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Recently Released In Theaters Reviews
2008 FALL MOVIE PREVIEW Blindness How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Flash of Genius Beverly Hills Chihuahua Forever Strong Eagle Eye Miracle at St. Anna Choke Nights in Rodanthe My Best Friends Girl Lakeview Terrace Battle in Seattle Igor Recently Added Spotlights Clark Gregg Sean Faris Charlize Theron Stuart Townsend Justin Hartley Samuel L. Jackson Patrick Wilson Kerry Washington Meg Ryan Jada Pinkett Smith Eva Mendes Debi Mazar Alan Ball Nicolas Cage Anna Faris |
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 Jenna Fischer
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo Who knew working as a dowdy receptionist would have turned Jenna Fischer into one of the hottest comedic actresses around? She plays The Office’s shy-yet-loveable Pam, who along with John Krasinski’s Jim makes up TV’s most adorable pair. The role earned Fischer an Emmy-nomination this year and opened the door to movie roles in funny flicks like Blades of Glory and this month’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Always down-to-earth as evidenced by her personal interaction with fans via her popular MySpace blog and her comfortable distance from the glamorized Hollywood spotlight, it’s no wonder that Fischer has become the kind of relatable success we all root for. If you’ve read her blog or seen her do interviews you’ll know that she still gets excited over the little things, is best friends with her co-stars (namely The Office’s resident uppity accountant Angela Kinsey), and genuinely enjoys shopping at Target! So when she expresses her gratefulness for her first lead role along John C. Reilly in Walk Hard, you truly believe her positive spirit. The role of sexpot singer and Dewey Cox’s second wife Darlene was a departure from the demure Pam, and it was one she was surprised to get. “When they sent me the script I assumed they wanted me to read for Edith; that’s what I wanted to read for,” she says. “She’s sort of like the put-upon wallflower first wife, but they already had Kristen Wiig. So when I went into the audition they asked me to read Darlene. I just didn’t see myself that way and I had to get over a lot of my own personal shyness in order to do that. But it was good. Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life, and so this was kind of my chance to be in the spotlight and revel in the spotlight and be very flashy with my costumes and my hair and makeup. I had to find that part of me that enjoyed that.” Once she got into the role, though, it became a freeing experience. “The role was definitely liberating, that’s for sure,” Fischer says. “I’m typically like if you go to the beach I’m like the last one to take my cover-up off and I’m like the first one to grab a towel. I’m getting out of the water and the towel is getting soaked on the bottom; I’m trying to like put it on before I’m really out of the water. So I’m very shy in that way so for me to be like having the cleavage out and the tight costumes—even just the attention to my physical self that was necessary to play a role like this. Pam is really an inside-out kind of girl and kind of character. She’s a real thinker and she’s a feeler. Darlene starts from the outside and then when you get ... |
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