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 Leslie Bibb
Interview By: Michael Dance Leslie Bibb is one of the rare actresses to get steady work in TV and film. She can do comedy and drama; she hasn't appeared in the tabloids or any reality shows; and she's managed to stay under the radar without falling off the face of the earth. The ability to stay out of the tabloids is perhaps most surprising: when you're as attractive as Bibb is, and you got your big break playing a bitchy teen goddess in the TV drama Popular, you could fall into that trap rather easily. Bibb, though, insists she's as normal as possible, and is uncomfortable with the behavior of the Lohans of the world. "People are like, 'Well, I'm just being a real person!'" she says. "But it's like -- people look up to you. That's the price of admission with this job. I'm not saying you can't screw up. People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl. That's why I love Gwyneth - she's a normal girl." She's speaking of course of Gwyneth Paltrow, her co-star - and in some ways, romantic rival - in the new blockbuster Iron Man. In the superhero flick, Bibb plays a reporter named Christine Everhart who interviews - and then is summarily seduced by - Tony Stark, the playboy billionaire and weapons manufacturer played by Robert Downey, Jr. (Paltrow plays Pepper Potts, his loyal assistant.) "With Christine, she has a very strong sense of right and wrong, of good and evil, and I loved her passion," Bibb says. "Like, she becomes the conscience of the of the movie, in some way. Every time she appears, she's holding up a mirror to Tony saying, 'Hey pal, why don't you drink a cup of clue and be accountable.' It's like the spin on politics right now. You watch Fox News, and it's going this way. You watch the Colbert show or the Jon Stewart show, and it's going this way. It's all this spin and she's saying, let's cut that away. She's saying to Tony, yes, you can say you're saving lives, but you're also killing lives. Yes you can say you're liberating people, or you can also say you're making money from killing people. So I loved that passion in her." It's true, Christine does call Tony out - but then, of course, she sleeps with him. "Yeah, she's dark and flawed, and she ends up in the sack with him," Bibb says. "She didn't sleep with him for a story, but she got into [his mansion], and she looks around. It's definitely like, what could you get? And I love that turn when you see Pepper ... |
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