UNRELEASED VIDEO

SONG: Sad Eyes
ALBUM: Enrique
DIRECTOR: David LaChappelle
YEAR: 2000 (filmed August 12 & 13)
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Enrique Iglesias teams with a porn star for his new video. EW.com tells you what this means for the heartthrob's image

'EYES' ON THE PRIZE Iglesias frolics with X rated movie vixen Cassidey

by Craig Seymour

Enrique Iglesias, who once joked to a journalist that he was a virgin, takes a badass Kid Rock-like turn in his next video Sad Eyes, which features the Latin pop hunk frolicking with 19 year old adult video star Cassidey. The clip, which will hit MTV and VH1 by the end of the month, follows Enrique's obsession with the self described ''porn chick,'' whose doleful mug he spots in magazines, on TV, and on his computer screen. His softcore stalking comes to an, um, climax when boy finally meets up with girl and they get nekkid in a see through bathtub. ''It's a total makeout scene,'' Cassidey tells EW.com. ''We look like we're really gettin' it on.''

CassideySome industry observers think this steamy on camera fandango will give Enrique's clean cut image a fresh edge, especially since he's one of the first pop acts to go the ''porn star cameo'' route. ''It'll help him appeal to a demo that he hasn't traditionally gotten before,'' says Simon Glickman, senior editor at the music trade Hits. Teenage guys who've dismissed the 25 year old son of Julio as ''that pretty boy who all the chicks like'' may now start thinking ''he's the man.''

The clip, which is directed by zany fashion photographer David LaChappelle, will also increase Cassidey's profile beyond the beaded off backroom of your neighborhood video hut. And while she doesn't have plans to appear in any more music videos, she has very fond memories of the three day shoot, caressing Enrique's ''buff, shiny chest'' and listening to him joke ''maybe we should do this for real.''

During the taping, Cassidey even learned to like the tune -- a cover of a Bruce Springsteen ballad -- though she's admittedly more of head-banging Slipknot fan. ''Sad Eyes is one of those really catchy songs,'' she explains. ''It was totally stuck in my head for the whole time I was working on the video. And now I even walk around the house naked singing the song.'' Hmm... sounds like a scene for the uncensored director's cut.

Source: EW.com, 12 September 2000, 6:00 a.m.


ENRIQUE GETS HOT

Enrique Iglesias knows how to spice up a music video: Hire some X-rated talent. For his new single, Sad Eyes, due out in a few weeks, the Latin crooner reached out to Vivid Video vixen Cassidey, the star of such porn classics as Diary of Desire and Girl's Night Out. In the video, shot by photographer David LaChapelle, Iglesias becomes obsessed with Cassidey's blue eyes, eventually seducing her. The clip climaxes with steamy scenes in a clear glass bathtub. "This video is phenomenal -- it is so hot," Cassidey told US Weekly. "My mouth waters every time I think about it!"

Source: US Weekly, 18 September 2000


SAD EYES Video Shelved

Enrique Too Hot For Prime Time

Fans of Enrique Iglesias may never see the video for his hit Sad Eyes. Scenes of the singer frolicking in the nude with 19-year-old porn star Cassidey apparently are too flagrante for TV.

Famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle directed the video, in which Iglesias and Cassidey are said to be seen splashing in a glass bathtub nearly bringing the water to a boil.

Enrique Iglesias' new video may be too hot for TV. Cassidey refuses to say whether their video lovemaking was simulated, but tells us: "Even while we were making it, I was wondering, 'Is this ever going to get on MTV?'"

Reps at MTV and VH1 insist the Sad Eyes video was never submitted to their programmers. Thus, one would have to assume that execs at Iglesias' Interscope Records scuttled the video. Messages left at Interscope were not returned.

But Cassidey and a spokeswoman for LaChapelle say the video has been shelved.

LaChapelle is known for his comic kinkiness. But, even by his standards, his rep says, the Sad Eyes video "was really unbelievable & really sexy.

Enrique called David because he wanted something edgy. It's bizarre that someone decided to kill it."

Source: NY Daily News, 22 October 2000


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