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DIRECTOR ROBERT LUKETIC:
Will this film shatter America?s innocence about Hollywood?
No, it operates more on a human level. I think it kind of, if anything, still celebrates the glamour and danger that we all perceive Hollywood to be. But at the end of the day, I still think that we deal with human emotions and things. I think that?s a thing that I like to explore in my movies. As wild as the scenario may be, it still comes down to the basic human emotions.

It doesn?t shatter anything. I think it celebrates and it?s an exploration of life in Hollywood.

How does the film represent your sensibilities?
For me, again, I very much saw Hollywood through Rosie?s eyes, through the rose-tinted windows. I thought that was really exciting and thrilling to see, to have the adventure coming because we all work in this business and we see it and we can become sort of jaded, but we have to think about how the world perceives Hollywood to be. It is still an incredibly thrilling, exciting thing and I thought I?d like to explore that cinematically. What is it about that thrill? What is the fascination? Why do we become obsessed with people?s lives? I find that really fascinating stuff.

Why is it?
Because we all wish and hope and dream. We see these people on screen who are larger than life, living lives of excitement, because, let?s face it, for the majority of us in the world, we work hard and we strive to have a better place in the world or we have all sorts of emotional difficulties and the world is a dangerous place right now.

Maybe for an hour and a half we can sit in the cinema and just forget about it. It?s an important thing. Up on the big screen, or on the small screen with the advent of DVD and stuff like that, we form very personal relationships with these people for an hour and a half. It?s almost like having an affair for an hour and a half.

Is it just a coincidence that you have another blonde leading lady?
I think it?s a coincidence, but I think in my mind?s eye, I think when you read a script, you develop a picture of the person and it may not necessarily look like any actors that exist, but your mind does a funny thing. You form an image. I always thought of her as blonde. I think I love the color blonde, but as much as anything, it?s a coincidence.

It?s been good to you though.
Blonde has been really good to me, I have to say.

Is Kate?s character supposed to be an ugly duckling?
Not at all. No. I mean, Kate?s character, Rosalie, is neither aware nor in denial about the way she looks. She just is. She?s just a person who happens to be pretty. She?s nice to look at. I think she?s very unconscious of it.

So why is she obsessed with celebrity instead of the people around her?
For the same reason we all fall in love with celebrity. It?s a dangerous taste of a life that?s idolized on the screen. It?s how life is.

Is this a romantic comedy where we?ll know she ends up with the friend?
No. I think there?s a few little [twists]. I mean, let?s face it. There is a structure to romantic comedies and for the filmmakers, the challenge is making that journey fun. I think there are enough diversions and twists in the movie, without giving away who she ends up with, but you may be very surprised who she ends up with in the end, in the way that it unfolds.

Who would you like to win a date with?
Oh, that?s a hard one. Can I have three? I want to win a date with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman whilst they were together, and now I want to win a date with Charo.

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