He's a man after my own heart - the kind who would put a starved dingo and a two-year-old bathed in meat sauce in a sandbox and see what fun ensues. Yes he's CHUD boy Smilin' Jack Ruby and this week he talked with former "Buffy" sister Michelle Trachtenberg whose bikini-clad cleavage is a big selling point for Dreamworks latest comedy in the old "Porkys" vein.
Since her show has ended, the girl has lined up some pretty impressive projects in her future - most notably a new film from edgy but always creative director Gregg Araki ("Doom Generation", "Splendor"), a light Disney romance, an indie project:
"Ice Princess" "I'm in ice skating training for my next movie. I'm in three months of training, I skate five days a week and on top of that,Six Feet Under had me doing choreography practice, so I was doing that for four hours a day. But it's called Disney's Ice Princess and I am the "ice princess." It's a story of a girl who has always dreamed of being a figure skater, but her family is very studious and very intent on getting her into Harvard. So, she devises a plan through her knowledge of physics and talks to the three big figure skaters in her town and says, 'Okay, I'll teach you about physics and how to be a better skater through physics if you let me work with your coach and choreographer.' I get the chance to be a wonderful skater and there's a love story involved. I'm doing a lot of my own skating, but the triple axles, I'm obviously not going to be required to do, because that takes years of training"
"Mysterious Skin" "After Eurotrip, I took a week off, flew back to L.A. and I went into Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, which is a very dark movie. I'm incredibly proud of this movie. It's based on a true story about two boys who were sexually molested when they were younger - based on a book, actually, about a true story.
One of the boys is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who is basically a homosexual who really goes out and whores himself out. He sells himself. The other boy is played by Brady Corbet, who is confused and thinks he was abducted by aliens. I play his best friend. He's the only person he's able to confide in and really I help his character discover the importance of embracing and understanding what happened to him when he was younger and how these two boys deal with it"
<strong>"Odd Girl Out" </strong>
"It's another independent movie I'm doing with Bijou Phillips about two girls in a private school and one is the rebellious wild child and one is the perfect bitch. I'm the perfect bitch. I'm the queen of the private school and it's a dark, little rivalry that we have. Of course, there's much more emotional problems involved. It's an independent movie, so come on!"
<strong>"Buffy: The Movie"</strong>
Could it happen? "You know, never say never. Right now, I'm more focused on new aspects of my career. I'm not really wanting to go back and repeat characters because I think that's just not as exciting"
For more of that interview, plus comments from spunk Scott Mechlowicz talking "Mean Creek", be sure to <a href="http://www.chud.com/news/feb04/feb17euro.php3" target="_blank">click here</a>.
Thanks again to 'Smilin Jack Ruby'
