Interview mit Katie

Hier ist ein aktuelles Interview von MSN Entertainment mit Katie Holmes. Katie spricht darin über ihren neuen Film "Abandon", ihren Heimatort Toledo und über ihre Familie. Außerdem räumt sie endlich mit einem alten Gerücht auf: Ihr Freund Chris Klein und sie haben momentan keine konkreten Pläne für eine Hochzeit!

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The Abandon beauty on nudity, nuptials and her post-Dawson plans By Angela Dawson

Entertainment News Wire LOS ANGELES -- For five years, Katie Holmes has played sensitive and supportive Joey Potter on the popular WB series Dawson's Creek. But meeting the demands of a dramatic TV series hasn't kept the 23-year-old actress from pursuing a film career. Her latest picture, Abandon, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Traffic), is Holmes' latest suspense-thriller (following Teaching Mrs. Tingle and The Gift). In Abandon, Holmes stars as a Ivy League college student facing extreme pressure to excel academically so she can land the ideal job and live up to everyone's expectations. Meanwhile, she's trying to come to grips emotionally with the loss of her boyfriend, who vanished two years earlier. The charming brunette sits down with Entertainment News Wire on the eve of the film's Hollywood premiere. Dressed comfortably in a beige turtleneck sweater and jeans, she gamely discusses her life, her career and her new film, which co-stars hunky Benjamin Bratt. Entertainment News Wire: You play a character named Katie. Was that weird? Holmes: Not really. It's a character. I didn't really think about it. ENW: What attracted you the role? Holmes: I read the script two years ago around this time. I just thought the characters were so well written. I thought it was very interesting to set a psychological thriller in a college setting full of pressures. That world of higher learning -- and especially the most competitive schools, like Harvard and Yale -- is a very interesting one. People in their early 20s are trying to figure out what they're going to be under a lot of pressure. There are a lot of stories yet to be told about that life. ENW: How is Gaghan as a first-time director? Holmes: He did a wonderful job. He's very hard on himself. From my perspective, all of my needs were met. He was very supportive and just wonderful to work with. I saw the movie and was very excited to have been a part of that. He did a great job, and I'm very proud of him. ENW: When did you shoot the film? Holmes: About a year and a half ago. ENW: How did that work out in terms of your schedule with the TV series? Holmes: It was a very stressful time getting this movie together, because it was during the time when they thought there was going to be a (Screen Actors Guild) strike. So they had to start after I was finished with the show and before the strike. I wrapped Dawson's Creek that year at the beginning of April and we started shooting the film right away, right up until the deadline for the strike, which of course didn't happen. ENW: So your character is under a lot of pressure, and you were under a lot of pressure at that time. Holmes: It was a crazy year but so worth it. ENW: Do you think this will be the last season of Dawson's Creek? Holmes: I don't know for sure. I think it will be. Nothing's in writing. It'll be interesting to see. On the one hand, we've told a lot of stories. We've spent six years with these characters, and it's probably time to finish it and say goodbye. But on the other hand, it's a wonderful job, and it's been a great time. I've really enjoyed everyone I've worked with in playing this part and living in North Carolina. Whenever the time is that it ends, it'll be bittersweet. ENW: Do you ever get overwhelmed? How do you cope with the pressure? Holmes: Yes, I do get overwhelmed. I'll go for a swim or a run or talk to my family. I try to take deep breaths, because life can be overwhelming. I try to stay levelheaded, but I'm young. I try to remove myself from the situation and do something different and just relax. ENW: You attended Columbia University for a semester, right? Holmes: Yes. I went there during the summertime and took a photography class, so it doesn't really count. ENW: Was there anything you could draw from that experience or previous school experience to help you in this role? Holmes: In this movie we definitely created a world that I wasn't that familiar with. I've visited the Harvard and Columbia campuses. But in the past couple of years I've heard the pressure to succeed academically has increased. Students have their whole day mapped out. They meet with their friends for five minutes because then they have their next scheduled activity. It's fascinating to me. I related to this character with the pressures in my life. I went to a very competitive all-girls academy in Toledo (Ohio) where there was a degree of pressure, but I've never really known this type of world. ENW: You play a bright, ambitious character on Dawson's Creek. Did that help you shape the overachiever you play in this film? Holmes: All of my different acting experiences in the past six years have helped. You learn a little bit with each project. I really wanted to make sure that Katie was different than anyone I played before. ENW: What was it like working with Benjamin Bratt? Holmes: It was wonderful. It's nice to be in the company of an actor who had more experience and was older and wise. ENW: Your character has this magnetic personality. She attracts men almost unconsciously. Did that just come naturally? Holmes: Oh yes, it's just natural. That's under "special skills" on my resume. (Laughs) We tried to downplay any sort of glamorized look. With the wardrobe, we tried to have it very natural. Katie's someone lost in her own thoughts. What I noticed is that she appears so together, and that's what attracts people who feel like they're not. She's not really either, but she doesn't allow anyone inside to see that. She never shows it. That was one of her attractive qualities, that she seemed so in control, so uninterested in anyone else. She's great at hard to get. ENW: How did you feel about showing skin in one scene where Katie is getting dressed in front of her roommate? Holmes: I didn't even think about it that much. But people have been bringing it up, so I'm a little nervous, because my dad and my boyfriend are going to see it. When we shot it, it made so much sense to me, because it said something about her relationship with her roommate. That's how girls are. It said so much about her. She's so in her head and not seeing what's going on around her. She doesn't have time to go to the bathroom and primp. She's the type of person that just throws her clothes on, pulls her hair back and looks amazing. I never thought about it. I'm used to dressing in front of my sisters. ENW: How do you feel about it? Holmes: I don't look to show skin. But with The Gift, that was a more difficult decision to make, but I did feel strongly about the importance of it. With this, I was covered. It's kind of like being in a bathing suit. ENW: You've worked with high profile directors like Ang Lee, Sam Raimi, Curtis Hanson and Joel Schumacher. Do you seek them out, or have you just been lucky? Holmes: A little of both. I've definitely been blessed on the timing of things. With (Hanson's) Wonder Boys and (Raimi's) The Gift, I did those while shooting Dawson's Creek. Fortunately it worked out. My agent and I are constantly looking to find things for me to audition for that are very different from Dawson's Creek, that will teach me. With Wonder Boys, The Gift and The Singing Detective, which I made over the summer, they were such wonderful experiences, because I was surrounded by these people that have been doing it forever and are so good. When you work with somebody that's better than you then you get better. ENW: Where do you live now? Holmes: North Carolina. ENW: Where do you consider home? Holmes: Toledo, Ohio. My whole family has moved back there. My parents have a huge white house with ivy. And now they have grandkids. (Holmes' older sisters are married.) It's such a wonderful place to be. When the show ends, I'll have to figure out where I'm going to go. ENW: You've been dating Chris Klein for three years. Any wedding bells yet? Holmes: No. Quelle: MSN.com