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Moviephone
Host: Hello, and welcome to AOL
Moviefone Live. I am Mr. Moviefone. I am your host today. Today, we're
here with the hot young stars Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb.
Can you guys hear me?
"The Skulls" Cast: Absolutely.
Host: How you doing today?
"The Skulls" Cast: Good. Weird not being able to see you.
Now that I get the Moviefone reference, I'm used to your voice.
Joshua Jackson: Great. I can see how this is going to go. The new
movie is the story of three kids who get cast away on a tropical island
and....
Host: I don't believe that's true.
Joshua Jackson: That is absolutely incorrect. It's a story of a kid,
Luke McNamara, and his friends who are in Yale University, and they all
get wrapped up by this organization called the Skull and Bones. And you
know, when you get in, they promise the world to you. And it seems like
the best thing that ever happened to you. Then they go around killing your
friends, murdering your people. All of a sudden, you got an issue there,
and you got to find a way back out.
Joshua Jackson: In all seriousness, Luke's the kind of guy who's
been pulling himself up by his bootstraps his whole life. He finds himself
in his final year at Yale, getting his undergraduate, on his way to
becoming a lawyer. And he gets on the threshold of being able to achieve
the goals he wants to achieve, which is Harvard law, then on to being a
lawyer, and a successful... member of society. And gets right to that
doorstep, right up to the precipice, and I think he kind of [pulls] up at
the gate. He doesn't think he has what it takes to go the final mile.
Joshua Jackson: At that point, the Skulls organization comes in and
promises to take care of him, to give him everything that he ever wanted,
to take care of his tuition, to take care of his clothes, to take care of
-- I mean, his car, his this and that. Everything gets taken care of. All
he has to give them is his soul and individuality.
Host: Sounds like a fair trade.
Joshua Jackson: That's what I said. I didn't get the problem in it.
Host: Leslie, tell us about your character.
Leslie Bibb: About Chloe? She's awesome. She's quite strong. She
really, Luke and Chloe and Will, played by someone who's not here, the
three of them are the best of friends. It should be the greatest year of
their lives, this last year at Yale. All of a sudden, it goes all wrong
when people start lying and there are secrets. She's really great, because
she goes from impotence to strength as a character and she finds...
Joshua Jackson: I go for that.
Leslie Bibb: Do you?
Host: It sounds very good. Paul Walker, tell us a little about your
character.
Paul Walker: Well, I play the complete opposite of Joshua's
character in that I come from -- my character comes from -- a lot of
money, very strong, prominent home, fifth-generation Skull. My father,
actually, played by the Coach, if anybody knows the Coach....
Leslie Bibb: Craig T. Nelson.
Paul Walker: In the film, he's the chairman of the Skulls. I think
Caleb -- I don't know, I think he's the kind of guy, every guy, some one
time or another, has dreamt of being like. You know, he was born with
everything.
Leslie Bibb: You do. I think the great thing about the movie,
everybody in it was giving 110 percent. I mean, Rob Cohen was amazing to
all of us. He's a great director, but he says to each of us, "Let's
play, let's have a good time. Just know that you can take risks and
chances and try things, and know that I'm there to catch you."
Paul Walker: I don't know, he's like a real team player. I don't
know, it's just comforting. It's like going in initially, you feel like
you're all alone and you're responsible for your character and to bring
what you're supposed to bring to the table. With Rob, you never feel
like... you don't feel alone.
Leslie Bibb: I think as a cast, we really... really, everyone bonded
and had a great time, and everyone was really supportive of each other.
You knew that you had that freedom,and you knew that these guys were
always going to have your back.
Host: It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun.
Leslie Bibb: We had a great time.
Host: Here we go with another question. Brandonbiz: Is this a
teen slasher or more of a psychological thriller? Is this a horror movie?
Joshua Jackson: The title is misleading in that way. I didn't think
the title would hold. It's titled "The Skulls" solely because
the name of the organization, the secret society the film is about, is the
Skulls.
Paul Walker: It is not a slasher film.
Leslie Bibb: You're on the edge of your seat. It's definitely a
thriller.
Host: Let's go back to Tahoe 9626: What was the best part of
making the movie? It sounds like you had a lot of fun. How long were you
on the set? Was it arduous at all?
Joshua Jackson: That's part of the fun of the job. The reason you go
to work is to do just that, to work. So sometimes it is arduous, and
sometimes it's tough. At times, you know, you're not getting where you
want to be, and sometimes you are. And sometimes you're tired, and you
don't want to do it, and sometimes you're too hyper to concentrate. All of
that is the film experience. That is at the end of the day, not to speak
for you guys, but that is at the end of the day what we take away from the
experience. That's the fun. So the harder... the more I work, the more fun
I'm having.
Host: Great.
Paul Walker: It's good also because everyone looks at it, they think
it's so glamorous and great, which it is in a lot of ways. But at the same
time, it's a lot of hard work. It's nice going home thinking, "I put
in a 20-hour day." You feel like a hard day's work, you earned your
keep.
Leslie Bibb: We're all really proud of this movie, which is really
exciting, to walk out of seeing a screening. For me it's my first one, and
so to walk out and everybody, you were saying, you were saying how you
were happy, you were so happy with it. It's really great. It's a really,
really good movie, and it's a great ride. So fasten your seat belts.
Host: Southy girl says: Were any of you aware of the actual
Skulls before making the film? Did you know this movie could be real to
life? Have you ever been a part of anything like this?
Paul Walker: Not until we got involved in the movie itself. I wasn't
aware that the secret societies existed until after I got the part.
Host: Do they actually exist?
Paul Walker: The Skull and Bone society of Yale University, which
has its....
Leslie Bibb: We're all going to be killed right after this
interview.
Paul Walker: If we all develop a very strange cancer, you know why.
Leslie Bibb: I started at the University of Virginia, and I grew up
near Charlottesville. Yea! And they have secret societies there. You'll go
through the campus and there will be Z's on stuff. I always question, what
does that mean? They're like, it's a secret society. But that's it. You're
like, what else? Everyone's like, I don't know.
Joshua Jackson: When I was here last weekend, on Monday night I'm
out at this joint, and two different people came up to me, like, Hey, I'm
a member. Of which society? I can't tell you. But we know your movie.
Leslie Bibb: That's so creepy!
Paul Walker: In Yale, this girl comes up to me like we're all going
to wear our cowls to go to the opening night. It's cool, but a little
scary.
Host: Another question. Hard b says: Who of the three of you
has been to college, and can you tell us your SAT score?
Leslie Bibb: I started. My SATs were 1200.
Host: 1200? That's pretty good, I think.
Joshua Jackson: I'm Canadian. We don't take SATs.
Host: This is a very important question. Carolee Martin says:
Josh, I'm Brazilian, but I love your films and all your work. I need
know you. Please say me how. That's the question. Give us an answer.
Joshua Jackson: You me know now.
Host: It's a crazy cult language. It's one of those subculture
languages. Let's take another question. Southy girl says: Leslie,
just wondering what it was like working with so many guys at once. Did
things ever get crazy between one of the cast members? And was it
enjoyable? This might be a personal, prying question. One of those we were
talking about.
Leslie Bibb: It was delicious. It was awesome. You got nice, pretty
boys all around you.
Host: Calm down, you crazy kids. Southy girl -- let's continue this
theme: Leslie, did you really accidentally bite Josh during one of
your love scenes? That's what we hear.
Leslie Bibb: I did. It was really nerve-wracking because it was my
first love scene, and I...
Joshua Jackson: So I accidentally bit his lip. Lord knows, when you
get nervous, the champing reflex of your jaw acts up, and I just can't
help it.
Host: Guys, tell us...
Joshua Jackson: Boy, I'm really nervous.
Leslie Bibb: I didn't do that! I didn't do that. It was not like
that. That is not the way it happened. It started...
Joshua Jackson: [mumbling]
Leslie Bibb: When you see the movie, it's like when you're kissing
and things are flying and things are going.
Joshua Jackson: Yeah, like my lower lip.
Leslie Bibb: I didn't mean to. If it was a nice person, they
wouldn't complain about it like Josh.
Joshua Jackson: This is the woman who paraded me up one side and
down the other for trying to be a gentleman and take the Fifth about how
is the kissing question. I don't want to kiss and tell. You can't do that!
I told about you! You got to tell with me! You got to tell them I'm a good
kisser, man.
Host: All right. Moving right along. Now, here's a question we've
had about 5,000 of so far, but we'll go ahead and ask it -- are any of you
dating at this time? There are a lot of people that would like to get to
know you better.
Host: Aaron says: Leslie, Josh, Paul, do you have any bad
habits? If so, what are they? Thanks. Love you.
Leslie Bibb: Gosh, bad habits? I have a dirty mouth. I swear a lot.
That's it. I do say a lot of bad words. I have a bit of a potty mouth.
Joshua Jackson: But she goes like this, which makes it OK.
Leslie Bibb: What's your thing?
Paul Walker: I swear a lot. It bothers me sometimes. But it's fun.
Leslie Bibb: It's fun to swear.
Host: Swearing is fun?
Leslie Bibb: You can do it at home. It's the newest thing for a
3-year-old, for you to swear in four different languages.
Joshua Jackson: It all depends on the company.
Host: Now, you guys have done a bunch of TV. You know, everybody
knows about "Dawson's Creek," etc. What was the difference...
Paul Walker: Very popular.
Host: Exactly. What was difference between the movies and TV? Do you
like one better than the other?
Paul Walker: There's a lot of differences. Starting with you take
seven days to film an hour's worth of television. You take 53 days in the
case of "The Skulls," I think, to film two hours' worth of film,
worth of movie. And with the film, you have, character-wise, you know
exactly the story you're going to tell, from day one to the last day you
do it, barring rewrites and studio shenanigans. But generally, you know
what you're telling.
Paul Walker: On the TV show, the fun is not exploring a story you're
already aware of, but exploring the differences between the stories from
week to week and growing with the character. The character in the film is
a finite thing, it's closed at each end. You know exactly where it's going
to start and end. On the TV show, it stretches off into the distance and
can potentially go for years, as you will find next year. You learn to
enjoy the different mutations of the character as you're traveling the
past.
Host: What do we have to look forward to?
Leslie Bibb: It's a ride. I almost said a bad word. I think the
great thing about the story -- the great thing about this movie is that
it's smart, and that it's geared -- we're going to have a younger
audience, and I think that a college audience, that demographic is the one
we're going for. But it's definitely one where you find yourself cheering
for the people. And it's fun.
Joshua Jackson: It's first and foremost entertainment. That's what
we do for a living. We're entertainers. Hopefully that will grab the
audience. It sucks you right in at the beginning, [eases] you out, makes
you comfortable, then it drops a bomb on you, then it [eases] you out a
bit.
Paul Walker: Then you walk out saying, "Damn, that was the best
$8.50 I ever spent." That's what we hope.
Host: Next question -- where was "The Skulls" filmed?
Leslie Bibb: Toronto.
Host: This is from Aaron: This is for Paul, Leslie and Josh.
How old are you guys? When are your birthdays? I know Josh's, actually.
Oh, well, I love you guys. When are your birthdays?
Leslie Bibb: Mine is November 17.
Paul Walker: Mine's September 12.
Joshua Jackson: June 11. I'm a Gemini.
Host: We're not attaching a year to that.
Leslie Bibb: No. It's none of your beeswax.
Host: B-50 asks: Do any of you have AOL? And if so, are you
online a lot? And what do you think about all of this Internet stuff?
Paul Walker: It's the future, man. It's coming soon to a home near
you.
Paul Walker: Is anybody there?
Joshua Jackson: It's the most user-friendly of all the online
services.
Paul Walker: Good save. We're back on track now.
Joshua Jackson: You know what they're going to do? They got a little
censor bar.
Host: It says in the beginning of August, I know you actually saved
two girls at Wrightsville Beach. What was going through your mind as you
were out in the ocean with them?
Joshua Jackson: I must be an idiot!
Host: Is this true?
Joshua Jackson: I acted as a flotation device. It's not as dramatic
as it's been made out to [be]. This girl was having an asthma attack in
the water. So me and my buddy Mike swam out there, which is, of course,
the first thing they tell you not to do. But we swam out there and held
them up until the Coast Guard got there. They gave her asthma medicine,
and off we went.
Leslie Bibb: Then I heard a rumor you almost drowned.
Joshua Jackson: By the time I got back to work the next day, it was
not that I almost drowned, but it became I got drunk, I got in a fight
with a guy, I tried to kill him, then I tried to commit suicide. It was
intense. I just went for a swim, held the girl up, put her in the thing,
the Zodiac, got on the dock. It will be the last time that ever happens. I
must have had sunstroke or something.
Host: I think we're all very proud of you. James Dean wants to know:
Does Leslie get naked this movie?
Joshua Jackson: Rocking, man.
Leslie Bibb: James Dean? Good Lord.
Joshua Jackson: James Dean wants to see you naked.
Leslie Bibb: He'd be highly disappointed if he saw me naked. I don't
technically get naked, no.
Host: How about untechnically?
Leslie Bibb: Clothes start to come off, then you fade off.
Joshua Jackson: Then she tears off my lower lip and we sort of lose
steam.
Leslie Bibb: There we go again.
Host: We'll move right along. Southy girl asks: Were there any
pranks on the set that you can tell us about?
Paul Walker: There's some basic ones, but you can't tell them,
because if you do, on the next set you're a marked man. I can make Josh's
guitar disappear real quick. Where's my guitar?
Joshua Jackson: Someone broke into my trailer!
Paul Walker: I got to the guitar and helped myself to it when he was
working one time. His sister was there, but I didn't ask her. There were
practical jokes.
Joshua Jackson: There were some, but we don't want them to see our
true colors. You can't give away the trade secrets, or the next time
around, you're the marked man.
Host: That's right. Rachel from ihj: This is for Josh. Can't
wait to see you on "SNL." are you thrilled about doing other
things beside "D.C."?
Joshua Jackson: Yeah, it's good. The more stuff you get to do, the
more fun you're going to have. I mean, every time you hope to do something
a little different, and every time you go out there and enjoy yourself.
Each experience -- I mean, half of the fun for myself, half of the fun is
definitely making a good movie. At the end of the day, that's what we're
there to do. The performance is penultimate, but the experience of making
the movie is what you remember years down the line. So being given the
opportunity to do things outside "Dawson's Creek" is an
unbelievable blessing.
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