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ISCA: Do you compose
as well?
SOHEIL: That's not
my calling. If you don't start as a child...
LEELEE: They say the
younger generation has a terrible permanent case of Attention Deficit
Disorder. I don't really think that exists. I think everybody's attention
span is so, so short. And I don't think they're used to being able to
sit through a really, really long piece of music that's not jumping all
over the place.
SOHEIL: That's right.
LEELEE: So I don't
know what, being in the classical music field, you can do, but I feel
that if there's a way to "MTV" it- and I know it sounds strange-
but let's say you were to get a really artistic, inventive director to
direct a video...
DAMON: Put some rap
on it.
LEELEE: If you had
kind of an artistic, crazy video that went with a powerful, showy piece
that crescendoed, with a kaleidoscope of bizarre images, I think that
could capture the attention.
SOHEIL: Chopin's "The
Ocean" would be a good piece for that.
LEELEE: All right,
concepts: Here we go, "The Ocean." What everybody thinks would
be under the ocean when you're swimming- everyone's worst nightmare- the
most frightening video clip. It becomes very showy and over the top.
DAMON: You've got
a million-dollar video there.
GOTHAM: Leelee, what's
the most fun movie you've done?
LEELEE: Sometimes
you have the most fun doing like the worst films. I just did a film all
in French called L'Idole and we shot in Paris. That was really
nice.
DAMON: I bet. You
spoke French in it?
LEELEE: Yes. My dad's
French. It was all about a friendship between myself and an elderly Chinese
gentleman of about 80 years old.
GOTHAM: That sounds
kinky.
DAMON: Sexual?
LEELEE: Just a friendship.
There were two loves scenes with another gentleman, a younger one.
ISCA: How was that?
LEELEE: Very strange,
and not sexy at all. This talented young actor refused to wear anything...
DAMON: He was buck
naked?
LEELEE: Yes. We had
a love scene on a wooden floor.
ISCA: Wide bonds?
GOTHAM: Splinters?
LEELEE: I wore a nightgown
and he wouldn't wear anything. It was machismo. And he wouldn't
wear deodorant.
EVERYONE: How very
French!!
LEELEE: But he's fantastic
in the film. I did a film recently where I had a very small part but then
I got to play John Cusack's mistress. That was fun. I'd never been the
mistress before.
DAMON: You're moving
up.
GOTHAM: Who did you
work with that you really loved? Any legends?
LEELEE: Stanley Kubrick,
a lot. He was a master.
GOTHAM: I liked Eyes
Wide Shut. It induced a dream state in me.
LEELEE: His films
are so varied. He goes into a lot of different directions. Whatever anybody's
last work is, that's what you expect.
DAMON: [To Leelee]
Do you party a lot? Hang out?
GOTHAM: Love that
segue.
LEELEE: I like dancing.
I like walking around New York and lying down on the sidewalk. It's very
interesting to watch people step over you and be confused. When I laugh
very hard, I have to lie down on the sidewalk.
GOTHAM: Remember
in Eyes Wide Shut when Leelee was this nubile thing in the little
white underwear?
LEELEE: Blue underwear.
I tried on 40 pairs. I was 14. I didn't have any breasts at that point.
I wore those fake silicone things called "Moniques."
SOHEIL: I loved you
in that movie. I fantasized about you after that.
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