| On Herself �One summer I looked at myself in a bathing suit and said, �This has got to go.� I began working out and taking care of myself, and I�ve been thin ever since. But I definitely have a good perspective. I love food too much.� On Family "I feel different because I had such an awesome childhood and I had such awesome parents. I have such a great family that if this were to end tomorrow I would never change in their eyes." On College "It's pretty good to be in college with my career. People treat me pretty normally. I think most of all, people just won't talk to me. That's the kind of thing that happens. I think it's kind of like they don't really know what to say." "I definitely expect to go back to college. It's really, really important for me personally. I want that degree. I want those classes. It feels really good to me. I want that." On Boyfriend Chris Evans "My boyfriend, Chris Evans did the most romantic thing for my birthday last year, I woke up in rose petals everywhere. I felt something on my shoulder and there were rose petals. He did it in three different colors � red, white and pink. It was really romantic." On Her Career "Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin." "You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection." "You do sacrifice a lot of things, but then again you get so much more." "It's so weird. You always have some sort of a plan. You think, "Now, it's time to do an action piece. Or something Oscar worthy." You have all these ideas that this is what's going to come next, and you're going to hold out for it. But then, something falls in your lap." On 7th Heaven "I'm up at five in the morning, leave for the set at seven, arrive at seven-thirty, and go to make-up and hair. Then I have school for an hour and a half. Then into wardrobe, rehearse and shoot until two-thirty. Then back on the set to shoot until three-thirty. Then I have school until four-thirty. I go home and learn my lines for the next day and go to sleep!" On The Texas Chainsaw Massacre I never ever once thought about that. I never thought, "How is this going to make me sexy? To me it was, How am I going to make this real?" On Blade "Ryan, when I first with him, I thought he was funny, but he needed to be credible as sort of an action star. They both trained for about six months�I'm not joking�six days a week, three hours a day, lifting weights and fighting. And I know everyone always says they do their own stunts in this film, but the only stunts that both of them didn't do were when we threw them through glass." **I have included the following quotes on and by Jessica concerning the "Gear Controversy" to dispell rumours about her infamous shoot and get the story straight. Jessica Biel Seventeen Magazine January 2004 "I was encouraged to wear sexy clothes that I would not have normally chosen. The little voice inside my head said, ?This is wrong,' but everyone around me said how mature and stunning I would look, so I did it. I was also persuaded to take some of my clothes off. I felt that these people would protect me, but my naivete was taken advantage of. My biggest problem was that I was too embarrassed to say no to all these adults whom I trusted and respected." Jessica Biel Dark Horizons Dot Com Paul Fischer October 17, 2003 "I want to say that because I was 17 years old, it was my first adult photo shoot. It was supposed to be sexy and fun and not at all naked." Biel says "It was just supposed to be underwear, but I got in a situation where I was encouraged and I was not looked after by the people I was working with." Steven Colins USA Weekend Lori Lynch Q: Do you find yourself playing the father role to the young people in the cast, for example, saying to Jessica Biel, you shouldn't have posed for "Gear" magazine? A: When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends. We're like brothers and sisters. I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set. It's not like Jessica came to any of us and asked if it was a good idea. We talked about it after the fact. Jessie was the first one to know she'd made a big mistake. She'd been manipulated, lied to. She learned about 8 million lessons. I said to her, "You're not the first beautiful young actress who has been led down this road. A lot of people have been down this road and survived it." There was no uproar here at all. There just wasn't ... most of the people in the cast didn't even see the magazine. Everyone knew what had happened. It doesn't change anything. Joshua Jackson The WB Sessions Chat Transcript Believe it or not...I admire Jessica Biel for the courage she showed on the Gear Magazine photo shoot. |