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Star Magazine Interview
with
Ian
Somerhalder, Mark Famiglietti and Rodney Scott.
Interview took place on
December 2000.
One gloriously sunny winter’s afternoon, star caught up with the lads at the
ritzy Arygle hotel on LA’s famed, palm tree lined Sunset Strip – fave
watering hole for Johnny Depp, Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz.
 So do you guys get along?
Ian: Oh, we’ve gotten along since day one, which is rare on a show.
Mark: Don’t lie. I hate him! (Ian bursts out laughing)
What was your first day like on the set?
Mark: I remember, on the first day of shooting, Rodney and I had to walk through a
town in Baltimore in our underwear.
Ian: Yeah, that was funny.
Mark: You always see things in a script which you don’t register until you’re
doing it. Like if it says it’s raining, you really don’t register it until
your soaking wet and freezing your ass off. And it’s the same with walking
through the town in your underwear. It’s like a real town with real people and
you’re in your underwear!
Ian: And real underwear.
And you were in town in your undies because…….?
Mark: We get hazed. To get into a fraternity – a men-only club in an American
college – you have to go through an initiation process which is called hazing.
Basically, the leaders make you do stupid things to embarrass you, like walking
through a town in your underwear.
Ian: Yeah, hazing is a bull US tradition.
Mark: When I was at NYU, there was a sorority (the female equivalent) across the
street from my dorm, which I benefited from greatly. During their week of hazing
they would flash me all the time. I remember spending a whole day studying in my
dorm with my desk facing the window!
(Rodney bursts in eating a packet of crisps (chips) and licking his fingers)
What’s the worst job you had before you’re big break?
Mark: I was a dishwasher and prep cook. No, I never spat in anyone’s food. I
wasn’t jaded at that point.
Ian: I didn’t do any awful jobs cos I spent four years modeling in Europe.
Rodney: I worked as an usher at Mann’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. It
was a cool job. I got fired because I let me friends in for free – they
don’t like that too much. But I was invited to a movie premiere there, so
there I am, walking down the red carpet and I see the same people who were
working there two years ago. That was funny! Their jaw’s just dropped. It was
bittersweet, man.
Did you meet any celebs when you were working there?
Rodney: Well, I saw Leonardo DiCaprio, for starters. It was during the Titanic hype
and they held a special screening at the theatre for him and his fans. It was my
job to cater the VIP room with hotdogs, popcorn and sodas, basically anything
they wanted. There are about 20 seats up there, so there was Leo and his posse
and his mom all watching the movie. As soon as he came onto the screen, all the
girls just screamed their heads off and he got up and left with his posse.
That’s all he stayed for, just to hear his fans scream. I though that was
really arrogant.
Did you chat with him?
Rodney: Not then, but recently I went to a party he threw with Tobey Maguire at his
house. He’s a really quiet guy. Not at all how I imagined him to be. It just
goes to show how nuts Hollywood is. I mean, three years ago I’m serving him
food and the next thing I know, I’m at his party.
Was it difficult to leave your family and move to LA?
Ian: It was different for me because I had spent so much time away from home when
I was in Europe.
Rodney: It was tough. Luckily we were shooting in Maryland; that’s where I’m
from, so I saw my mom quite a bit.
Mark: His mom (points to Rodney) is an angel. She’s like set mom.
Rodney: Yeah, she hung out with us on set and brought us home cooked meals.
Do you still send her your dirty laundry?
Rodney: Well, actually I moved her out here to LA! She lives with me now. I have a
live-in maid, cook but it’s more that that – she’s great to have around.
Mark: But he has to be in bed by 11.
Do you have any siblings?
Mark: I have two stepbrothers and one stepsister.
Rodney: I am all alone. I think they had me and they were line “Jesus, God,
Almighty – that’s enough”. I did ask my parents for a brother once and
they gave me a Cabbage Patch doll. (Everyone cracks up) You get the little
adoption slip and everything. They said “Here’s your brother. His name is
Rosco”.
Did you bathe him and change his nappy?
Rodney: I just hung out with him, you know what I mean? I remember it so clearly. It
was outside Washington DC where my parents got divorced. It was my turn to spend
the weekend with my dad and he drove a pick-up truck to collect me, and I had
the Cabbage Patch kid in the back.
When was the last time you went out largin’ it?
Rodney: I don’t drink that much, but Marky-boy has had some memorable boozing
experience’s, haven’t you?
Mark: I’m just going to disappear now.
Rodney: Mark doesn’t even know about this; he was so smashed!
Ian: Oh man, this is the best story. I was working so I missed it.
Rodney: When we went to David Boreanaz birthday party in NY, there was champagne,
beer; it was a free bar. We sat at this table and they brought out the birthday
cake and everyone’s singing the song….when I see Mark unbuttoning his shirt
and heavy breathing in David’s face. He shouts “Here’s your birthday
present!”. In front of everyone, he unzips his pants and starts to pull out
his wiener, right on the cake! I don’t know what he was going to do but we
left shortly afterwards because we had to be on set at six am.
Do you have girlfriends?
Ian: I’m the only one who does.
Is she an actress?
Ian: No, not all all. It’s perfect that she’s not in the business. She’s my
saviour. She’s amazing. I like the fact that you don’t have to deal with the
business side all the time. And she’s cool about me kissing other actresses
on-screen. Her name is Sarah Malatesta. It means Bad head in Italian.
Mark: Yeah, Sarah the bruiser!
Ian: No, she’s absolutely wonderful.
How did you two meet?
Mark: Because she left her laundry in the dryer and he put it on regular and it was
delicate and her panties shrank.
Ian: No! The reason she never spoke to me was because I wanted to talk to her so
much that I was sort of aggressive in getting to know her. And so she wasn’t
interested. She’s in college at the moment and the work is really demanding
and she doesn’t let new people into her life.
Do you think guys play games in relationships?
Ian: I think game playing is total bullshit. It’s a huge LA thing. You need pure
honesty.
Mark: I think everyone plays games to a certain extent. It’s the Evita complex.
Each lover uses the other lover to get certain positions and status, money,
wealth and power.
Rodney: I think everyone plays games and if I ever found a girl who didn’t, I’d
be scared to death (Everyone cracks up).
Is it hard to meet decent women in LA?
Mark: I think so, yeah. Real, honest girls are hard to come by here.
Ian: If you not somebody here, you’re nobody here.
Have any of you had the pleasure of meeting our Queen?
Rodney: London rocks man! We had the best time there. Me and Mark went there a few
months ago to do some promotional work.
Mark: I have to confess I am not a big fan of mushy peas!
Do you like British girls?
Rodney: Oh, yeah! I’m from Maryland where the people are real. They don’t care
what you look like or how you dress, you know what I mean? You could sit down
and talk without anyone going “So are you an actor?”. And that’s what it
was like in London. The women were kind of gritty. They tell you how it is. If
you order a shot, they take a shot with you. It’s great, man. I dug them. I
could totally live in London.
What do you think about girls who sleep with guys on the first date?
Mark: God bless ‘em.
Ian: It would turn me off a little bit.
Rodney: I don’t know. I’ve never slept with a girl on a first date.
Mark: You don’t get the date.
Are you put off by girls who make the first move?
Ian: You’re like, “Hang on a minute, your messing up my game-playing!”.
Rodney: It’s nice. I feel bad for beautiful women, because a lot of guys are
intimidated by them.
Mark: Rodney thinks he’s the saviour of beautiful women. He belongs to the church
of divine intervention.
Which celebrity would you most like to date?
Ian: I’m not dating right now, I’m in love with my girlfriend – but Mark
wants a date with Katie Holmes.
Mark: I don’t know her but I wish she’d call me. I think she’s very
attractive.
Rodney: I know her from doing some episodes of Dawson’s Creek. I am very intrigued
by Natalie Portman. Her personality and that fact that I know she's very
intelligent is a big turn on.
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