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Courteney Cox interview - Radio Times, July 2007 |
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The actress chatted to Jenny Eden about her latest role.
"Sex with random strangers, and hanky-panky
with sex toys - it's enough to give
strait-laced Monica Geller an attack
of the vapours.
Courteney Cox's latest incarnation, cut-throat
gossip-magazine editor Lucy Spiller in Five US's
drama Dirt, is a far cry
from her buttoned-up caterer in Friends.
She admits she was
more than a little nervous
when it came to filming
some of the many sex
scenes for her new series.
"I was tempted to use a
body double, but I'm also a
producer, so I have control. Believe me, you're
not going to see my flaws," she laughs. "I did go to
the gym a lot beforehand, but I wouldn't let any
female look bad on screen. I watch all the women
on the show to make sure they look good - and the
men, too, for that matter."
The one person who isn't allowed to watch is her
husband of eight years and Dirt co-executive
producer, David Arquette. "It would be really
brutal for my husband to watch me doing a love
scene." And did she have to warn her mother what
to expect of her new show? "Absolutely," she says.
Since Friends ended, after ten years as the most
successful show on the planet, Cox has probably
been best known as Jennifer Aniston's best mate
and agony aunt after Brad Pitt decamped from
their "Hollywood sweethearts" marriage to be with
Angelina Jolie. But behind the scenes she and her
husband have been making shows with their
production company Coquette. Dirt is the latest,
and the first to tempt her
back in front of the camera.
Dirt was inspired by the lives of Cox and her
friends, reflected in the blaze of the press's flash
bulbs. Cox
spent time with the editor of an
American magazine and with
The Sun's editor Rebekah
Wade to get a feel for the
business and what makes
the people who do it tick.
And while she agrees
that making the
papers goes with
the territory of
being a star, she
hates it when it
involves her
three-year-old
daughter, Coco.
"She asks, 'Why
are they taking
my picture?' and
I try to explain to her about being on TV, but it
scares her. Since it happened when we were coming
out of a restaurant three nights ago she's been
waking up in the middle of the night."
But it's something little Coco is almost destined
to have to get used to.
"As David's whole family are in the
entertainment business, all of them, I wouldn't
be surprised if Coco wants to become an actress,"
agrees Cox. "She definitely knows what we do.
She's very friendly and sociable, so she comes to
the set and watches the dailies with me, when it's
appropriate. I want her to do what she wants to
do, but I definitely hope she waits until she can
emotionally handle the ups and downs of it."
It's been a long time since Cox has experienced
a career down. Born into a wealthy family in
Alabama, she started off as a model, and was
the girl plucked from the audience in Bruce
Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark video. But it
was her role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,
opposite Jim Carrey, and her casting in Friends
that catapulted her into the big time.
While
making Friends she racked up the Scream movie
trilogy, where she met her husband. But before that
she starred in shows that got cancelled, took bit
parts and appeared in less-than-successful movies
she'd probably rather forget.
Her own philosophy on how to deal
with the wacky world of showbiz is simple:
"I have a very full life. I guess you can't hit
a moving target, so I just keep moving."
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Now take a look at our full Dirt guide.
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