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| Here's the interview from The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Breckin: What's up? Jay: How you doing? Good to see you! I was thinking this was your first time, but you did the show when you were a little kid, right? Breckin: I did the show when i was 13, I was in a skit when Johny was doing the show. Jay: Thats cool. B: I was in the Lost Honeymoon Episode was found. They did a lost Tonight Show and I was in Docaspan playing the saxaphone. J: Really? B: Yeah, so it was ay big. J: So you did alot of commercials, lot of acting? B: Yay big. Yeah yeah. I started doing commercials. It was one of my first things. J: Yeah, so your from here.... B: Yeah i was born in Minnesota but moved here when I was two. With my family. J:I really haven't met anybody who actually went to Beverly Hills High School, because when you grow up back east its always like "Ooh! Beverly Hills High School!" B: Yeah the TV show! J: And they all have these Ferraris! Everyone's got these! B: Yeah and it was! Well I didn't have it. J: No? B: Well I didn't live in Beverly Hills! J: Well how could you go to Beverly Hills High School? B: I was lieing! Really I was! Uh... yeah. J: What do you mean you were lieing? B: I lied about my address so I could go there. Because any other public schools, I'd get beat up alot, and you know. J: Aww, why'd you get beat up alot? I don't find you annoying at all! You seem very nice! B: You get to know me! J: Well I guess once you get to know you, yeah! B: Once you get to know me I'm awful, yeah. J: Awful, yeah! B: You'll beat me up! J: Now wait... this is fascinating to me! So you would lie about your address? B: I lied about my address and uh... really because you have to have your name on the lease somewhere, so we got a friend to put my name on the lease there because I was constantly afraid of being found out. J: Were you? B: Yeah, I was for three years. J: So you owe Beverly Hills about a thousand? B: Yeah, I owe a couple bucks! Yeah. J: Now how about your mom? Was your mom in on this? B: Well, well yeah...yeah. She was against it. It was all me, I swear! It wasn't my mom. J: Oh, okay! So you were in with all the rich guys. I mean what did you do when people wanted to come over to your house? B: Well that was the thing! I was so afraid of being found out I didn't do anything! I would just eat lunch in my car in the parking structure all by myself. Just listening to Kenny Loggin's Foot Loose soundtrack or something. J: Right, right. B: Just alone, you know. J: But see, that's what I like about Beverly Hills. The poor kids eat lunch in their car in the parking structure. B: Yeah, exactly! J: Yeah. B: Yeah they're in the parking structure! J: Yeah see... B: Yeah yeah! J: Yeah, how many high schools even have a parking structure? B: Yeah, thats true! Yeah! J: With ballet parking! B: Yeah with ballet guys! J: Yeah ballet guys! B: Yeah, but see I would duck down a little bit, but when I graduated I found out a whole bunch of people were doing it! And I could have had friends! I could have hung out! J: Did you have a girlfriend at the time? B: No, no. I had nothing at the time. I had my car! J: Well, now like your first kiss, was it like a TV kiss? Like was it on TV? Or was it a real kiss? B: Uh... my first kiss was a real kiss, uh...a girl...we had a mutual friend give us instructions on how to do it. There was three stages... J: Wow, you really were a dork! B: Well yeah! J: I can see why you got beat up. Its not understanding. B: Well yeah, I was a very richie kinda man...guy. J: Well I hear you brought in ages? B: We brought in outside help because we obviously needed it! It was early therapy... I don't know! She gave us... there were three steps. One which was a real quick peck and then two which was a little slower, and three was red shoe diary, you know, kinda getting in there! And...uh... we got a diploma at the end. We each got a diploma for it. So... so thats good! J: (Points to previous girl on the show) Her sister was mooning out the window with.... What about your first screen kiss? B: My first screen kiss was with my best friend, oddly enough! We were casting the same movie! J: A guy? B: Yeah... um... Ryan Phillipe. J: Really? B: Yeah, Ryan and I was... we were doing a movie called 54 and my first uh.... J: For real? B: Yeah! My first on screen kiss was with my best friend Ryan. He said "Yep." J: You know this beat up thing is really starting to make sense now! B: Well, I mean I didn't choose it, but he's a real gentle kisser! I'm sorry! We are! So...yeah. J: You realize on the set the girl you had to bring in to help you! B: But with a guy... J: But you kiss a guy and its like "Boom boom you're out there! Boom boom you're in there!" B: It was instincual. J: Wow. This is alot more revealing! B: Yeah, my finace`'s gonna kill me! J: You mean your ex-finace`! B: Yeah my ex-finace`! J: I think I just heard her leaving in tears! B: Yeah, exactly! J: Now tell us about Rat Race. You know, I read something today that told me how funny the movie was, but I haven't heard anything about it until you just got here. B: Its great. Its in the vien of "Mad Mad Mad Mad World," the cannibol run kinda thing. J: Right, right. B: But its got the greatest cast. Whoopi Goldburg, Cuba Gooding, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Kath Najimy, Jon Lovitz, me! And, yeah, its just unbelievable! John Cleese gives these people an opportunity to win $2,000,000. Whoever can get to the $2,000,000 the quickest from Vegas to New Mexico, you get it, no strings attatched. You get it tax-free. And its just about being underhanded and conniving and getting there. J: What is this scene we're gonna see? B: This clip is I find a girl played by Amy Smart, who's in Road Trip with me, a pretty blonde who I've gotten to kiss. Which is, so...I've gone to... J: She's no Ryan Phillipe. B: No but she's taking me to uh, I think I found a loophole here and she's gonna take me to go find the money and I have to lie to her because I don't want her to know what I'm doing. So I'm lieing to her. J: Lets take a look here. (They show a clip from Rat Race) J: Rat Race! Opens up the 17th! Breckin, we'll see you again soon. Breckin Meyer! We'll be right back with Nelly Fertado! This interview was taken at the premiere of Kate & Leopold (2001): Did you like playing Meg Ryan's little brother? I dug it. I mean- I really liked it. How was this different from your other roles? The one thing I learned to do in this movie was act classy. I read the script and said it was really classy. You know- I've done the teen comedy. the big wacky stuff, broad comedy, but I really liked the idea that this was a classy romantic comedy. When they put the cast together, with Brad Whitford, Liev Schreiber, Natassha Lyonne, -besides Hugh and Meg- it was a classy cast with really good actors. They gave me my character, this great arc with Hugh kind of teaching him how to speak to women from teh heart, instead of laying lines on them he read in "Maxim" magazine. It was just a really fun character and I thought it would be a chance to have some really memorable scenes. |
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