Piper Perabo is the sexy young star of such films as Coyote Ugly, Slap Her... She's French and Lost and Delirious. Her latest flick is Imagine Me & You.
On the day of her wedding, Rachel [Piper Perabo] meets Luce [Lena Heady], the florist who did the flower arrangements, but once they become friends, she starts wondering whether marrying Hector [Matthew Goode] was the right thing to do, especially when she seems to be falling for her new friend.
Check out the official site for Imagine Me & You
Daniel Robert Epstein: Did working on The Cave with Lena Headey before this help at all?
Piper Perabo: I think it did. It made me want to do some good acting with Lena Heady after I met her.
DRE: Do you think your character was gay or just in love with Lenas character?
PP: Yes, my character is in love. I think whats great about this film and progressive about it is theres no hemming and hawing about Does this make me gay? Am I gay? Am I a lesbian? What does this mean? I think were past that initial kind of thing and we can just get on to the love of people and the story.
DRE: Do you two spend a lot of time before the film getting to know each other?
PP: That was the reason for The Cave.
DRE: I think your character can be seen as a villain.
PP: Me? How dare you make such a remark. How dare you. Next question.
DRE: [laughs] Shes doing a terrible thing to that person she just married.
PP: I think love can be a terrible thing especially if you thought you knew what it was and you werent really being honest or you didnt know. When youre young and youre still figuring it out, you break some hearts while you figure out who you are and whats important to you. I guess there are people in life that fell in love just once and stayed with that person for their whole life but theyre a lucky few.
DRE: Do you think this would be a different film if she fell in love with a man?
PP: Thats what I think is interesting and why its not a Hollywood film. In a Hollywood romantic comedy the person that youre leaving behind is always slightly villainous. Its so clear to the audience who you should be with and whats interesting about this film and whats not Hollywood about it is that there is no villain, unless its me.
In America you can either do in a romantic comedies but they are usually either really romantic or really funny. But they dont get bold and thats why I like British romantic comedies.
DRE: Obviously a great scene in this film is when you guys connect during that wedding. How does one play a connection like that?
PP: I think people see the connection because people watching the film may have had moments like that in their life. You fill it up with your history of when that happened to you. The villain just lets everyone else be in love and she just stands there in a white dress.
DRE: You also played a lesbian role in Lost and Delirious. Is that just a coincidence?
PP: Plain luck. I also feel that Ive just been lucky that I found two really well written characters but they happen to be lesbians and I really didnt care who they were sleeping with.
DRE: Did anybody say Wait, you maybe shouldnt do that?
PP: Sure and my response was Yes Im going to.
DRE: What do you think lesbians reaction to this film will be?
PP: Gay friends of mine whove seen it have loved it but then maybe they were just saying that to my face but they seem genuine about it.
DRE: Do you believe in love at first sight?
PP: Yes, absolutely.
DRE: You have a lot of films coming out soon, which ones are you most excited about?
PP: It sounds so clich to say I love Imagine Me & You. Its finally feels so good to not be embarrassed about the film you really like. I also did this film with Guy Pearce called First Snow that Im really excited about.
DRE: Whos the director of First Snow?
PP: Mark Fergus and hes a first time director. It is a desolate psychological drama in Albuquerque. Really uplifting
DRE: How do you decide what to do?
PP: It depends a lot about who I would be working with. Thats not just limited to the actors but the director or the writer. If theres someone I feel like it would be interesting to make work with. To get to work with Steve Martin [on Cheaper by the Dozen], its kind of hard to say no, no matter what hes asking for. Hes so smart and so funny.
DRE: I read you just became owner of a bar, could you talk about that?
PP: Yes, its right here in Manhattan. Its called Employees Only and it is on Hudson Street and it just says EO on the sign. On the outside it is a psychic parlor and you have to know that you can just walk in, walk past the psychic and go behind her curtain and theres like a 20s bar in the back. The guys that make the drinks did all the specialty drink menus for McNallys restaurant and they take it very seriously. If you like a good cocktail, thats what youre going to get there.
DRE: Whered you get the idea for the outside to be a psychic parlor?
PP: The psychic parlor was already there and we built behind her.
DRE: Does she get more business as a result of your bar?
PP: A hell of a lot of business. Shes totally like Youre thirsty. Youre about to meet a man at a bar.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
On the day of her wedding, Rachel [Piper Perabo] meets Luce [Lena Heady], the florist who did the flower arrangements, but once they become friends, she starts wondering whether marrying Hector [Matthew Goode] was the right thing to do, especially when she seems to be falling for her new friend.
Check out the official site for Imagine Me & You
Daniel Robert Epstein: Did working on The Cave with Lena Headey before this help at all?
Piper Perabo: I think it did. It made me want to do some good acting with Lena Heady after I met her.
DRE: Do you think your character was gay or just in love with Lenas character?
PP: Yes, my character is in love. I think whats great about this film and progressive about it is theres no hemming and hawing about Does this make me gay? Am I gay? Am I a lesbian? What does this mean? I think were past that initial kind of thing and we can just get on to the love of people and the story.
DRE: Do you two spend a lot of time before the film getting to know each other?
PP: That was the reason for The Cave.
DRE: I think your character can be seen as a villain.
PP: Me? How dare you make such a remark. How dare you. Next question.
DRE: [laughs] Shes doing a terrible thing to that person she just married.
PP: I think love can be a terrible thing especially if you thought you knew what it was and you werent really being honest or you didnt know. When youre young and youre still figuring it out, you break some hearts while you figure out who you are and whats important to you. I guess there are people in life that fell in love just once and stayed with that person for their whole life but theyre a lucky few.
DRE: Do you think this would be a different film if she fell in love with a man?
PP: Thats what I think is interesting and why its not a Hollywood film. In a Hollywood romantic comedy the person that youre leaving behind is always slightly villainous. Its so clear to the audience who you should be with and whats interesting about this film and whats not Hollywood about it is that there is no villain, unless its me.
In America you can either do in a romantic comedies but they are usually either really romantic or really funny. But they dont get bold and thats why I like British romantic comedies.
DRE: Obviously a great scene in this film is when you guys connect during that wedding. How does one play a connection like that?
PP: I think people see the connection because people watching the film may have had moments like that in their life. You fill it up with your history of when that happened to you. The villain just lets everyone else be in love and she just stands there in a white dress.
DRE: You also played a lesbian role in Lost and Delirious. Is that just a coincidence?
PP: Plain luck. I also feel that Ive just been lucky that I found two really well written characters but they happen to be lesbians and I really didnt care who they were sleeping with.
DRE: Did anybody say Wait, you maybe shouldnt do that?
PP: Sure and my response was Yes Im going to.
DRE: What do you think lesbians reaction to this film will be?
PP: Gay friends of mine whove seen it have loved it but then maybe they were just saying that to my face but they seem genuine about it.
DRE: Do you believe in love at first sight?
PP: Yes, absolutely.
DRE: You have a lot of films coming out soon, which ones are you most excited about?
PP: It sounds so clich to say I love Imagine Me & You. Its finally feels so good to not be embarrassed about the film you really like. I also did this film with Guy Pearce called First Snow that Im really excited about.
DRE: Whos the director of First Snow?
PP: Mark Fergus and hes a first time director. It is a desolate psychological drama in Albuquerque. Really uplifting
DRE: How do you decide what to do?
PP: It depends a lot about who I would be working with. Thats not just limited to the actors but the director or the writer. If theres someone I feel like it would be interesting to make work with. To get to work with Steve Martin [on Cheaper by the Dozen], its kind of hard to say no, no matter what hes asking for. Hes so smart and so funny.
DRE: I read you just became owner of a bar, could you talk about that?
PP: Yes, its right here in Manhattan. Its called Employees Only and it is on Hudson Street and it just says EO on the sign. On the outside it is a psychic parlor and you have to know that you can just walk in, walk past the psychic and go behind her curtain and theres like a 20s bar in the back. The guys that make the drinks did all the specialty drink menus for McNallys restaurant and they take it very seriously. If you like a good cocktail, thats what youre going to get there.
DRE: Whered you get the idea for the outside to be a psychic parlor?
PP: The psychic parlor was already there and we built behind her.
DRE: Does she get more business as a result of your bar?
PP: A hell of a lot of business. Shes totally like Youre thirsty. Youre about to meet a man at a bar.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
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Imagine me & You was such an incredible movie, but I always love British romantic movies, and british comedies.
Cash said:
Here's an intentionally lame name-drop. I went to high school in the same town as Piper Perabo...the crosstown school. She was in their theater department. I remember seeing her in Auntie Mame. They had some technical difficulties and the show was delayed. I was also in the theater department in my school and had come with the cast of my show (I think we were doing Anythng Goes) to watch them. We got tired of waiting and bailed on them. Then, I guess to get back at us they came to OUR opening night and loudly stormed out right after the opening lines.
toms river?
my friend's mother was one of her teachers.