Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back

Q: Are you able to psyche yourself up to do the next Batman, or is it more: "Shit, I've got to put on that costume again"?

A: I'm not excited about gluing the mask to my face again. But I'm excited to do the next one, as long as Joel Schumacher comes back.

Q: Would it be a good scenario for you if the Batman films became your Rocky or Rambo?

A: I got in a little late for that. A little franchise of films like that is always kind of nice. Harrison Ford has done a terrific job with that.

Q: Is Harrison Ford as exciting an actor as any other?

A: I think he's great. I look more towards his career than anybody else's -- I mean, I know I'm not going to be a Pacino or a De Niro. That's just not who I am.

Q: Among your peers, are there any actors you enjoy watching?

A: My peers...um...name me an actor.

Q: Christian Slater.

A: Slater? Real nice guy, I saw him in that movie with Marisa Tomei. I didn't see True Romance or Murder in the First.

Q: Leonardo DiCaprio.

A: I didn't see What Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries or Total Eclipse -- although I've heard from so many people about him.

Q: Brad Pitt.

A: I thought Legends of the Fall was great. I didn't see Seven. He's really good. As is Ethan Hawke, who was great in Dead Poet's Society. I missed Reality Bites, though I got the soundtrack. Who else?

Q: Johnny Depp.

A: The guy is awesome. He's just great. He was at the hotel we were at in Paris and I walked by him in the hall, but I don't know the guy, so I'm not going to be like, "Johnny, I'm an actor too, how're ya doing?"

Q: Entertainment Weekly wrote about you, Chris, that you "may never play the director with a fondness for angora sweaters or the moody mountain man who wrestles with bears or the athletic cop who keeps the bus from blowing up, but neither will he use dirty language and trash hotels in order to convince you that he's got feelings," What do you say to that?

A: I might use dirty language and trash hotels, but it won't be to get any kind of attention

Q: Could you have played the lead in Ed Wood, Speed or Legends of the Fall?

A: I could have. Whether or not I could have done them as well as they did them, that's a whole other thing. Now you've got me trying to analyze my career and I hate when actors start getting all serious about themselves. Now that I think about this conversation, I hope I don't sound like a philosophical moron, because that just drives me crazy.

Q: You told one interviewer that you couldn't trust too many people in show business. Still feel that way?

A: I trust people I've worked with and had good experiences with. I don't trust people who aren't up front with me, and I don't forget that. You've got to be careful.

Q: It's been written about you that, with the exception of The Three Musketeers, you haven't made a wrong or foolish move yet. Feel that way too?

A: I liked The Three Musketeers. I just didn't like my hairdo.

Q: What did you learn watching Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland?

A: It was wild, hanging with those guys. I'd never met anybody before who was close to my age and such a big movie star and had a lot of money. They had different spending habits than people I'd met before. Charlie buys antique watches like I buy tennis shoes.

Q: Did you learn any moves to make on girls from them?

A: Some of their moves were not exactly my style moves, to be very vague with you.

Q: After seeing them you said that you weren't as smooth as you thought you were. How smooth are they?

A: [Laughing] I've come to realize it helps if you're well-known. Being a movie star is a pretty good rap in itself. They were good guys. I see Charlie every once in a while at Planet Hollywood.

Q: What do you think of Sheen spending over $50,000 on prostitutes?

A: [Laughs] What am I supposed to say here? I wasn't shocked

Q: Were you shocked at all about Hugh Grant?

A: Yeah, that was shocking. I couldn't get over his mug shot, it was like something out of a movie -- it looked like he had Herb Ritts come in and set up a photo shoot: OK, you've just been busted, your family and girlfriend are going to find out, your world is over. He's got a gorgeous girlfriend, she's hot. I feel bad for the guy. He made a mistake and got crucified for it.

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