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She's Got Angel Eyes... Monet Mazur has done her fair share of grunt work. She was a nameless character designated as "Flirting Woman" in Addams Family Values and was equally dispensable as "Mod Girl" in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ("I had one line," laughs the actress: "'Oh, my God, it's Austin Powers!'"). But all that is about to change. After wrapping a small role as one of Johnny Depp's stoner buddies in Blow, the 24-year-old Malibu native quickly won three meaty parts. In Angel Eyes, she plays the abused sister-in-law of Jennifer Lopez, about whom Mazur says, "The girl works her ass off--and she's stunningly beautiful. She'd come to work in the morning with no makeup on in sweatpants and still be totally hot. I can't even look at myself in the mirror at 6 a.m." Later this summer, in Michael Lehmann's romantic comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights, Mazur will play an oversexed Internet startup employee who tries to tempt Josh Hartnett into breaking his vow of celibacy. She's currently shooting the indie drama Stark Raving Mad, which stars Seann William Scott and takes place over one night at a bank heist disguised as a rave. It's a good thing this year has been kind to her, because it didn't start out that way: "I was this close to The Matrix 2 and 3," she says. "I usually don't get that upset, but I didn't leave my house for about a week after that."--Kevin Maynard |
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But unlike many headline-grabbing actresses, Jolie is even more interesting on-screen than off. The dangerously screwed-up beauties she has played in George Wallace, Gia, Playing by Heart, Pushing Tin and Girl, Interrupted have all been tangible, believable creations. In her first big-budget thriller, The Bone Collector, she easily matched the skill and intensity of Denzel Washington. She's likely to stun audiences as the take-no-prisoners action heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, a fantasy adventure adapted from the video game by director Simon West (see story on p. 54). And who isn't looking forward to watching her later this summer when she plays the sex-obsessed femme fatale who enraptures Antonio Banderas in Original Sin? When Angelina Jolie greets me for this interview, she strikes me as someone fully capable of doing all that she has done offscreen and all that she's expected to do on-screen as Lara Croft. She's dressed in a black T-shirt and black leather jacket, and she looks like she might throw a mean right if provoked. "Call me Angie," she says, reaching out to shake my hand. I can tell she is indeed something like her father--intense, focused. And I have little doubt that, like her father, she'll be original in her thinking. For Lawrence Grobel's interview pick up the June issus of Movieline. PAGE 1 | 2 |