P.C.
Confidential
By Tom Stacy (SOD
‘97)
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Old Hollywood met new Hollywood when Digest sat down with three of Port Charles’s leading ladies at L.A.’s famous Formosa Café. The establishment, one of Hollywood’s oldest landmarks, was prominently featured in L.A. Confidential, as Oscar nominee for Best Picture. So over a few cocktails and lots of appetizers, here’s what the women had to say--
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Digest: Eve had an affair with Julie's father, Bennett. Now she’s dating Karen's father, Scott. What's up with that? Jennifer Hammon (Karen): Slut. Lisa Ann Hadley (Julie): Tramp, tramp, tramp. Julie Pinson (Eve): I love it! Love, love, love it! Hadley: What man doesn't she have a connection with? That's my question. Pinson (laughs): Joe Scanlon? |
Hadley: What about Frank?
Pinson: Frank? Hmmm. That kiss I gave him at that party was really good. I might have to get me a little more of that. Digest: So far, Julie’s kissed Frank. Karen’s kissed Joe. Eve has kissed--let’s see--Scott, Kevin, Frank, Chris, Bennett…
Hammon: Slut.
Hadley: Tramp, tramp, tramp. It hasn’t been seen on-camera, but she’s kissed the janitor too.
Pinson: Nobody’s supposed to know about that! Digest: Despite all the trials and tribulations, are these three women friends now?
Hammon: Eve and Karen are getting to be friends.
Pinson: Eve and Karen are trying to get to an understanding, and we’ve been together on a few things. Eve and Julie are still…
Hadley: We have our moments.
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Pinson: Exactly. I don’t think we’re ready to say,
"I love you." "I love you, too." Who wants to see that
anyway? I think there needs to be more friction between the
three of us. On the show , that is.
Hadley: Just sleep with a few more people and I’m sure you can create it. Pinson: You need to sleep with some people, too. Hammon: I want to sleep with some people, too. Digest: We all need to sleep with some people. Pinson: Hey, let's trash the boys. |
Digest: Okay. Let's start with Nolan North (Chris). Is he pretty much a crack-up on the set?
Pinson: Yes. Nonstop.
Hadley: Uh-huh.
Hammon: He’s hilarious. I love Nolan.
Pinson: He does impressions of everybody. He does impressions of all our characters too.
Hammon: I didn’t know he had a Karen imitation.
Pinson: He does.
Hadley: It'’ll crack you up!
Hammon: Oh, really? Hmm.
Digest: Rib Hillis (Jake): Cover boy material?
Hammon: A sweetheart.
Pinson: A doll.
Digest: Not hung up on himself?
All: No, no, no.
Hammon: Very focused, always wanting to do a great job.
Hadley: Very giving--as a person and as an actor.
Pinson: Yup. He really wants the scenes to work. He’ll bend over backward for you, even personally. When I moved a few weeks ago, he was like, "Anything you need? You need my truck? I’ll take you down to Mexico. We’ll go get furniture. Anything you want." He is just so right there for you in every way.
Digest: Michael Dietz (Joe)?
Hadley: Love, love, love Michael Dietz. He’s got this little puppy dog….
Hammon: Branson, his rottweiler puppy, that he brings to work with him because she gets lonely. It that not the sweetest thing?
Pinson: She’s so adorable.
Hadley: Branson goes galloping up and down the hallway into everybody’s dressing rooms.
Pinson: She makes the rounds.
Hadley: If you find shoes in the middle of the hall, you know Brandon’s been there.
Digest: Jay Pickett (Frank)?
Pinson: Oh, Jay.
Hammon: Love Jay.
Hadley: I’m totally biased. My character adores him and so do I.
Hammon: He’s the greatest guy.
Pinson: Jay is like the Rock of Gibraltar. He’s the rock of this show.
Hammon: He’s like an older brother, very mature.
Pinson: He’d be the perfect guy if he wasn’t married. I’d be like woo-hoo!
Hammon: You’d be Julie Pinson Pickett.
(They all laugh)
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Digest: Obviously, you’ve all bonded. But it must have been very intimidating at first - coming onto a new show, not knowing anyone. When did you start to feel comfortable with each other? Hadley: We really bonded while taping the two hour prime-time special. We were all in really high heels and a lot of pain. Pinson: Uh-huh. The movie took two weeks to film, so we were in the same outfit for two weeks, every single day. Hammon: Same high heels. And crouching down most of the time. Hadley: In really attractive poses, trying not to let the camera get too great of a glimpse. |
Hammon: You know, Sharon Stone action? (They all laugh) Digest: Tell us a little bit about life on the set. Is there a particular dressing room where you like to hang out and dish?
Pinson: There’s a few, Lisa has candy in her dressing room.
Hammon: A ton.
Hadley: I’ve got the refrigerator. It’s always stocked.
Hammon: With Costco stockage. And drinks.
Hadley: I want to be a good hostess. Digest: Martinis?
Hammon: No, drinks like Snapple.
Hadley: You’re trying to get me in trouble, aren’t you? Digest: Do you ever find time to hang out off set?
Pinson: I wish we hung out more often.
Hadley: We do go out sometimes after work, but I wish we had more time.
Pinson: Exactly, I’m the only single one of the bunch, so I’m the one with all the time. These two have other stuff going on, which is completely understandable. But I’d hang out with these two in a heartbeat. We’d rip this town apart. Right, girls?
Hammon/Hadley: Yeah!
Digest: Some women say that it’s easier to be friends with men then with other women. Comments?
Pinson: Not the friends I know and hang out with. I pick my girlfriends strictly for their independence, their strength and their intelligence. None of the women I know would ever be catty or jealous. Ever. I do not choose to hang out with women like that.
Hammon: You go, girl!
Hadley: I’ve had great male friends and female friends. I think it really depends on the person.
Hammon: My best friends in life have been women. I think it’s harder to get in with women, but once I’m in, I’m in.
Digest: Do you think you’d ever be friends with someone like your character? Lisa, would you be friends with someone like Julie?
Hadley: I would. Definitely. I think she’s a good egg.
Hammon: She’s awesome.
Hadley: And she’d stick by people she supports.
Digest: Jennifer, what about you and Karen?
Hammon: Yeah, I’d be friends with her. But I don’t think we’d quite click.
Pinson: You wouldn’t call her crying on the phone on a Friday night because something bad happened to you that day.
Hammon: Right, right. I don’t know why.
Digest: Julie, what about you and Eve?
Pinson: Nope. Would not be friends with her, which is funny because we are so similar.
Hammon: I think that’s the same thing with me. Digest: Maybe you’re too similar?
Hammon/Pinson: Yes.
Pinson:This is so weird, I think I’m having a therapy session right now.
Hammon: I think my character’s a little too somber. I’m more fun.
Digest: Well, your characters are doctors in training.
Pinson: I’m a doctor? I forgot. They never show Eve doing any doctor stuff.
Hammon: Yeah, and you’re the one with all the good recommendations for the Quartermaine Fellowship.
Hadley: She doesn’t even have a patient!
Pinson: Gotta get me one of those, too.
Fortune
Cookies
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What gourmet Chinese dinner would be complete without a fortune cookie for dessert? Here’s the OT on which actress got what - even a photographer Greg Weiner got into the act. Hadley: "Accept the effections offered to you. They are sincere." Aww. Hammon: "Unveil your ideas. Be ready to act on them." Okay. Pinson: "Your life will be happy and peaceful." That’s good! |
Weiner: "You have great physical prowess and an iron constitution."
Hadley: No way.
Pinson: You are so full of s***, let me see that.
Hammon: Did you make that up?
Digest: He obviously must've taken mine by mistake, Waiter!