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Blonde Audition - Laurie Holden - Details Magazine, Nov 2001
Summary: Short interview with Laurie Holden, Details, November 2001, p.62. Discusses her The Majestic audition, THOSE Jim Carrey rumours, and more. Transcribed by Deslea.

In The Works: Blonde Audition
By Alexandra Zissu

Details, November 2001, p.62.

Who Is Laurie Holden?

She's Jim Carrey's latest leading lady, a 28-year-old towhead who snagged the much-coveted starring role opposite the Ritalin-deprived funnyman in next month's Capra-esque drama The Majestic. The last no-name blonde to land such a gig: The Mask's Cameron Diaz. Holden's too humble to predict her own bombshell breakthrough, but she does have a Plan B if all that platinum doesn't shine: She studied economics at UCLA.

She's no humdrum Lauren Holly lookalike. Nor is she - no matter what the tabloids say - having an affair with Jim Carrey. "This is the first time I've been romantically linked with someone in the Enquirer," Holden says, rolling her eyes. "Neither of us has a significant other - so it was no big deal." (The last S.O. with whom Holden locked elbows down a red carpet was her best girlfriend; her stepfather will squire her at the Majestic premiere.) "It was kind of hilarious," she says of the canoodling-with-Carrey rumours, "only because there is absolutely no validity to it. We were shooting a Christmas movie. There were no love scenes. There isn't even French-kissing!"

She's got a few pronunciation problems, but no-one's asking for a speech therapist. "The director [Frank Darabont] called me," Holden says, recounting the strange events the followed her Majestic screen test. "He said, 'You pronounced a name wrong. It wasn't TOOLy Wentworth. It's TALLy Wentworth.' I said, 'Okay. TALLy Wentworth.' And he said, 'Congratulations. You got the part.' I was in shock." So, presumably, were a few other actresses.

She's from that mysterious land that sets the Hollywood imagination afire: Canada. Well, partly: Despite a childhood in Toronto, thanks to a mother from Vancouver, her father is a true-blue New Yorker. "I have my roots in both countries," she says. So don't ask her to choose, no matter what fellow Canuck Carrey says. "I wouldn't want to give up any citizenship."

She looks like someone you've seen before - probably because you have. Holden, whose parents are proper thespians, has done TV and celluloid since nursery school. Her first role: Rock Hudson's daughter (at age 6) in the mini-series The Martian Chronicles, directed by her stepfather Michael Anderson, who helmed the cheesy 1976 sci-fi classic Logan's Run; latter-day sci-fi specialists may recognise her as the X Files' sometime spy Marita Covarrubias. Holden may not continue on the X Files, but the show has certainly shaped her sensibility. In terms of her future, she says, "Who knows what's around the corner?"

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