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6/16/02 We're Hangin' With....The "Reel" FRED AND VELMA! FREDDIE PRINZE JR. AND LINDA CARDELLINI by Lynn b. Surrounded by props from Scooby Doo's Spooky Island set, we met with the cast on the Warner Brothers lot in L.A. First thing we noticed is, hey, Freddie Prinze looks better as a brunette than as blondie Fred and Linda Cardellini is way hotter than Velma!! The actors talked about their Scooby adventures and future plans. AGW: How
did you two feel about your characters? Freddie: I loved the little flashes of arrogance that Fred showed in the cartoon and his machismo, even though he's a paleface. I really tried to make him as narcissistic as humanly possible so that when that (story) he's created of being the perfect man sort of fades away, his entire world comes crashing down at once and it's good when people laugh at him even though he's my friend. Linda: I'd watched the cartoon ever since I was little. It was my favorite growing up so I knew a lot of (Velma's) mannerisms. It was funny to, as your homework or your research, be able to watch cartoons. So I'd watch just how she's drawn and what her mouth does and what her face does and her voices. Then you get to fill in the gaps. I thought it was fun to make her extremely sensitive but also emotionally repressed. AGW: At
one point in the film, Velma sheds that uptight turtleneck sweater for
a racy Vee-neck. What was with that? AGW: Linda, In high school, were you more of a Daphne or a Velma? Linda: I was neither here nor there. I played some sports. I was in theater. I did well in school but I wasn't a brain so I managed to fall somewhere in the gray area. Freddie: She was the jock. She's being modest right now but she played soccer all over the world. Linda: I couldn't play in high school though because I was doing theater. AGW: Can you talk about the challenges in Scooby of working opposite things that aren't there? Linda: It's the most technical acting I've ever had to do. You sort of have to mark where you stare and stare where they mark. Especially with the creatures. I was lifted up and was pulling on his mask and his face and, for the first few weeks, I felt like I wasn't getting it right. Then I realized that it was much more fun and not has hard as I was making it. (To Freddie) You had to nudge me a couple of times to look in the right spot. Freddie: It was a challenge that I think everyone welcomed and it was successfully tackled but acting's hard enough on its own. You have to trick your mind into believing you're someone else and you're reacting to things differently than you normally would. To do that to nothing is very very tricky. But you want to see if you're capable of doing it. You want to see if you're up to the challenge. It was hard but it was fun. AGW: What was the most difficult scene?
Freddie: They literally put a stick in the back of your head and you couldn't move your head or it would mess up the digital work. Linda: But you still had to deliver your lines as though you were in danger of losing your life or your protoplasm. AGW: Okay, Fred, do blondes have more fun? Freddie: (laughs) Not this one. (When friends would say) 'hey, Freddie, we're gonna play some football' it's just so unmanly to say 'Uh, I gotta get my roots done'. It was a little tricky. My hair, apparently doesn't hold color so every nine days I got to start the whole 8 hour process over from scratch but it was light suffering, I promise. It wasn't that big of a deal. AGW: What is your natural high in life or your anti-drug? Linda: That's a good one. I'd have to say acting I guess. Freddie: I would say, make-believe and fantasy. I've done it since I was five years old and I still have pretend friends to this day. Don't ask any harsh questions because they're right there. AGW: We had a press conference earlier with Scooby Doo and he said he was invited to your wedding and would be your best man. Freddie: He is. Well, it's him or Scooby Dum. It's up for grabs but if you tell him that, he'll be hurt so that's between us and your readers. AGW: What CD's are you listening to right now? Freddie: I listen to the same CD's over and over again. I love Garbage. I love Shirley Manson. My home girl. I listen to all their CD's. I have their new one now. This kind of electronica type music is out now called Hybrid. Linda: I have Mary J. Blige in my car. And I have some old Michael Jackson in there too. "Off the Wall" and a little "Man in the Mirror" mixed in there. AGW: Do you think this kind of blockbuster may open new roles for you? What kinds of parts would you want to go for? Linda: As an actor, you're sort of at the mercy of the material that you receive and if you find something and you like it, you have to hope they like you. So, it's a question of what's out there more than deciding what I'd like to play and trying to find that. For me, I love to act. It doesn't matter what genre. As long as it's an interesting character. Maybe it will be something fun. Maybe it will be something terribly honest and emotionally raw. I don't know. Freddie: I try to just pick characters based on what I'm going through at that point. The thoughts that I'm having, the freaked-out dreams that I'm having, the fantasies that exist in my head and when an opportunity comes to do something along those lines, I always jump after it so I honestly couldn't tell you. What I would tell you today might be completely different tomorrow. AGW: What were you going through that Scooby Doo spoke to? Freddie:
My whole world is comics and cartoons. I literally love make-believe.
I love story telling. I love that aspect of it and Scooby is in the top
three cartoons and fantasies that I ever had. I wanted to be Scooby Doo
when I was a little kid. He was a talking dog. So when that opportunity
arose and I read the script and saw how fantastic it was. I had to be
involved. AGW: What is your ideal Spring Break get-away? Don't say Spooky Island. Freddie: No, No. I hated it. Spooky island was a little rough. I love going to Hawaii. It's close enough to home and far enough that you feel like you're on the opposite end of the world. The weather is perfect. Linda: I might say Mexico. I think there are a lot of fun places to see in Mexico and you're in a different country but you're not that far from home. AGW: Do you guys have a favorite Scooby episode? Freddie: I like the Creeper so…he was this big green Hulk guy with like red hair. He was a man in a mask and he was basically just a petty little jewel thief and they exposed him for the fraud that he was. Linda: I liked any episode with Scooby Dum. He guest-starred and I was always very excited. AGW: Are you worried that if this film in successful with the inevitable sequels, that you'll never be able to branch away from it? Linda: I guess if I had to be Velma forever I might be a little worried but if people love the movie that much, I think that's exciting. Hopefully, I'm a good enough actor that it won't be a problem but if it is, then it wasn't meant to be for me to be something else. I changed my look and the way I talk so maybe that will help. Freddie: I don't really worry about it. I've been battling stereotypes since I moved to Hollywood. When I first came out here nobody thought I would do anything but sitcoms like my father. I wasn't in any position to pick and choose but I wouldn't go out on t.v.(auditions). I only went out on films. And then people said that I wasn't funny and then I do Scooby Doo, so I think I'm constantly going through that. I welcome that. I want people to say I'm not capable of doing something so that when I do it, I sit at the table and I look at them and they know. AGW: Freddie, you and Sarah have a collaboration on Happily N'Ever After. It's animated? Freddie: Yes. It's sort of what if all the wonderful fairy tales were reversed and the bad guys won. So the good guys have to band together and become this little swat team and infiltrate the castle and save the day. Little Red Riding Hood turns her cloak inside out and it's camouflage and we teach the prince how to be a prince instead of reading it out of his rule book. The Seven Dwarves are militia men and we're ready to rock and roll. AGW: Linda, were you happy that Velma was the brains of the organization, a sort of girl power thing?
Freddie: They'll give you a little love. You just have to ask.
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Linda:
I would probably say the creature when they bust into the hotel and they
take us. (To Freddie) I know you were spun up on wires. Then being the
(ghost) heads, that was also really tricky because our faces were painted
entirely silver and we were wearing blue from here (neck) down. 
Linda:
Yes, I love that she's the brains. She's a woman. Doesn't care what she
looks like. It's not about what she wears, same outfit every day. She
puts the uniform on and she gets to work. When I read the script her character
seemed so funny. She had so much going on. You always know that she's
been the odd man out when you watch the cartoon. It's the joke that Velma
has nobody. Fred and Daphne have each other and Fred and Scooby have each
other and poor Velma's somewhere in the middle.