Beauty JESSICA BIEL chats to
ELLE about becoming a bona fide movie star:
* On being famous: I cant even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. Youre seen in public with anybody that you might not even know and youre speculated about. It makes everything hard because you cant even go to pick up a prescription without somebody trying to snap a photo of what you have in your Long Drugs bag. Thank goodness Im a nice person.
* On still struggling to get parts she wants: Parts that I want arent going to me. Like The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I dont want to say theres nothing I love that I cant have. But theres still the occasional script that the director doesnt want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls.
* On having Her Moment: The scary thing is that if its your moment, that eventually disappears. I think about reaching for the moment, but never really achieving it. That way Im always striving.
* On being named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine: I thought the Esquire cover was going to be really positive for my career. But it wasnt, really. [One director told me] Im not looking for the sexiest woman; Im looking for the girl next door.
* On celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday in March 2007: Someone said, You have five years till 30. I started to think, Wow over the next five years my life could really change personally.
* On being considered buff: This is the thinnest and the least muscular Ive been in a long time. Im so lean and feminine.
* On posing topless for Gear Magazine at 17: I was all over the place. I was being a rebellious teenager.
ELLES JUNE ISSUE, HITS NEWSSTANDS IN NY/LA ON TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2007.
