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CARLA COLLINS
Welcome back to Chez Carla, joining me at the big ass martini glass is the star of Felicity and major motion pictures, all to be released very soon is Canada's sweetest bo hunk, Scott Speedman, Welcome...

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Thank you, thank you.

CARLA COLLINS
What are you drinking, Scottie?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Ah, it's Corona.

CARLA COLLINS
Corona, can I see some I.D.?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Scott laughs and mumbles something here.

CARLA COLLINS
Got some regulations here, can't be too......

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
19 here though, isn't it? It's 21 down there.

CARLA COLLINS
And where are you?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
24

CARLA COLLINS
24, my goodness boy, I've got implants older than you. 24 years old and livin' la vida loca, it's going well for you isn't it?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
It's going good, it's been a grind, we're on the last couple of episodes of Felicity, and it's been like just crazy. We've been working about 16 hours a day, shooting nights, and it's just been nuts.

CARLA COLLINS
But you're young, you the the stamina.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
But it's hard, it's a lot harder than it seems you know, we've been shooting nights and we start about 6 at night and finish about 8 in the morning, it's just not good.

CARLA COLLINS
The graveyard shift, yeah they think it's all glamour, but come on now, we know the real story.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
It's really not.

CARLA COLLINS
I like the caddyshack vibe you've got going on, Scottie.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Scott laughing and adjusts his hat: A friend on the show gave it to me, he's an American and he had this hat and I said, "You know, you're not even Canadian man, I gotta steal it, I gotta steal it", so he gave it to me and I promised him I'd wear it on this show.

CARLA COLLINS
Oh, his designer import, says "Canada", this way I don't get hasseled in Europe, fantastic.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
(Laughing)
Right.

CARLA COLLINS
Listen, your doing so well and I know some people are probably familiar with your story, but not everybody, tell us how you started because it's kind of funny.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Oh yeah, um, a girlfriend of mine, I just, I was a swimmer growing up and I'd gotten injured, and a girlfriend of mine, right after I'd gotten injured dared me to go down to Speakers Corner, a thing down at Much Music, and audition for Batman Forever, the Boy Wonder part, so I put my looney in, I was so nervous, I just said my name and where I was from, and the phone number and ran out of the booth.

CARLA COLLINS
No Hamlet?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
No Hamlet, just my name, and my phone number. And, Mali Finn, this casting director, called my Mom, and ah, you know, wanted me to come down and audition. She (his Mom) was all worried about me cause it was at this hotel, and ah, she didn't want to let me go.

CARLA COLLINS
Those hotels, you don't know a what's going on. drug deals.....

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, she thought it was some kind of weird porno or something.

CARLA COLLINS
I don't know if you saw Batman Forever, but, I've seen some kind of weird pornos that are very similar, with the mask...

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Very similar, very similar...
(laughing)
...so they, she didn't want to let me go, but I went anyway, and I didn't get the part, but it did get me a really good agent, after the audition. So, I started like that, it was such a fluke because I had never really acted before.

CARLA COLLINS
Now, like here's me with the polished demo and head shots and I'm clearly wasting my time, if I'd just get my ass down to Speakers Corner....

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
(laughing)
"Spend a looney or whatever, you know, just get down there and do it."

CARLA COLLINS
I know, where's Chris O'Donnell now to be perfectly frank.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Right.

CARLA COLLINS
And, Felicity things are going well?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
It's going good, we're trying to figure out if we're coming back next year, but, I think we are.

CARLA COLLINS
Oh, you'll come back.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I think so.

CARLA COLLINS
Now I heard bya the internet, so, you know it's biblical accuracy, that it was your idea to geT the cast boinking a little bit more, you know it wasn't really, everybody kind of straightlaced and homogenized, and you said like, "hey, it's college, let's spruce it up."

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
(throws head back and howls)
I just said, what frustrates me is it's on network television, so there's very little of the actual college life you can show, like no violence and sex, you know what I mean?

CARLA COLLINS
What college life are you speaking of, nothing like that ever happened at Western.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, exactly, but um, there's just very little we can do and J.J. Abrams, the producer started putting it in a little more, but it's hard, we lost an advertiser, a big advertiser last year because.....

CARLA COLLINS
Who, which one?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I don't know who it is, honestly, I don't know.

CARLA COLLINS
I'm going to see if we can pick them up.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah.
(laughing).

CARLA COLLINS
Now, it's more like 90210, Luke Perry ever give you any advice, like you know at one point, I was doing Mrs. Walsh, just kidding...

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
No, no, if it goes too far, the cast speaks up, we really don't want to get like that. I really don't. I really don't want to do that.

CARLA COLLINS
And, you're the thinking person.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I hope so.

CARLA COLLINS
It's a great show, great acting going on.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Thank you.

CARLA COLLINS
And, speaking of great acting, you've got some movie action.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, well there's one film I did last year called Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow and Andre Braugher. And, we're trying to see if that's going to get released. Disney deemed it a little violent, so we're trying to cut it down.

CARLA COLLINS
Disney deemed it a little violent?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Disney, Walt Disney.

CARLA COLLINS
I understand.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I'm doing this film called Wheelman.

CARLA COLLINS
Wheelman?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, it's about a driver, essentially a road movie, a getaway movie.

CARLA COLLINS
Like Steve McQueen?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Like an old Steve McQueen movie.

CARLA COLLINS
Oh, you're Steve McQueenesque.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
We could do that, I think.

CARLA COLLINS
Now where's that taking place?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Utah.

CARLA COLLINS
Your partying with the Mormons?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, yeah.

CARLA COLLINS
"I'd like you to meet my wives and kids". So, you're in for some fun.

(SCOTT SPEEDMAN laughing.)

CARLA COLLINS
Now L.A. life... Are you adapting down there? Did you join a gang or a boy band or something like that?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I'm trying to stay away from the boy bands, I'm trying to stay away from the boy bands.

CARLA COLLINS
N'Sync on your ass, "Come on Scottie".

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
They're actually friends of a friend of mine, because they grew up together. A friend of mine, Keri Russell, was in the Mickey Mouse Club with them. But no, no.

CARLA COLLINS
That's right, there is a back story. It's not Speaker's Corner, but, it is a back story.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Who else was in there? N'Sync, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera, all were in the Mickey Mouse Club with Keri.

CARLA COLLINS
And, our piano guy, Robert Scott, I didn't know if you knew that, but also.....

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Oh really. I didn't know that, oh really, that's kind of cool.

CARLA COLLINS
He doesn't like to speak of it.

(camera pans to ROBERT SCOTT, who is putting his finger to his lips and shushing).

CARLA COLLINS
Well, I'd really love to talk to you some more, so now kick back with your drink now that we know you're legal and I will be back with more Scott Speedman at Chez Carla in a moment.


[COMMERCIAL]


CARLA COLLINS
Listen, thanks for joining us at Chez Carla, hope you all come back next week, I'm going to continue talking to this tasty treat. Now, I understand you have a new toy in Los Angeles.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, it's called a dirt surfer, it's a rude....

CARLA COLLINS
A dirt surfer?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
It's a rude name, but it's actually a motorized skate board, it's kind of this enlarged skate board with a motorcycle engine on the back, it's got these hugh wheels on it that go off, and it goes about 30 miles an hour.

CARLA COLLINS
You know, Scott, I don't want to be motherly to you, but, don't you think driving in LA is dangerous enough?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, I know, I know.

CARLA COLLINS
You'd be a big old target for the drive bys, I mean where will you put your gun, where are you packing with that? But you come back to Canada, now the reason Scotts back here is because of a baby. "I just had Scott's baby", and ah, you know we don't like to say everything right at the beginning,no you're back because you're an uncle?

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Yeah, my sister had her first baby, Jamie Roy ... , actually my sister's married name, it's a 9 lb boy, so, it's pretty exciting actually.

CARLA COLLINS
That's sweet.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
I was over there yesterday and I saw it for the first time, they were all making fun of me cause I couldn't hold it, I didn't know how to hold it.

CARLA COLLINS
They're fragile.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
But, that's alright. I'll learn, I'll learn how to do it.

CARLA COLLINS
Wow, so I'm thinking like that like a lot of pressure on the rest of the family, like your uncle's coming over, "Is it the big movie star cute uncle that brings me great toys from LA?", no, it's uncle Louie, "oh, he smells like eggs"....

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
No, they've been pretty cool, they just make fun of me as much as possible, a little more than they ever used to, but you know.

CARLA COLLINS
And, your pretty tight with your family, you went to you Mom's high school?

SCOTT FOLEY
Oh man, that was......

CARLA COLLINS
Check this out.

SCOTT SPEEDMAN
Well it's actually, my Mom works at Owen Public School down at Bayview and Shepherd. I went there last year and everything was fine. I went ther to surprise her actually, I took an overnight flight and went down there. And, I showed up at 9 and just said "Hi", and, to surprise her. She didn't know I was coming in, and, it's just weird. They just kind of went nuts, and I had to take off and my Mom was like, all upset.

CARLA COLLINS
Well, I guess the kids went ballistic, I mean Max Webster came down to our school, we were pretty excited about that, I don't know what I'd do if Scott Speedman came......