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Jessica Capshaw
Talk Magazine
February, 2001
For Jessica Capshaw, stardom may be just a Valentine
away.
By Daisy Garnett
Jessica Capshaw is not famous yet, but after doing just one television series (1999's Odd Man Out), and a couple of feature films, she is subject to a disproportionate amount of curiousity. She is, after all, the 24-year old, Brown-educated, actress daughter of Kate Capshaw and, therefore, the stepdaughter of Steven Spielberg. (Her own dad, Robert Capshaw, is a marketing executive in New York City.)
In Valentine, an ensemble slasher/dating movie due out in February, Capshaw plays Dorothy, who was chubby and troubled in the 6th grade and still feels something of an outsider 10 years later. "That resonated with me," Capshaw says, gently, "because I was a chubby little kid myself. It meant I had to cultivate other sensibilities - intelligence and humor - instead."
Inevitably, Capshaw, whose mother met Spielberg making Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and married him eight years later, when Jessica was 15, inspires envy in her acting peers, who assume she must have the inside track in Hollywood. But Capshaw - and her mother and Spielberg - firmly resist this notion. "It is something we talk about a lot," says Capshaw. "Part of what made my mother so hungry and ambitious was that she didn't have a safety net.... That's why I didn't go to them for an agent. I didn't go to them for a manager. And I certainly never said, 'Can you get me a job?'"
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