MAXIM – March, 2005
LOVE OF THE GAME
We take on In The Game’s Jennifer Love Hewitt. It’s time to play (we’ll hit the showers soon enough)
By Anna David
Jennifer Love Hewitt first got our attention on Party of Five as the most adorable TV adoptee ever (sorry, Emmanuel Lewis) and returns to the networks with the ABC sitcom In the Game. Jennifer plays Riley Reed, a sports reporter struggling to do her job while raising a child as a single mother. MILF-land, you have a new queen.
After a run of films aimed at decidedly younger audiences (it turns out Garfield was a children’s movie!), Jennifer is determined to make certain people understand that she has matured. “I think there are three ways of making people see you as an adult for the first time,” she declares. “You either play a mom, do a dark and edgy film, or take off all your clothes and say, ‘I am woman, hear me roar.’”
And now for the roaring.
Were you already a SportsCenter fanatic, watching football with the guys, or is this all uncharted territory for you? I’m not a sports-minded person. My character is basically my mom, who sits and watches the Super Bowl and bawls her eyes out if her favorite team loses. I do love sports fans; the passion they have is incredible. It’s such a deeper thing than we have in Hollywood with celebrities and their fans. But I don’t get it.
One thing you are passionate about is Audrey Hepburn. You’re slated to star inWhy Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn? even though you already were Audrey in a TV movie. What’s with the fixation? My mom showed me one of her movies when I was really young, and I remember never feeling the same way about movie stars. I think she truly embodied what we all want to be.
Did you really have to tape down your endowment to play her? I did. She was not so boobalicious, and I’ve been blessed from an early age — since I was 11.
We’ve been aware of them since I Know What You Did Last Summer. I know. Everybody thought I had a boob job, which is hilarious. Party of Five was a follow-up toBeverly Hills 90210, and the producers very specifically wanted us to represent the girls that didn’t dress up like the girls on 90210. Then I went and did I Know What You Did Last Summer and my top got smaller and smaller during the movie, so everybody thought I got surgery for my horror movie debut.
Is it weird to have people so obsessed with your breasts? I’m most fascinated with the Jennifer Love Hewitt breast site, where people speak about what outfits they look best in. It’s fantastic. I think it’s the funniest thing ever, and I love that there are people who spend their time doing it. They take a picture and then they give suggestions – like when I’m in corsets, they’re better because they’re lifted or separated or whatever – and they carry on conversations and debates.
