Selma Blair has admitted that she was once mistaken for Tom Cruise. The actress says she is trying to be more girlie to counteract her Tom Cruise-style hairstyle.
She reveals: “I had long hair for a while. Almost down to my waist but I wanted to go back to my Tom Cruise cut. I told my hairdresser to shave the back and leave the front long.
“Then someone thought I was Tom from the back. I guess I’d better wear heels.”
We're not seeing it - Tom is way more feminine than Selma.
I'll give them kudos for casting the beautiful and talented Blair opposite Shannon. And just never you mind that Shannon is 43 and Blair 35. Eight year olds get pregnant all the time in this country. All the time! Who are you to judge. Shame on you! Maybe they were raised in the Spears family.
The show, based on an award-winning Australian series, focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between a mother, Kath (Shannon), and her daughter, Kim (Blair). It's been a high priority at NBC for a while: The network first picked up the pilot a year ago, and NBC entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman was talking it up way back at last summer's TCA, but it was reportedly tough to find the right actresses for the leads. The series comes from Silverman's production company, Reveille, which also adapted The Office and Ugly Betty for US television.
This is Blair's first regular TV role since her breakout appearance as Zoe on the WB's Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane back in 1999. Can you see her playing Shannon's daughter? To watch part of an original Kath and Kim episode, just read more
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Selma Blair is on a strict diet after gaining 20 pounds while shooting her new movie.
The actress, who filmed 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' in Hungary, resorted to eating comfort food to combat the cold weather and ended up looking like a "puffer fish".
She said: "I really binged on food in Budapest. It was so cold and we were shooting nights. The director says that in one half of the film I look boney and in the other half like a puffer fish. It's the most unprofessional thing I have ever done on a movie.
"So I gained 20 pounds and now I have to work out - and diet!"
Selma also insists she is proud of her "quirky" movie roles and has no desire to star in romantic comedies.
She said: "I get cast in character roles because I don't look like a leading lady. Maybe in Europe I'd be like Samantha Morton or Charlotte Gainsbourg. But I didn't choose my quirky career - it chose me.
"I don't have the face to constantly radiate leading lady energy. There is only one Reese Witherspoon and there is only one Julia Roberts. I don't fit into that mould. And do you know what else? I don't want to."
Hollywood.com: Kath and Kim is an adaptation of an Australian comedy. What can you tell us about the show?
SB: I play Kim. I play the daughter. Molly Shannon plays the mother. And no, [our ages don't] have to make sense mathematically. The original version, Gina and Jane, they are the same age. It’s like a satire. They’re comedians. It doesn’t have to be accurate. We’re actresses. But, yeah. I play this very self-absorbed – that’s not very difficult – daughter. Who is – you know, obsessed with tabloids and celebrities, and all that stuff. And it takes place in Florida.
HW: How did you get involved in the show?
SB: I know that they were having a lot of trouble finding their Kim. They just couldn’t find a girl that was right. I talked to Michelle Nader who was the producer and writer on the phone, I said “Listen I think it is really a girl that wants to be like Britney Spears and wants to be like this pop star and thinks she is this pop star, but she is too little, too late, too old, just doesn’t get it. We just talked about all these ideas and everything that’s wrong with American culture and just everything she thinks that is right. So I came home and I fought for it.
SB: Yeah. I’m married to a great actor, Mikey Day. And he works at the Best Buy. I’m a trophy wife, I think.
HW: So it’s typecasting, obviously.
SB: Yeah, yeah, yeah [laughs]. I still wear my clothes from when I was 13. I think I’m a really big deal. I’m not. Everything’s too tight on me. You know, I think I’m gorgeous. I’m not.
HW: What’s the tone of the show?
SB: Well, we just shot the pilot. It’s kind of like, shot almost documentary style. It’s kind of shot like The Office, or Arrested Development…it’s funny but a little dry, a little weird.
