actually remain a secret and be a surprise for movie goers. But we all know something like that was going to be pretty hard to keep under wraps. “It was funny because it was so not a big deal. I mean it was the first time I ever had to do a scene like that; where I’ve had to kiss a guy,” James says almost whispering the last part. “But we only did one take of actual kissing and it was over in like ten seconds. It was really a much smaller deal than I thought it would be.” (Looking into those crystal clear blue eyes of his, made me ... |
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