Alicia Silverstone: The Crown Princess of Young Hollywood

So she passed up Spelling, but have there been any movie roles which she tried for but missed out? "I would have loved to have been in Little Women," she admits, "and they told me they would have loved me, but my age was off. Actually, I'm happy I didn't get it because I heard that they had a miserable time shooting it. On My Father, The Hero, I didn't get it because I was a little bit heavy compared with the girl who did get it, but that was a blessing because the girl runs around in a bathing suit throughout the whole thing. It was the worst movie I've ever seen. And the girl was really bad."

Starlets cannot live by work alone, so I ask about her romantic life. "To be in a relationship with a man is difficult," explains Silverstone. "Even with Moize." Moize Chabbouh is the 28-year-old French hairdresser with whom Silverstone has been close since she relocated to Hollywood from San Francisco some three years ago. Given her feelings about men and sex, what's the deal with the two of them? "I'm nobody's trophy, that's for sure." she asserts, easing into the issue. "Right from the beginning, I was a very good girl. I met him when I was 15 and we didn't kiss until six months after we met. I think it would be awful to sleep around, especially with people you weren't in love with, because I don't think sex is for anything but someone with whom you're completely in love. I know a lot of 30-year-old women who need to have sex and say, 'I just wanna get laid.' I'm like. 'Get over that.'"

At some point Silverstone and Chabbouh became involved enough for Silverstone to accept a role in a French-made film--_Le Nouveau Monde_, the new movie from Alain Corneau, the director of the art-house favorite, Tons lea Matins du Monde--so she could travel to France and meet her sweetie's family. "I play the pretty blonde girl, which is boring," she says of the movie, "but I wanted to go to France because Moize hadn't seen his family in eight years," How'd she like France? "I hate Parisians, they are so evil, I want to go back there with a gun and shoot every one of them. Their city is so beautiful but the Parisians are so mean and have such attitudes. But it was worth it because we got to spend time with Moize's family. They don't have any money, but they're the richest family I've ever met."

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