Girl Most Likely To
But she is who she is, and she’d risk a few things just to get a bit of fun in her life. “Can you give me a sec?” she said. “I’m getting a new phone from Smart, they’re coming over, and I just need to sign something.” She was positively jubilant, and I was surprised. She explained she was a techie, and said she was getting a Blackberry. Cool.
“But you do have to give yourself a break every now and then. You reach a point where you’re there, and you’re thinking, ‘I’m working, I’m working’ and you’re not enjoying anymore. . . ”
NA: C’mon, you have to answer this. I’m especially proud of this one: You go to your regular beauty spa, and Brazilian waxes aren’t available. Which do you choose: Bangladeshi or Pakistani?
AC: Hmmm . . . can I just say Persian?
NA: You can say that too. Ok, next . . . When was Michael Jackson cooler—when he was still black or after he first got a nose job?
AC: Definitely when he was still black.
NA: Favorite MJ song?
AC: “Bad.” (She hums a few bars)
“Have you guys tried ‘Rock Band’? I’m super promoting it. It’s the best game ever! You have to sing, but you also have to play the guitar . . . but you really have to get the pitch right. And the songs are nice. They have Foo Fighters, Metallica . . . it’s a really good game, surprisingly.” She says she also enjoys playing Halo, which keeps her up until four in the morning.
I tell her she’s a geek, but she qualifies it to “a tech geek.”
NA: Braveheart or Gladiator?
AC: Braveheart!
NA: Cool! Ok . . . What do you think Grimace really is?
AC: Grimace? He’s the purple guy in McDonald’s right?
NA: Yep.
AC: Errr . . . . . . . .
(Note: Nobody got the Grimace question right. Honestly, even I don’t know. This should be filed under “Unsolved Mysteries.”)
Anne tells me she loves reading, something that she picked up from her father.
“Let’s see,” she went on, “Paulo Coelho, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Have you seen The Kite Runner?”
“I have a Reader’s Digest subscription,” she says.
“Have you read Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being?” she asks me
Yes.
At this, she claps and squeals in her chair. “Don’t you just love it?”
It was a good book, but I found certain parts in it a bit weird, like the when the main character made love to the woman with the huge nose.
“Let’s see,” she went on, “Paulo Coelho, Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay it Forward), Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Have you seen The Kite Runner?”
I said yes, and told her I almost cried at the end of the movie. I really liked it, plus the kid actors blew me away.
“But did you read the book?”
No, I admit.
She tells me the book was a whole lot better and made her feel the pain all the more because of the details that were left out in the movie.
I tell her about one of my favorite book-to-movie adaptations, The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins. “Both the book and the movie are great,” I say.
Before we get off the topic, I recommended to her Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, a classic. I hope she gets it.
If not acting, then what?
“I haven’t gone to college yet because of my career,” she said, “but if ever, I do want to take up Early Education, but not here.” When I ask why, she says it’s because she just didn’t want to deal with being Anne-Curtis-the-actress while studying at uni.
I understood; all these stalkers in college, and all you want to do is get a degree.
“I’m thinking maybe Australia; I bought my mom a house there,” she says. “I might as well make the most out of it.” If ever, she plans to teach or own her own facility if she has the money.
“Can we cut?”
One of the production people was motioning to us. I tell them I’m fine, this is it.
Anne thanks me; I apologize to her again for being such an ass with the questions. Then I leave.
Now, here’s the rub: we obviously don’t know much about the real Anne Curtis but—despite almost screwing things up—I got a good glimpse at the very least. Actress, VJ, traveler, indie music lover, techie, reader, future early Ed teacher . . . All we ever think to ask someone like her are products of assumptions we have about people in the biz.
She’s all about the work though and all about living a good life. It’s sad that we rarely get to ask up front, but that’s the whole point of this article.
Now we know.
Now you know.
