Sit down, relax, read, and enjoy our super duper long interview with *NSYNC's very own Lance Bass and Emmanuelle Chriqui, of the hit movie "On The Line!" We chatted with them for about an hour, so I am sure y'all will love this interview! Both Lance and Emmanuelle are really sweet and so down-to-earth! It's no wonder they have tons of fans!
Question: Did you always want to be an actor?
Answer:
Lance: I always wanted to be an actor! I had a passion for acting before I did music. I had a passion for both, but I thought acting would come before music, but it didn't, music just kinda fell in my lap. I lived back in Mississippi where there's no opprotunity to do anything so, I just did theatre, that type of stuff.
Question: So do you have the same problem as Kevin did asking girls out when you were younger?
Answer:
Lance: I don't know?! Not quite where he'd, I'd choke like Kevin does. I'm one of those people who didn't realize that the girl was like interested. I was always "the friend" you know " the oh he's so cute" " he's like my brother" ya know. So, I was always like the brother type figure you know with girls then; eventually you know I'd become friends, and you'd realize there's something there.
Question: So Emmanuelle you've done some t.v. work in Canada and everything, so you had more on camera work time than these guys. Did you give them some tips?
Answer:
Emmanuelle: No, when we were on set, specifically Lance and I, and the director, we just really worked well together. We would rehearse you know before the day would shoot whatever scene and it was just important to us that, you know Lance and I would talk after every scene and just be like, "That felt good" right, or "Lets try it this way." Or just, but always just keeping it real. Just so that it felt real.
Question: Good experience for everyone?
Answer:
Lance: Oh definately!
Question: Fun set?
Answer:
Lance: Very fun set! and I learned a lot and I mean this is the first time I did it, so I learned a lot from everybody.
Question: And you got your own production company?
Answer:
Lance: Right
Question: So do you have anything in the pipe line for you or others?
Answer:
Lance: We do, not for me, I definately don't have anything planned for me, but i just definately just to produce. I have a couple of things we're working on. One's a Holcoust movie. Yeah it's a serious movie, that won't be for another few years. I mean it's gonna take a while to do. Another I think is called "Super Dudes" which is real fun, it's like Pokemon for adults. We're in the middle of selling it as a television show. It's a real thing going on right now in the internet that's like 6,000 super dudes, where you create your own super hero, you know, you put your face and you send it in and they create your own, and you fight eachother like Pokemon. Now we're trying to sell it to Disney or Fox Family, or something like that.
Question: Do you enjoy this side project as mush as you enjoy performing?
Answer:
Lance: I do, I enjoy everything that I try to tackle. Or I wouldn't be doing it. I love entertainment, that is what I was born for. And I will try to attack anything that has anything to do with entertainment.
Question: So what do you like better, acting or performing?
Answer:
Lance: It's different. It's totaly, totally different. When I'm on stage I love it, it's my life, music is more my life than acting is, it's my 1st priority. But um, also when I'm acting, it's amazing. I woke up in the mornings and late nights and I would enjoy going to work.
Question: So you enjoy doing both of them?
Answer:
Lance: Exactly
Chrissy: Just like me
Lance: Ok! There ya go.
Question: What advice do you have for young teens trying to get into the music or acting scene?
Answer:
Lance: I'd just, What I did, I mean it was a dream of mine, and you just believe in it so much that eventually, you took baby steps to where it came true, you know finding the right manager or finding the right opprotunities. Always going on different auditions just trying everything you can just to learn, because you go on these little bitty things and you do these knit-picky things that really make no sense at the time but it really
Chrissy: Pays off
Lance: Developes your character. Yeah, and you learn so much from it that you look two years back, and " you're like wow" I'm glad I did all that stuff.
Chrissy: You think that all those singing lessons aren't gonna help.
Lance: Exactly
Chrissy: and they do
Lance: It's true that true, that's very true.
Question: As far as future roles what kind of characters do you want to play next?
Answer:
Lance: The next one I deffinately don't want it to be a personal character like this, he's a lttle too down for me, I think something I either want to do comedy or action. I think I'm leaning more towards action for the next one.
Lance: I've been taking Tae-bo
Questiion: How did you decide on this film, I imagine that there were a number of other offers? I remember there were announcements of other projects to do with the other 4, the Grease 3 thing, so how did you decide on this one.
Answer:
Lance: This was perfect, we actually decided on this one for our first "Happy Place Project." I wasn't attached to it at all but it was cool because with our first film we wanted a good quality movie for everybody, every age, every race, and this was perfect because it was an "R" rated movie but we wanted to bring it down to a "PG" because "A Happy Place," and we wanted to utilize athletes and musicians in the movie, so when we were going to cast it, figured I had some time off, and I'd play this "Kevin" character, so it was developed. It was given to us, by some friends of us at Tapestry Films, It was a short film called, "On The L," and we loved it so much, so it was just the right thing.
Question: So it was started with just you, and Joey was brought in?
Answer:
Lance: I called Joey. Joe and I have always wanted to do a movie together, for six years we've been writing little screen plays and that type of stuff and eventually we knew if we'd ever had time, we would do something. I called him I was like "you're gonna have the time lets do it." "You're playing this character "Rod," you can't say no, " so
Question: How did the cameo with Chris and Justin come up and where was JC?
Answer:
Lance: JC was actually up in Toronto he was gonna be bartender, but the scene got cut, and we didn't have time to shoot it that day, so he was on the set but we never used him. I'm kinda glad 'cause I didn't want anyone else in this movie 'cause it would confuse people and make it look cheesey. But in credits it was perfect. We wanted to do something so funny. And that us, that's our humor right there, and it totally came out on this.
Question: Did Justin pick that Jose Ieber hat?
Answer:
Lance: He did pick that hat, yea he did. He had a styalist but he definately went for that hat.
Question: If either of you were in that actual situation, would either one of you have said hey what's your number or would you have just stayed away?
Answer:
Lance: I would have gotten the number!
Emmanuelle: Yeah the thing is, that it's tricky because I would if he had asked for the number I would have given it. I wouldn't have persued for the number because I was still in a relationship, so that was like.....
Lance: Oh, so you have morals.lol
Emmanuelle: Morals. So yeah, that would have made it tricky but I was, as far as the character goes, she was hoping that he would ask her. (whisper) and chocked"
Question: If you're personally in a relationship would you give your number?
Answer:
Lance: Just to be friends.
Emmanuelle: Yeah just to be friends, I mean that's the thing, if things were on the rocks and if I met this boy and you we were gonna be friends. yeah i'd give my number. I'd make it clear.
Question: What's the most romantic thing someone's done for you?
Answer:
Lance: No one does anything romantic for me. I mean like cooked dinner or something, I don't know. I'm usually the one being romantic.
All: ahh
Emmanuelle: I did a romantic thing for you
Lance: What?!
Emmanuelle: I mean romantic in the friendship way. With the picture frame that I gave you.
Lance: That was really nice. That's right.
Emmanuelle: That was romantic. you want to know what it was?
All: Yeah
Emmanuelle: It was this silver picture frame and there were a lot of 1st times on this movie. It was Lance's 1st movie, it was a Happy Place 1st film, it was like my first real leading lady and so it made it a really special set. So I got him a silver picture frame, and in it, his assistant Beth took this amazing picture of us, we were both in costume, and there was the Chicago Skyline behind us, and panavision camera right in the corner, and it was a perfect pictue. So I put it in the frame, and then put on the bottom, it was inscribed, Look up ..... XOXO Abbey, so that was romantic from Abbey.
Lance: That is like the only picture up in my house rightnow, right above the fireplace.
Question: What was the most difficult scene to film?
Answer:
Lance: um?
Emmanuelle: Most nerve racking was the President for me.
Lance: Yeah, oh yeah that was pretty bad, where we had to name the presidents, and you had to name way more than me.
Emmanuelle: Yeah
Question: How many times did you shoot that one?
Answer:
Lance: Not that many.
Emmanuelle: Not that many and we didn't screw up, like we always had it, it was weird. I don't know. We were stressing. Lance and I were like hey guys we can get cew cards, we were so nervous.
Lance: I didn't know how I was gonna do it, I have the worst memory in the world. Like the worst and I they sprung this on me, and I was like no.
Question:
If all this would end tomorrow, would you be able to handle the fact and move on and like go to a different career?
Answer:
Lance: Wow! It would be very depressing, I mean this is my life, I love entertaining. I could never see myself doing anything else.
Emmanuelle: Me too! I love other things, but this is my passion for sure.
Question:
What has been the best and worst advice you've gotten?
Answer:
Lance: Best and worst advice?! Best advice I've gotten especially in this business is to really know when to relax and when to say when. 'Cause people are always going to be in your face, do this, do this, do this, oh but if you do this, it will slap you up, but I've learned how to say no, that's one of the things where I've learned to say no. 'Cause I never used to say no, I was always, yes, yes, yes. The worst advice, sign this contract, I will be your business manager, It's normal to take 90% of everything. (laughing)
Emmanuelle: I have to say the best advice has has just been stay true to yourself, always, and that just mean that every situation that comes your way, really, really take a look at it and is everything ok in your heart, if it isn't chances are it's not gonna work out. Worst advice, I've never gotten, was, to be honest, I'm stumpped a little. I've never really had that much bad advice.
Lance: That's good. Or that you know of.
Emmanuelle: Yeah, that I know of, nothings popping out in my head.
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