30 de septiembre de 2008

[[ARTICLES]] Selma Blair on Kath & Kim

Published September 30, 2008 in Television

By Fred Topel | Image property of NBC

Selma Blair plays Kim, the daughter of the Kath & Kim duo. She is actually only eight years younger than Molly Shannon, who plays her mother, Kath. If critics won't suspend disbelief, Blair has some sarcastic words for them.

Selma Blair is Kim

"In the original [Australian] show, the two actresses are the same age," said Blair. "Actresses play different people all the time. It's weird. It's this thing called acting, and so you just, like, play different characters that aren't your age or anything. I mean, I think. I don't know. Dakota Fanning was unavailable so they were like, 'Dakota Fanning, Selma Blair, that makes sense, perfect sense.' If you squint your eyes when you're watching it and you don't put it on hi-def, if you're, like, squinting and put some Vaseline on your eyeballs, I look so young."

Getting serious, perhaps Blair's actual age speaks to the philosophical state of Kim. "My character's really in a state of arrested development, which I see all the time. People don't want to grow up, so it's part of the humor that my character could be 20, she could be 30, she could be 40, and she's in her clothes from when she was in seventh grade and thinks that that's hot. We see it all the time, and we see it in the tabloids, people not dressing their ages, mothers of famous people not dressing their ages with their children. My character loves that and looks up to those people, and so it's part of the humor that we're the same age as actresses. Our characters adore these people or at least we are fascinated by them. So it's part of the humor that our ages are confusing, because that's part of this culture. You couldn't tell what age I am. My character could be 40 or she could be 12. You just have no idea. She's demented."

As part of her underage look, Blair will be rockin' some awesome hair. "My hair is not the correct length right now. I actually wore extensions for the pilot and ripped them out when I started to do Hellboy promotions. I'm having this question of whether I'll be wearing a wig or putting extensions in. I think extensions win because you can do more with it. Hopefully they will be done correctly. I think I'll be getting Russian hair instead of the Indonesian one last time. If I get a wig, it will be a three-quarter wig because apparently I have a very low forehead line, which a lot of people comment on all the time. I am apparently from the monkey family. I hear that all the time. People are either rats or monkeys. I'm a monkey. I know. Look at your friends. You're all either a rat or a monkey. It's true."

With a very successful film career going, Blair sought out a television show. "The decision was easy. I was away shooting Hellboy II when I decided to do this show. I wanted to be here and it was great material and there's not that much great material for a girl that's a little past her prime, you know. It was great writing and it was a character. I just really wanted to play someone that was different than me. Now, I find that she's not that different from me, so that's weird."

Kath & Kim premieres October 9 on NBC.

23 de septiembre de 2008

[[KATH AND KIM]] On Set - Candids, Selma wearing a pink dress

[[KATH AND KIM]] Selma Blair is Kath & Kim Cute

Selma Blair films a scene with costars Molly Shannon and Mikey Day for their upcoming comedy, Kath & Kim, in Los Angeles earlier this month.

The series is based off of the award-winning Australian television comedy series of the same name. The season premiere is on Thursday, October 9th @ 8:30OM ET/PT on NBC. For more information, visit NBC.com/KathAndKim.

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[[KATH AND KIM]] On Set - Candids, LA Mall

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Personal Trivia

During high school she went by the name Blair because she hated her first name. She is still not comfortable with her age at the name of 36. She says, "I've always thought of it as an old woman's name, so I demanded that everyone call me Blair. In high school, when people found out my name was Selma, they'd call me things like Smell-ma or Salmonella. That stuff basically came from friends, and I never really had any enemies, so I just kind of smiled through it. "I still don't like my name. It does not fall prettily off the tongue. In fact, it's hideous. My middle name is James, and I like to be called that."
She has been romantically linked to Jason Schwartzman of Rushmore Fame.
In her sparetime, Selma collects black-and-white photography. She also enjoys horseback riding, and loves snow jumping.
Blair's intention for her future was to become a photographer. She had some macabre ideas as to what would make a good shot. She explains, "I didn't have many models I was comfortable asking to pose for me, so I did a lot of self-portraits. "I didn't want them to look as if they were of me, so I made myself up like (artist) Magritte's mother, who drowned herself and was supposedly found with her nightdress wrapped around her head. "I took a bunch of self-portraits in that state and some very macabre, victim-y ones, in which I'd torn off my clothes, found a ditch at the side of the road and jumped in."
Selma has a reputation for becoming every publicist's nightmare by talking about anything and everything during an interview.

College Trivia

During her time at the Kalamazoo she did a play called "The Little Theater of the Green Goose"
Selma studied acting at the famous Stella Adler acting school

Movie Trivia

She wore a very large pair of fake breasts to play a stripper in the movie A Dirty Shame (2004), directed by John Waters.
She guest starred as Wendy in an episode of Friends.
Blair is uncredited for her role on Scream 2 (She played a voice on the phone.)
Selma appeared in the USA Network's movie No Laughing Matter
Selma is going to be a producer in an upcoming film called "The 1 Second Film"
Didn't rehearse for the kissing scene with SMG.
Hellboy black Prada dress sold for $178 on Ebay.

Projects Selma did not get

# Dawson Creek :: Joey Porter.
Blair and Holmes were battling it out with another young actress for the part - and the Hellboy star was confident she'd land it.
She says, "Holmes got it fair and square... (but) I remember seeing her walk into the (audition) room and thinking, 'She is just the tallest girl. There's no way they'll give it to her. She won't even fit on camera.' Then I ate my words. She was adorable."

Misc Trivia

Selma likes animals. She volunteered at an animal shelter caring for stray dogs. For their August 2002 issue, Seventeen magazine was doing an article about her and they photographed her with some of these dogs.
She has a one eyed dog named Wink.
Selma & Ahmet'swedding was originally meant to take place at the Ritz-Carlton in nearby Marina Del Rey, but the couple changed locations at the last minute.
According to People magazine, the bride wore a white satin tailor-made Karl Lagerfeld gown while the groom wore a black suit. For the reception, Blair changed into a black version of the same dress as the 70-plus guests danced to disco tunes and dined on grilled salmon and a three-layer coconut wedding cake.
She was ranked #93 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2004.