Vince Vaughn: It's Oz, Bro
Q: Do you remember seeing your first Playboy?
A: Yeah, it blows your mind. It's a whole new world. But I never got into porno so much.
Q: Did you get to see the pink, too?
A: Oh, we saw the pink, bro. We went after it. We needed it in our lives.
Q: Do a lot of people want you to repeat Swingers lingo?
A: Totally. They ask you to say, "You're money" or "beautiful babies." All that.
Q: What's something you're really good at that would surprise people?
A: I'm a good gambler. The guys that can really play poker can take my money, but I'm good at blackjack and craps, and I understand the odds.
Q: Do you like to impress the ladies with your gambling?
A: I don't like the girls around me when I gamble. I can't be affectionate or talk. I got the money on my mind.
Q: You just finished shooting Clay Pigeons. Didn't it used to be called In Too Deep?
A: Yeah. I think it sounded too much like a porno movie.
Q: What's your role in_ A Cool, Dry Place_?
A: I play a young lawyer who's married with a child. My wife leaves me and I'm forced to spend more time with the kid. Then I get fired and I go to a smaller firm in Kansas and give up my ambitions to be this high-profile lawyer. Then the ex wants to be in the child's life so I'm at a crossroads where I say, "Maybe I can give the kid to the mom and go to the big city to pursue what I want."
Q: What happens in Force Majeure?
A: Three guys are vacationing in Thailand, having fun, smoking pot, meeting girls. My character flies back to America and three years later he finds out one of the guys got arrested for pot and is up for the death penalty, and it's kind of my character's fault. So now he's thinking, "Should I go defend him and put myself in jeopardy?"
Q: How many phone lines does an actor on the rise like you have?
A: You have the voice mail and then you get the Bat-phone. The Bat-phone is the phone that you know you can pick up. It's family or friends or business.
Q: Are you seeing someone now?
A: No one serious. It's not fair to them or myself to talk about it.
Q: Do you ever think about getting married?
A: Not right now, but I'd like to have kids, so yeah.
Q: What's the most typically glamorous Hollywood night you've experienced so far?
A: I don't like the glamorous nights so much. I usually leave depressed and I don't know why. Maybe it's the forced politeness. I like the local bar with money in the jukebox and a pretty girl next to me.
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Dennis Hensley interviewed Gina Gershon for the July '97 issue of Movieline.
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