Aly Interviewed for UK Magazine

[Geek]

OK, yesterday my mate Jimbo had a cosy chat over the phone with Aly....as yer do (lucky git)



He works for Total Film UK, this will all be in the September edition strangley out in England on July 30th.



Aly Hannigan, 17/06/03



What's the last movie you saw at the cinema?

This is a very easy question because I just saw the most amazing movie called Winged Migration. It is just phenomenal. It's the best movie I've

seen this year. I loved it- it should win any and every award it can because the cinematography was just incredible. I felt like a bird. And you have to see it on a really, really nice sized screen with good sound.



What's the most ridiculous rumour you've ever heard about yourself?

I heard that I was dead once. That was a rumour on the internet that a lot of my friends started believing. Then it got to a news radio station and they called my agent. Nobody could get in touch with me because my pager had died- ironically- and I was out by myself shopping, on a day

off and the news station was like:: "well, we're just going to run with this story even if we can't verify that it's not true!" That's great reporting. It was very weird and it freaked a lot of my friends out. People went over to my house and saw the dogs and were breaking down going: (puts on exaggerated weepy voice) "Who's going to take care of

the dogs." It was very sad. For them. I was fine, I was at the

bookstore... It was just so random, the timing of it all.



What's the strangest place you've ever seen your own image?

Oh, man. Oh! You know where the weirdest place I ever saw myself was? My fiancee (actor Alexis Denisof) and I were on a road trip, right after the second American Pie movie and we were in the middle of the mountains somewhere at this tiny mom and pop gas station and we were looking for

some snacks. I saw my picture on the frickin' beef jerky box. Yeah. It was some sort of promotion that I knew nothing about for Slim Jims and in the picture I was standing there in my little band camp outfit with a

flute on the box. I'm like: "Okay, first of all, that is not okay. How is it possible that I can be promoting these poor little slaughtered pigs without my approval? I think we kinda signed away all of our rights." It was very odd.



Are you a vegetarian?

I don't eat anything I would own. (Jo - say nuthin! )



No trips to Korea in your future, then...

(Laughs) Awww... I always wanted to have a little pig, so I don't eat them.





What's the best compliment you've ever been given?Wow... I guess just that I'm funny. That was nice.



What's your favourite Steve Guttenberg movie?

Three Men And a Baby. I love that movie. It was sweet and funny and there's just something about men with babies. I love that.



Lots of Anne Geddes calendars, then?

I can appreciate a nice black and white naked man holding naked baby. Naked buff man!



What ringtone do you have on your cellphone?

Well, I think for my fiancee, it's a specialised ring. It's kind of like this salsa thing, my salsa lover. But I think it's just some trumpety thing. I forgot the title.



What's your favourite smell?

Cookies. Warm, baking cookies.



What's your favourite cheese?

Gruyère. But it has to be melted on soup, it's good on French Onion soup. And it depends what the situation is. Mozzarella for pizza, but also goat's cheese. I'm a big Gruyère fan.

(Ruth, down girl!..er no not like that)



What's your most regrettable haircut?

I had a perm once. That was early teens- it was my decision and it was /bad/. It was the '80's and it was just a huge mistake.



What's the worst piece of advice you've ever been given?Just recently, I was meeting with a wedding planner and she said something about, "Don't worry... You're not going to remember a moment of your wedding." That was so bad! I want to be fully present for mine! I thought that was depressing- I think she was trying to say get a videographer, but it seemed really sad and pathetic.



Who did you take to the prom?

I don't even remember his name! It was a sweet guy, but the guy I really wanted to go with didn't want to go. Poor me. So the one I took was a guy in my drama class in high school and he owned a tuxedo, so it was like, "Okay, thanks. You'll do." It wasn't really my thing anyway. It was no big deal.



Tell us your best joke.

I do love England and don't want to be booted out when I come over again. Oh... It's tough to think of clean jokes... I'll tell you my dirty joke.

How do you get a dog to stop humping your leg? Pick him up and suck him off!

That's one of my favourite jokes just because of the shock value. People are horrified when I tell it. I'm never going to be allowed into England again. The Queen will ban me.



Any hobbies?

Lately, I just took up knitting. But I don't do anything other than scarves. I don't hold out high hopes for sweaters. I don't dedicate a lot of time to it. But it's enjoyable on set. I thought it would be relaxing, but then I realised that I was so tense, worried about doing it right. I really needed to calm down and breathe. I got hassle for it on Buffy. I brought my knitting on set and we had a bunch of girls playing Slayer potentials and they gave me such shit. They were laughing

and saying I was this little old lady. By the end of the year, every single one of them was knitting. I was like, "See, you mocked me and now look!"



Well there are a few choice tidbits from it.....



There's quite a bit more too, but James would beat me to death with my own shoes if I wrote it all out before its published.



Jo xx

"Pretty darn lickable"

[hellmouthhottie20]

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, thanks for that



We would never kick you out aly, you can say whatever you like.



Only Aly could make knitting sound cool



Thanks again.



Caz

However long the night....dawn will break

[Nix42]

Nice one Jo, thanks! James is a lucky, lucky boy.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[Warduke]

Thanks Jo, James is very lucky indeed.

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Lil' Trevor : Always the life of the party.

[Willow Rocks]

Gawd that joke she has just told has gave me even more love for Alyson she actully made me laugh at a joke which is really hard to do defently getting this when it comes out.

[Gatito Grande]

That joke! Her humor is where you can see the biggest difference between Aly and "Willow" (well, other than Alexis, of course! )



GG When I look at that picture of her w/ the wolf, I'm gonna be thinking of that joke from now on, though . . . Out

[Laika 27]

Thanks for the sneak preview Jo, it's really cheered up my week !. I can just imagine the headlines...'Aly Banned By The Queen Of England' and it's great to know I'm not the only one who can only do straight knitting.

[3peanuts]

Thanks a lot for your post.



Is envy allowed on the Kitten?



I should stalk that friend of mine who organizes conventions...

"Cunning linguist" GG

Keynes was right

[kajo 2000]

phoenixheart at Spoiler Crypt has posted a transcript of this interview, which is in the September issue of Total Film magazine (some of the questions from the sneak preview that Geek kindly provided seem to be missing from the final article):

Quote:

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TF: What was the last film you saw in the cinema?



AH: I just saw the most amazing movie about birds called Winged Migration. It's just phenomenal. It should win an y and every award it can because the cinematography was totally incredible. I felt like I was flying.



TF: Tell us the stupidist rumour you've ever heard about yourself.



AH: I heard that I was dead once. That was a rumour on the internet, then it got to a news radio station and they called my agent. Nobody could get in touch with me because my pager had died - ironically - and I was out by myself shopping. The news station was like:"Well, we're just going to run this story even if we can't verify it's true!" That's great. It freaked a lot of my friends out. People went over to my house and saw my dogs and were breaking down going: [puts on weepy voice] "Who's going to take care of the dogs?" It was very sad. For them. I was fine, I was at the bookstore...



TF: What's the strangest place you'v ever seen your own image?



AH: Oh, man. It was when my fiance [actor Alexis Denisof] and I were on a road trip, right after the second American Pie movie. We were in the middle of the mountains somewhere at this tiny gas station and we were looking for some snacks. I saw my picture on a frickin' beef jerky box. Yeah. It was some sort of promotion that I knew nothing about for Slim Jims. In the picture I was standing there in my band-camp outfit with a flute. I'm like:"That is not okay. How is it possible I can be promoting these slaughtered animals without my approval?" I think we kinda signed away all our rights. It was very odd.



TF: Who did you have on your bedroom wall as a kid?



AH: Beatles posters - John Lennon in particular. I had some James Dean. I was very into dead people. [Pauses] Not that the rest of The Beatles were dead. But John was dead...Early on, before my teen days, I had Michael Jackson and Ricky Schroder.



TF: When did you last use public transport?



AH: Probably when I was in England last. So, three weeks ago in London when I used the tube. My friend is obsessed with the tube. If he meets someone from Engalnd, he's like: "Oh, what tube stop do you live near?"



TF: What's your favourite Steve Guttenberg movie?



AH: Three Men and a Baby. I love that. It was sweet and funny and there's just something about men with babies that really gets me...



TF: You must own lots of Anne Geddes' [photographer who takes loads of 'whimisical' baby pics] calendars, then...



AH: Yeah, I can appreciate a good-looking black-and-white naked man holding a naked man. Naked buff man!



TF: Name a book you've read more than three times.



AH: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss. It was a teenage thing [laughs].



TF: Have you ever seen a ghost?



AH: I have a ghost in my house! I saw him a couple of months ago. I don't think he died there because there's a law in LA that when you buy a house, if somebody died there, they have to dislose that. So I don't know why he's there. But he's very friendly. My friend saw him forst one night. She said: "I don't mean to alarm you but I just saw a man follow us out of the house." And I said: "Well, at least he's gentlemanly, he let us go first." But later that night, I saw this silhouette of a man standing in the bathroom doorway. I was like: "Sweetie, what are you doing?" I thought it was Alexis. But then I looked and Alexis was asleep next to me. I'd love to get his name. I thinking of putting alittle chalk board where I think he lives to see if he will write his name down.



TF: Are you a cat person or a dog person?



AH: I'm both. I'm completely both.



TF: Denis Leary told us he prefers dogs because you have rescue dogs. Not rescue cats or birds.



AH: Well, I've heard that the coast guard has been training pigeons to spot people that are drowning or lost at sea. So there goes the bird theory. And once he see's Winged Migration, he'll take that comment back.



TF: What's your favourite smell?



AH: Cookies. Baking cookies.



TF: And your favourite cheese?



AH: Gruyere. But it has to be melted on soup, it's good on French onion soup. And it depends on what the situation is. Mozzarella for pizza but goats cheese is nice too. I'm a big cheese fan.



TF: You have a time machine. Forwards or backwards?



AH: Probably into the past. I think I might go all the way back to see how things started. To get more clarification. Hang out with dinosaurs, see what the real situation was like.



TF: You can turn invisible. Describe your first act.



AH: I would go into the White House and find out what goes on behind closed doors.



TF: Tell us your best joke.



AH: I do love Engalnd and don't want to be booted out when I come over again. Oh...It's tough to think of clean jokes...I'll tell you my dirty joke: how do you get a dog to stop humping your leg? Pick him up and suck him off! Ha, ha! I'm never going to be allowed in England again. The Queen will ban me...

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"I want to be Byron... because I want to date young boys." Amber Benson

Edited by: kajo 2000 at: 8/3/03 3:01 am

[urnofosiris]

Thanks for reposting that Kajo, and thanks to the person who transcribed it. I see some of the answers have been shortened and even rephrased a bit. In this case not a big deal maybe but it does bother me. Sometimes a small change can give a whole new (unwanted) meaning to a statement. Anyway, this is a nice interview, some funny insights. What's up with that law in LA? Is that for real? Oh and a haunted house in LA. That I have to see next time I go to there, along with the Hollywood sign that has so far eluded me.

Bless Aly, I can just picture her hanging out with those dinosaurs, hee, I love animals too, but I am perfectly comfortable to have 60 millions years of extinction between me and most meat eating dinosaurs.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

Edited by: DrG at: 8/3/03 2:57 am

[chilled monkey]

That was a great interview, thank you for posting it.



I loved the 'rescue pigeons' part.



DrG: I agree with you about imagining Aly hanging out with dinosaurs!

[xita]

That's a very cute interview. Very interesting questions, I like the fact that she cares about the products her image is being used to advertise. Thanks Kajo and transcriber!

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[Gatito Grande]

Quote:

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TF: What's your favourite smell?



AH: Cookies. Baking cookies.

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"Eat a cookie, ease my pain!"



Thanks for posting this, kajo!



Y'know, when I listen to Aly in interviews, she sounds so natural and so much fun, that I can almost imagine myself "just hanging out" w/ her.



. . . and then I remember this is Aly, and I'm back to -ing and -ing !!!



GG Like, could I pretend to be heterosexual---or just laid back---long enough to not scare her off? Out

[kajo 2000]

There are scans of this article at alysonhannigancorner.com.

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"I want to be Byron... because I want to date young boys." Amber Benson