Camille Anderson: The Mr. Skin Interview

You played Santa Fe Tart in Intolerable Cruelty and Elevator Hottie #1 in Rock Star. Do you feel you're being typecast as a sexual creature?
No, I'm slowly moving on up. I think when you first come to Hollywood you take the work that you can get. You're just happy to be getting work.

As far as Intolerable Cruelty, that was directed by the Coen Brothers and that in itself was exciting. And my scene was alongside Edward Herrmann and I think he's a really great actor. Aside from what my title is, it was a really good experience.

For those who didn't see the movie, tell us about your mattress-bouncing scene.
It was pretty much cut down a lot, but we were jumping on the bed with Ed Herrmann, the locomotive scene, and there are a few of us singing a song. He dies. We give him a heart attack [laughs].

You played a character called Victim in Psychotic. Is there a future for you as a scream queen?
I've been heading more towards comedy. [Psychotic] was the only thriller-type movie I've done, and it was fun. But it's scary when you're in it. In my scene I had to be attacked and stabbed by a knife by this horrible killer. It truly makes me scared [laughs]. But it was a lot of fun. I think I prefer something towards the comedy side, so I probably won't be a scream queen.

Next up is The Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, which will be your biggest exposure to date.
It was directed by David Dobkin, and he's really cool because he gave everyone a license to do a bit of improv. We didn't have to stick to the script because Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are such great comedic talents that they just kind of run with it. My scenes were with Owen Wilson and we really were able to be creative.

Basically, how it's set up is Owen and Vince, they crash weddings and they like to pick up chicks and pretend like they're a part of the family. Every wedding they go to everyone loves them because they're the life of the party.

Each wedding has a theme, and the wedding I'm in is the Jewish wedding. I'm a member of the wedding party, and Owen makes the moves on me and we have a bunch of dancing scenes. At the end of the night, after the reception, he ends up taking me home. He had his way with me, yes [laughs].

Not only are you fine, you're funny. You performed on the HBO sketch-comedy show Sketch Pad. What's that like?
It's very much like Saturday Night Live, but on HBO, you know what I mean. It's much more over the edge. With HBO you have that ability to kind of push it. So a lot of the comedy and a lot of the skits are sexual.

Does that mean skin?
Oh, no, there's no nudity, but you can get away with a lot more topics. It doesn't have to be so conservative. I played Suzie, a roller-girl, and it takes place in a restaurant, and I'm wearing something like the Hooters uniform. There's a picture on my web site. You can kind of imagine where it goes from there.

You've done some spreads for Gene Simmons Tongue magazine. Any good stories about the notoriously hands-on Kiss star?
I've met him a couple of times. I think he stopped by one of the shoots to say hi. And then I met him at the release party for the magazine. I've never had any crazy experiences with him, but he was always really cool, nice and laidback and complimentary. They wanted a sex-kitten psychiatrist. He was like, yeah, you're great.

No, I hear he's quite the ladies' man.
I hear the same, but unfortunately or fortunately, he was respectful of me.

Have you ever been naked onscreen?
Not so far, not in any of the movies. Some of my layouts in magazines have been kind of risqu?Like Loaded, that was pretty much my most risqu?ayout.

Do tell . . .
I'm pretty much bare [laughs] except my hair is over my, um, shoulders. It covers me, just a little bit.

Would you take off your clothes in a movie?
I would consider it if it was the right role.

What would be the right role?
Actually, you know what, in The Wedding Crashers we have a scene where I was with Owen and it was really shadowy, but one time I have a bra and then my bra comes off. So, you know, I've already kind of done it, I guess. I lied [laughs].

That's sure to get you on the site, since you've now crashed through the skin barrier. How about the first time you saw nudity onscreen?
My parents always had HBO movies on when I was growing up and there was always a lot of nudity in them. I don't even remember the first one I saw. What was that one with Jaime Pressly (Picture: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5) ?

Poison Ivy: The New Seduction?
For some reason I'm remembering that.

Lots of nudity to remember from that flick.
I think I remember it because I was home alone and flicking through the TV and started watching it and thought, Oh, my gosh. Lots of boobs!

Besides TV and film, you've been a stage actress, though in a Stuff magazine-produced play called Pieces (of Ass)--explain, I'm confused.
It ran in New York and I did the show in L.A. They have different guests for each week's show and I was one of the guest stars for two weeks. It's basically about ten girls getting up on stage individually and for about fifteen minutes. Each girl has this monologue about their personal experiences in life. Mine was about dating in L.A.

I wrote my own monologue in conjunction with the producer. It's all about my funny experiences. I'm from Texas so I compared dating in Texas to dating out here. I was talking about all the different people you can date out here, like producers, agents, the model-types, and the actors, businessmen. I started to talk about chivalry out in Texas and then you get out here and it's completely different.

Are men pigs in L.A. and gentlemen in Texas, is that the bottom line?
There's a little bit of that [laughs]. I wouldn't say they're pigs out here, but you can't be a sweet Texas girl if you're dating in L.A. You'll be a sheep set to slaughter.

Why, have you been introduced to the fabled casting couch?
No, thank goodness. I never had the casting-couch thing happen. But you can definitely get yourself into some bad positions if you don't watch out.

Speaking of bad positions, you're in the WWE Diva Search. What's that all about?
You can go to WWE.com, ten finalists are on there. They started out their search in L.A., Chicago, and New York, and hundreds and hundreds of girls showed up for this audition. My agent sent me and when I got there it was crazy. There were so many girls.

They ended up making a show out of it, which I didn't know. But it's a blast. I made it in L.A. They chose twenty-eight girls to go on to New York, and there they did a live TV show for Spike TV, an hour-and-a-half special where they had all the girls from all around the country competing for these ten spots.

It was really exciting. They put us through the wringer. It was really nerve-wracking, especially being on live TV in your bikini [laughs]. But I made it to the top ten and now we have a show each week on Monday night. One girl's eliminated each week, and the final girl who's chosen, she wins a contract and you're the face of the WWE. You're in their skits, you're always at the show.

Are you going to wrestle?
You have that choice if you want to, and I've done a lot of martial arts. I don't know if I'd wrestle, but I'd certainly be open to it [laughs]. Why not?

Do you have a favorite grappler, one you'd like to wrestle with?
As far as the women, I really like Trish Stratus. She is really sweet and fun. She's awesome at what she does. My favorite guy wrestler would have to be Chris Jericho. But I couldn't wrestle with him because he's too strong [laughs].

You've hosted some episodes of E!'s Wild On series. What's the wildest thing that didn't make it to the final edit?
You're interviewing a bunch of drunk people who are willing to do anything. It's always fun to do that because they're willing to do body shots--grab a guy and do it--anything at your command. It's fun. It all makes it on the air.

Are you going to do another one of those?
I just booked a show and it's called Girls Night Out. It's very similar to Wild On and it's slated for ten episodes. It's kind of the same premise except we focus on all nightspots.

Before you leave us, do you have anything to say to Mr. Skin?
Thanks for appreciating women so much, and thanks for thinking that our bodies are beautiful!


All images of Camille Anderson are courtesy of CamilleAnderson.com.