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Scans of the article from Allure, June 2003 (If you would like to read the transcribed article, look below the scans..) Some of the comments that go with the pics are, er, ..odd (On Disturbing Behavior: "This movie was just horrible. I kill two people-one of them was Benjamin Bratt...") Um..WTF? lol Click scans to enlarge.
Thanks to Mandy for transcribing this for us :)
The Last Girl Scout As Katie Holmes talks animatedly about her increasingly demanding career, I silently plan our upcoming marriage. Oh, sure, I hear you saying, you're married already, she's got Chris Klein, and besides, you're both heterosexual and female. Fueled by two margaritas, I do not let myself get bogged down in petty details. I can see her, apple-cheeked and dewy in her simple but exquisite Vera Wang gown. We would honeymoon in the Galapagos, because she's long and agile and would look excellent clambering over rock faces in khaki shorts. In our chic-yet-cozy home, we would rescue stray dogs because she seems to have a soft heart and a kind word for animals. Our children would be brilliant, musical, and gangly. I want to bring her home to meet my parents. But then, who doesn't? Everyone has encountered one Katie Holmes in her life: the smart and effortlessly sexy girl with a conscience who does not want to alienate the other girls or give false hope to the boys. At our meeting over cocktails and snacks at the W Hotel in New York City, Holmes talks about her roles in two new films coming out this year: Pieces of April, an indie comedy/drama also starring Oliver Platt and Patricia Clarkson, and a remake of the British television classic The Singing Detective with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. She wears tight jeans and a beige cashmere turtleneck sweater with trailing slit sleeves.--the kind that looks adorable and poetic if you're five nine and skinny, and crazy and mutilated if you're not. Her hair, which is naturally wavy--"but not in a good way," she says--is blow-dried straight. She looks more like a 17-year-old high school class president than a 24-year-old woman--something that, she says, "I think I'll appreciate more in about ten years," but still annoys her right now. Of course it is this Everygirl quality--or rather the Very-few-girl quality--that has allowed her to connect with audiences in a way most of her peers can't match. As cute, arch Joey in Dawson's Creek, she was a believable as any plucky soap opera teen can be, given a lifetime of tragedy. The role, which just ended in May after five years, made her the cupcake of every American teenage boy with taste and the skeevy fantasy of half the men in the throes of midlife crisis. As she downs Pinot Grigio, fried artichokes, and fries--a hummingbird metabolism is a beautiful thing to behold--she contemplates that obsession-worthy topic of high school popularity. Never would she admit to being particularly sought after: Like most unequivocal beauties who deflect envy, she gives the apologetic I-was-shy-and-awkward tale of teenage angst. Growing up in Toledo, Holmes "was part of the musical crowd"--she sang and took dancing lessons--"but I kind of floated around," she says, struggling to keep her sleeves out of the mayonnaise dip, "My lunch table consisted of some partyers, die-hard athletes, brains, the sewing girls." (Apparently, "sewing girl" is Midwestern for "fashionista") Perhaps afraid of sounding a little too good to be true, Holmes struggles to find tales of her own bad-ass self. But when asked to elaborate, Holmes just ends up sounding like the kid who plays clarinet in band, talking about how everyone got crazy at music camp. "My friends from high school and I were reminiscing the other night, how we were all in London when we were 19, and we were so lucky we made it home. I can't believe our parents let us go, One night we were trying to get into clubs, and we couldn't get in anyway--we used up all our money trying to get to any place that would let us in--and we had to just keep on walking to get home." I'm waiting for some debaunched ending to this story: pictures of Holmes sprawled on the sidewalk, doing her Courtney Love imitation on the front page of the Daily Mail; a night spent in the company of Mick and Keith. Nothing there. End of story. But the good girl offscreen has actually had her share of racy, attention-grabbing roles in front of the camera. She's been in some very good movies (as Tobey Maguire's debutante object of lust in The Ice Storm and Michael Douglas' student seductress in Wonder Boys) and some very bad ones (Of Disturbing Behavior, the 1998 teen sco-fi epic that endeared itself to me by portraying jocks as lobotomized zombies, the normally discreet Holmes couldn't help but blurt out, "Nobody needs to see this.") She is the most memorable thing about The Gift (which also stars Cate Blanchett, Greg Kinnear, and Keanu Reeves), and only partly because she gets to deliver the movie's piovotal speech screaming her lungs out, topless, "I had a lot of fun because I got to play a bad girl with no redeeming qualities," Holmes says. "Some people felt that having my shirt off was gratuitous, but in my heart I didn't think it was. I think it revealed her character more." Now Holmes is packing up her town house in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Dawson's Creek filmed (one of the trickier jobs: labeling her hundred-odd pairs of shoes and stowing them neatly in the Target storage crates her mother told her to buy), and heading to Los Angeles. This is a crucial moment in the life of any young actress. With a hit television show ending, she can find herself stuck hopelessly in the Cute Zone or she can make that leap toward cinematic womanhood.(The teen-queen trajectory: Either you become Shannen Doherty or you graduate to Christina Applegate.) "There are days when I'm nonchalant and days when I'm freaking out," she says. "I feel like if I just keep working hard, I'll get some job," she adds, managing somehow to make her modesty sound sincere. The first test of Holmes's box-office power will come when Pieces of April debuts in September. Last year, bad reviews for Abandon, a psychological thriller that was Holmes's first star vehicle, sunk the film at the box office. But Pieces of April made by director Peter Hedges (who wrote the novel and the screenplay What's Eating Gilbert Grape and cowrote the screenplay for About A Boy) for a paltry $150,000 was a crowd pleaser at the Sundance Film Festival, Holmes plays a 21-year-old East Village rebel who has recklessly volunteered to hold the family Thanksgiving dinner in her tiny, walk-up apartment--what could be a final Thanksgiving , as her mother is dying of cancer. Her parents converge on her, and she finds that nothing--nothing--is going to go smoothly. There were rumors that the movie had special meaning to Holmes, since her own mother had battled a life-threatening illness. Holmes, who does not want to discuss the details, will only say softly, "Well, a lot of women and families have gone through this. And I thought this film would do a lot of women and families justice, and it was beautiful, the way the movie handled it." Patricia Clarkson, who plays Holmes's mother in the film, says, "I absolutely think she's fantastic. There's an innocence and a real sweetness to her that often disappears in people who've had this kind of early success. She's shy and quiet, but at the same time she can be very funny and quite witty and goofy. And onscreen she has a quiet sexuality, a subletly to her that's surprising--there's so much garishness out here." As Sam Raimi, who directed her in The Gift, says, "Maybe I'm biased, but Katie is a movie star." The movie star in training grew up solidly upper middle class, the youngest of five children. "My mom says we were all 'oopses,' but I think I was a big 'oops,'" says Holmes, whose next-eldest sibling is six years older. Her father was a sucessful attorney specializing in divorce. "I always joke that my happy childhood was the result of other people's unhappiness." As the youngest, she got to be the "cute one" who didn't have to clean the bathroom. She worried that she'd never make the family Wall of Fame--a room in the basement where Holmes's parents kept all their kids' trophies and clippings. Now, the family room is a Katie shrine. "They have every movie poster, every magazine I've ever been on the cover of," she says. Holmes does have one less-than-glowing memory of her childhood: recurrent cold sores. Not the little kind on the lip, but the large, festering blisters than sometimes would invade her throat and even her eyes. "I'd get them everywhere--I'd just walk around eating ice cream." Even today, she says, "If I break out in a million zits I'm so excited it's not a cold sore." Growing up, Holmes danced and sang her way through Notre Dame Academy, a Catholic girls' school her mother had attended. Her journey from playing Lola in her high school production of Damn Yankees to starring on a seminal teenage-angst television drama was a shockingly short one. Holmes's mother had enrolled her daughter in modeling and acting classes that netted Holmes an agent--much to the consternation of her father, who had his straight-A daughter slated to be the family doctor. Mother and daughter then headed to Los Angeles her junior year of high school for pilot seasons. "Sure, there's all this rejection," Holmes recalls, "but it was wonderful, just to have your mom giving you that inital confidence to say, 'OK, that's done, we're not going to think about it anymore; where are we going next?' She didn't have any experience with this world, but that's just who she is." It was during her senior year that Holmes auditioned for Dawson's Creek (on videotape--she decided that year she didn't want to miss any performances of her senior class musical) and won her first movie role, as the bored rich girl in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. Suddenly, after the movie's release, there were premieres, paparazzi, couture gowns being FedExed. "And it was so good to have my mother there, telling me, 'This is great, but it doesn't make you bigger than life." Holmes has been able to pay back her mother's patience and good sense in the past few years. When she was starring as the precocious student trying to seduce her professor, played by Michael Douglas, in Wonder Boys, she made sure her mother visited the set. "Michael was soooo nice to my mother," she recalls. "I gave my dad a really hard time about it." In her off time, Holmes is more interior and quiet: An aficionado of yoga videos and running, she's recently discovered the pleasures of massage--"maybe because I'm lonely! My boyfriend's in London working on a play." That boyfriend would be Chris Klein, who, like Holmes has managed to be a standout in several films--most notably Election and American Pie. Like Holmes, onscreen, he radiates an ineffable sweetness. They have been together over three years and have similar Catholic, Midwestern upbringings. "We're both guilt-stricken people," Holmes explains. "We'll be very successful in life because we have so much guilt--it's a great motivator." While approving heartily of Holmes's life of guilt, I nevertheless feel compelled to turn into mymother, offering an entirely gratuitous lecture to a stranger on a subject I know nothing about. "Two-actor families do not have a good track record!" I hear myself proclaiming through a haze of tequila, "I know," she says in a small voice, "but.....he's a special one. I can't help it." I am underterred. "Someone with a more stable career will be there for you! Or maybe he'll be able to follow you to your shoots when necessary." I guess I am offended by the possibility that my Katie is lonely. Even though she was joking. Even though I think I'm scaring her. Before allowing her to back slowly out of the room, I have to know: Marriage and children? Sooner, or later? "Well," she says, cocking one eyebrow, "I guess it depends on if and when I'm asked." Let's go, Chris. This is a girl---very soon a woman--who's going places. The clock is ticking. --------------------------------- Page 22 Contributors: Michael Thompson: ".....When he photographed Katie Holmes for "The Last Girl Scout," the star left her girlhood behind---and gave in to a smoldering side. "Dramatic eyes gave Katie a more sensuous look, and being an actress, she really got into that role." Page 36
Cover Look Who? Katie Holmes What? Allure's June cover, shot by Michael Thompson When? Holmes wrapped up the February 25 shoot just hours before flying home to Wilmington, North Carolina, to film an episode of Dawson's Creek Where? The Ohio-born beauty arrived at Chelsea's Lux Studios at 8:30 a.m.--30 minutes before her call time--and waited patiently with her childhood best friend, Meghann Birie. Why? While starring as Dawson's Creek's smart and sensitive Joey Potter over the past five years, 24-year-old Holmes has also landed roles in seven films and worked with directors Ang Lee and Sam Raimi. This fall she'll appear in The Singing Detective--a dark musical comedy with Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson-and will play the lead role in Pieces of April. Night Moves Makeup artist Diane Kendal gaves Holmes's fresh image a run for its money by tracing the actress' upper and lower lids with a black eyeliner, then smudging a brown shadow above and below the lashes. The pink blush and lipstick were an innocent contrast. Shine On: For hair that looked sleek and not slick, stylist Gavin Harwin blew Holmes' hair straight, ran a flatiron over it, and sprayed on a shine tonic. Going Steady: During breaks, the star happily flipped through pictures from an evening with fellow actor and date of three years Chris Klein. Pajama Party: Holmes and Birie have been friends since their slumber-party days, so it was only fitting that they capped off the weekend with a trip to the lingerie shop Only Hearts. "We went a little crazy," admitted Birie. Then there are images of Katie at the photo shoot with these captions next to the pictures... Kendal blends tinted moisturizer onto the actress's cheeks. Holmes with Harwin and Cavaco, in the Behnaz Sarafpour dress that inspired her ballerina bun. Harwin smoothes errant strands with styling creme Between takes, the actress ate breakfast---fresh orange juice and a bagel with cream cheese--and emailed friends on her Blackberry. For her return trip to Wilmington, North Carolina: Holmes's Burberry sunglasses and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White.
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