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Ali here. Yes, really. :) First, I wanted to thank you SO MUCH for your support over the years.
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I also wanted to let you know…drum roll…I’m on Twitter! I just launched my account and wanted to let you know.
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Stay tuned: starting an official Facebook page in the next couple weeks too (will let you know when that’s live).
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- Ali (06/05/2011)
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Ali Larter interview (January, 2003) |
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Ali Larter Interview by Kevin Polowy January 29, 2003 It's easy to find irony in the fact that Ali Larter has essentially become the poster girl for the Final Destination franchise, a pair of supernatural thrillers that find its ill-fated subjects heeding that death is near and unavoidable. Though Larter can't claim top billing in either, her assumption of the responsibility is further proof that this actress is destined for stardom - if that was what she wanted. At a midtown Manhattan hotel to promote Final Destination 2, Larter refers to the unabashed journalist she'd just spoken with whom asked her how she felt "about not being that big of a name." Laughing it off, the sultry model-turned-actress says "For me that's a blessing. I usually try to do about three magazines per movie to make a studio feel like I did enough. I haven't had my role yet, I don't think, or the chance to show what I can do. So I'm comfortable being a little bit more under the radar." Of course "being that big of a name" is purely subjective. The Cherry Hill, New Jersey native may not be a household name quite yet, but ask around and see how many guys remember who redefined desert with a whipped-cream bikini in Varsity Blues or who graced the cover of Maxim in April, 2001. See how many girls remember who brought a hilarious ambiguity to a possibly homicidal sorority sister in Legally Blonde and pulled off one of the magazine industry's most ingenious schemes when she appeared on the cover of Esquire in November, 1996. It certainly wasn't Larter's name that garnered her the appreciation of producers Craig Perry and Warren Zide when they decided to make the actress the lone character to return for the second installment of Final Destination. In 2000, she starred alongside Devon Sawa, Kerr Smith and Sean William Scott as part of a group of high schoolers who jump ship minutes before their plane takes off and subsequently crashes, only to thereafter realize death is out to get each one of them. The film grossed a surprisingly healthy $53 million at the box office, and with its "sleeper" tag came the inevitable sequel. And though both Sawa's protagonist Alex Browning and Larter's morose goth girlfriend Clear Rivers were both standing at the end of the film, the actress won the role as the lone survivor of Flight 180. Larter, needless to say, was flattered. "I don't think any of us expected it to be such a huge success," she admits. The producers, along with director David R. Ellis, approached Larter early in pre-production and asked her to partner with them in bringing the project to life. "As an actress, she was invaluable," Perry says. "As a partner in the process, she was invaluable, because she's the only connection really to the first movie. We needed to have her ground the entire thing and she really did help us." In Final Destination 2, a group of strangers are united in a race against death after their supposed fate is delayed when Kimberly (A.J. Cook), a motorist blocking traffic, envisions a deadly car crash that would've taken all of their lives. As Kimberly, the responding sheriff (Michael Landes) and seven other slowly realize what's in store for them, they solicit the help of Clear Rivers, who's committed herself into an institution in fear of a gruesome death. "When we see her, she's not exactly in good shape," Perry explains. "She's beyond paranoid and has committed herself into an asylum not for her mental health but for her own protection. So it was such an interesting launch pad for her as an actress to sort of reintegrate herself back into society. That was really the purpose of this whole movie is that there's a bunch of people who need her to help them, and she has to put herself at risk and go do that." And in a case of life imitating art, Clear aids those who avoided the crash and want to live much like Larter, as Ellis says, "set the standard for how all the other (less experienced) actors would kind of react on the set. By being the first one on the set, prepared in makeup, never (keeping us) waiting for her, and because of that the younger actors or lesser known actors kind of stepped up to the plate." Though Larter, at 26, can't be much older than her FD 2 contemporaries, it would be hard to imagine anyone close to her in age with as much experience or expertise in front of the camera. She began a career on the runway with the prominent Ford Modeling Agency at the tender age of 13, a lifestyle that would make her as well-traveled as an ambassador over the next five or six years. She caught the acting bug when she was 19 and packed her bags for L.A. where she'd soon find modest roles in television series such as Chicago Hope, Just Shoot Me and Dawson's Creek. But despite an already successful stint in the modeling world, Larter didn't catch the collective eye of Hollywood until she was chosen as the "It girl" by Esquire Magazine. The thing was, Larter wasn't anything of the sort. The editors of the monthly glossy were merely attempting to pull one over in a classic parody of fluff journalism. Larter, given the alias Allegra Coleman, was plastered on the zine's cover and lauded as "Hollywood's next dream girl." "That came about because I was modeling and that was just a job," she says modestly. "The photographer had known me from when I was a younger teen and knew that I (could be) the It Girl. And they wanted someone who could deal with the press, that came along with that. So I did it." Shortly thereafter the feature was revealed as a hoax, but the floods of calls coming into to represent Larter didn't cease. "I think everyone has their one thing that opens the door," she explains. "And that opened the door and I got the agent and I got the manager and I wasn't turning back." Larter's film debut came in 1999 in the teen football hit Varsity Blues. Starring opposite Dawson himself, James Van Der Beek, Larter played a Texan cheerleader to perfection and made a name - or at least an image - for herself by donning only a few slabs of whipped cream. When a stab at independent cinema in the comedy Cassanova Falling went virtually unnoticed, Larter steered back toward teen-oriented entertainment, appearing opposite Melissa Joan Hart in Drive Me Crazy, screaming up a storm in the Vincent Price remake House on Haunted Hill, and of course, as Clear in Final Destination. "I've been so lucky," Larter admits. "I started in this business and it was like a chain reaction. I was getting these movies and just loving the experience, learning on the set, trying to figure out what it meant to me, what acting meant to me." Larter was seen by her largest audience to date in the 2001 hit comedy Legally Blonde alongside Reese Witherspoon as a wacky sorority girl/fitness instructor on trial for murder. That same year, she played dame to Colin Farrell's Jesse James in the little seen western American Outlaws and wowed America's favorite bluntheads as a lesbian jewel thief in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Immediately after wrapping Final Destination 2 in Canada seven months ago, Larter moved to New York, a repositioning that's symbolic of what she wants out of her career: less Hollywood spectacles, more independent fare. After completing eight studio pictures over the span five years, Larter wants to, as she puts it, "get back to basics." "I don't want to be an L.A. actress," she says. "It's not what I aspire to be. I looked at my life and just decided, you know, I have to change something, and that meant physically moving myself to New York City. I literally went from Vancouver to New York City, checked into the W with my dog, got a broker, got an apartment, sent for my things and didn't go back for four months." Larter says she reached an epiphany of sorts that she belonged in New York two summers ago when she was here performing on stage in The Vagina Monologues, an experience she calls "the most incredible experience of my life." "And when I went back to L.A. and then had to leave to go do this movie I just decided I wanted to get back to the basics. I want to do more characters in movies that just push me, and scare me. And with independents there's a reason they're independent. There's holes in them, there are some problems. But you take a leap of faith and I just want to work with people that want to be there." In February, Larter will begin filming her first New York indie, The Tenants, a project based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard Malamud (The Fixer, The Natural). She'll star opposite Isaiah Washington and another male lead still to be determined in a role she likes to A Doll's House's Nora Helmer. "It's great," Larter says. "To be able to start working on those things and take my work to a different level, I'm really looking forward to it. But will Larter return to Hollywood if the right role presents itself? "Absolutely," she fires back. Believe or not, she does have the name. |