Scheana Marie is certainly milking whatever she can out of the fact that she was Eddie Cibrian’s mistress, now claiming he cheated on LeAnn Rimes with her as well. The stunning waitress, who slept with Eddie Cibrian while he was married to Brandi Glanville, says her “other woman” status continued while we was with LeAnn. Scheana Marie , 27, claims that the hunky actor contacted her to met up for drinks soon after he split with Glanville – and started dating Rimes – in 2009. The Vanderpump Rules star, who was confronted by Brandi on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills this week, says she had no idea he was seeing someone else. “As months go by, Eddie gets separated. He then contacts me to go out for drinks,” Scheana says. “I believed he was separated, so I was happy to go out with him.” “But shortly into trying to hang out with him I find out about LeAnn, and I felt like such an idiot!” Scheana recalls the moment she first met Eddie and says she was instantly smitten. But then, things quickly turned sour after her mom discovered he was a married man. Marie, who’s also been linked to John Mayer, recalls: “When a really good-looking guy with big dimples wants to take you out for drinks, your first question isn’t ‘are you married because you don’t have a ring on your finger?’” “We hung out, it was quite casual and about six months in my mom saw an article and was like, ‘that Eddie guy you are dating, is his last name Cibrian and is he on Third Watch? ‘” “I was like, ‘Yeah, why?’ She told me he and his wife are expecting their second child!” A distraught Scheana Marine says she got in touch with Eddie to find out the truth, and Brandi Glanville ‘s then-husband admitted wrong-doing via text. “He was like, ‘I’m so sorry I lied to you.’ He then switched gears, saying, ‘by the way, are you still doing the acting thing? I have a project I’m funding.'” “‘There’s a role for you that would be great.’” Smooth operator, that Eddie Cibrian. Needless to say, Scheana and Eddie haven’t spoken in years, but with her now appearing on Vanderpump Rules on Bravo, interest in their affair has resurfaced. Glanville, Vanderpump’s friend, has been a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fixture, and Scheana works at Lisa’s restaurant … it’s a small world people. In Monday’s episode, Scheana came face-to-face with Brandi. During the fiery scene, Glanville labeled Scheana a “hooker” and a “star f*%ker,” which the ambitious beauty feels could harm her reputation. Or extend her 15 minutes of fame. Pros and cons. Eddie’s ladies: Who’d rather … And the Winner is? Brandi Glanville Click Here To Vote for Brandi Scheana Marie Click Here To Vote for Scheana LeAnn Rimes Click Here To Vote for LeAnn Scheana Marie or LeAnn Rimes or Brandi Glanville: Which of Eddie Cibrian’s wives/mistresses/lovers would you rather … you know? View Poll »
Trey Songz has already written a song about fear — literally . His track “Don’t Be Scared” soothes a hot chick who’s afraid of her carnal desire for some sweet, sweet loving. Of course, calming a girl into bed is easier than calming a girl while you’re both running from a blood-lusted maniac. But Texas Chainsaw 3D director John Luessenhop knew Trey Songz could handle the challenge when he saw the thrice Grammy-nominated R&B singer float down from the ceiling during the BET Awards and seduce Solange Knowles and the crowd; the next day, Luessenhop called his agent and asked if he could send him the script for the horror sequel — if Songz could control a stage, maybe he could command a screen. And so Trey Songz (AKA “Mr. Steal Yo Girl” as he calls himself in his club banger “Bottoms Up,” AKA Tremaine ‘Trey Songz’ Neverson) stumbled into his unlikely starring debut in a slasher flick playing the boyfriend of Leatherface’s cousin, a brunette goth named Heather (Alexandra Daddario). Will Songz’ fans still swoon over his six-pack abs when they’re slicked with blood? Maybe — although on YouTube, commenters are threatening to storm out of the theater if he doesn’t survive. (We won’t spoil anything, but, um, have they ever seen a horror movie before?) Not only is Texas Chainsaw 3D a first for Songz, Songz is a first for the Texas Chainsaw series: Its first MTV fixture-turned-cast member, its first black star, and the first male love interest to cross the color lines. Plus, it’s the first time in film history where someone dies because a Trey Songz jam on the stereo muffles their screams. We ask Songz about breaking ground in Hollywood — and if R. Kelly should follow in his footsteps. When you told your friends you were the first major black character in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, did they immediately say, “You die, right?” Trey Songz: They wanted to know if I’d die in the credits! In the first ten minutes. It ain’t even a question if I died — it’s how quick. “How fast will it happen?” is what they wanted to know. On IMDb, the first three plot keywords for Texas Chainsaw 3D are: “interracial romance,” “pretty girl,” “interracial kiss.” What’s that about? It’s an obvious thing that’s still very present in this world. In Texas Chainsaw — a huge franchise that started in the ’70s that’s been remade four times, five times, however many times — there’s never been a relationship like this. And although it’s very present in here, I think it’s still a shock to some people that it’s so real. People are starting to erase the color lines. Which is awesome. It definitely is. In your songs, you have this reputation as being a player. I was curious to see if Ryan would be this sweet boyfriend who would change your image — but it turns out Ryan isn’t the best at monogamy. I think Ryan wants to be a good guy. He wants to be there for his girlfriend. You know, they’re young kids having a good time, and he’s messed up a time here or there. Heather, the girl who Alex [Daddario] plays, is kind of a mystery herself. She doesn’t know much about her past, and meanwhile her friend is going behind her back with Ryan and saying, “Hey, I was drunk, I didn’t know better — but let’s do it one more time.” Singing seems like it would be good preparation for acting. You learn that it’s not just what the line is, but how you say it. Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines. I remember Live at the London Palladium , Marvin Gaye is singing this song about love and he’s talking about how a man ain’t supposed to cry. And he’s going, “Oooohhoooh! Ohhhoooohh!” singing and crying at the same time. That was a good learning tool. Memorizing lines, too. I memorize my own words — I write my songs without writing the lyrics down most of the time, and that’s great practice. There’s a great scene in the movie where one of your friends is in the next room screaming for help, and you can’t hear him because you’ve got the stereo cranked up and playing, uh, one of your own songs. Rip in the space/time continuum? “I’m only here for the ladies and the drinks” — I’m going crazy. That’s funny. The beauty of that is this being my first film, a lot of people will relate to this as me being Trey Songz versus me being Ryan throughout the bulk of it. To those people that aren’t really within my world of music, it’ll be a good moment for them to tie that together as well. At the same time, you know, this is Trey Songz in this movie and this is Trey Songz’ song — if my fans go crazy, too, I’ll appreciate that. You’re already used to have cameras on you on tour and when you’re shooting videos. Do those same cameras feel different when you’re on a movie set? It’s a bit different, but I’d say having directed some of my videos, having shot I don’t know how many videos, and being in short movies sometimes or having very small roles in films, I have been prepared well. Most of the time I’m not speaking in these videos, but that’s probably about the only difference. You’ve said you were a shy child. Are you now used to attention? I wasn’t really ever that shy. That’s some misquoted s–t. I was the kind of kid who loved singing, I loved rapping, I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I’d seen. That’s why I say wherever I go, all around the world, it don’t matter where you’re from, or what you’ve got going on, or who’s made it in what profession. You can do whatever it is you plan to do if you really stay focused. Several of the people you’ve worked with musically are making their own moves towards acting. I’m going to say a couple names — tell me what kind of movie you think would be perfect for them as their big break. Cool. Okay: Soulja Boy. A movie like Roll Bounce . Nicki Minaj . I think she could play anything. She’s a character within herself. Last one: R. Kelly. He’s always wanted to act. I don’t really know that about him, but if you listen to his songs, albums after albums after albums, they’re stories. He writes movies in his songs. He’s on Trapped in the Closet , like, 30 by now. I think he’d be good at it, actually. He could play any kind of role. He could play anything from a preacher to a villain. Which he kind of does in Trapped in the Closet . You wrote your joking response song “Out of the Closet” back when you were rivals. Now that you’ve made peace, when you heard he was making more chapters, did you want to get involved? That fact that he’s able to tell a story through music that’s so profound and deep — and with great vocals and great production — is amazing. That’s the end-all, be-all of it. Texas Chainsaw 3D is in theaters Friday. Amy Nicholson is a critic, playwright and editor. Her interests include hot dogs, standard poodles, Bruce Willis, and comedies about the utter futility of existence. Follow her on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Kudos to the kids for telling the “The Donald” to have a seat. Via NYDailyNews reports : Donald Trump’s hatred of Barack Obama allegedly led his three eldest kids to do an Obama-vention before the election. Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka discussed telling their dad to calm down, then decided collectively to approach Trump (below) and ask him to turn it down a notch with the presidential bashing. “The three of them met and went to see their dad in his Fifth Ave. office. They showed a lot of respect, but told him he’s worked too long and too hard to build up the reputation he has. They understand completely he’s always been outspoken and that he likes attention, but this is too much,” says a source who knew about the mid-October meeting. Trump’s rep denies any such meeting ever took place. What began with Trump’s public demand for Obama’s birth certificate during earlier stages of the election cycle has grown into a one-man war against the President, with The Donald blasting Obama’s reelection as a “disgusting injustice” on Twitter. “The world is laughing at us,” the billionaire tweeted. The explosive Twitter missive, like many of his other micro-rants, is difficult to find, because Trump later deletes many of his tirades — once he’s let off steam. Prior to Obama’s win, Trump also demanded Obama release his college records and passport application in return for a $5 million donation to the charity of his choice. As for Obama as a target, the “kids said they know it’s not helping,” says the source. “They told him you can’t throw this all away on this nonsense.” Since the kids are the future of Trump’s empire, the insider adds, they are also worried for themselves. “They want their dad to get respect and then the whole family does well,” the source says. Trump’s rep called the story “completely untrue,” telling us that Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka love his use of “free speech” and would never try to rein in their father. “They would never ever do that. It never happened. It’s simply untrue,” the rep stressed. Pure comedy! Regardless of what the rep says we hope this one is true. Dude is a major annoyance. WENN
Kevin Clash says he is gay and has never tried to hide that, and indeed was involved a relationship with the younger man accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior. The voice of Sesame Street’s beloved Elmo says the accuser was over 18, however, not underage as he has alleged. Clash took a leave of absence Monday. Kevin Clash , who’s performed as Elmo for 27 years, is 52. He admits he had “a relationship with the [now 23-year-old] accuser,” but not an illegal one. “It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to characterize it as something other than what it was,” he said in a statement. “I am taking a break from Sesame Workshop to deal with this false, defamatory allegation.” Clash also confirmed he is “a gay man” and has “never been ashamed or tried to hide it, but felt [ my relationship with the accuser ] was a personal and private matter.” Sesame Workshop backs up Clash on one count, saying that after a “thorough investigation” they “found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated.” Still, the family-oriented organization found that Kevin Clash “exercised poor judgment and violated company policy regarding Internet usage and he was disciplined.” The Workshop added that Clash “insists that the allegation of underage conduct is false and defamatory and he is taking actions to protect his reputation.” As for why he was disciplined by his employer, an email Clash wrote to his accuser reads, “I’m sorry I keep talking about sex with you, its driving me insane.” The puppeteer adds, “I want you to know that I love you and I will never hurt you. I’m here to protect you and make sure your dreams come true.” “I’ll have my assistant book a ticket for you to come to NY and we can talk about this in person.” To clarify, the email was written well after the accuser turned 18 ; the allegation made by the accuser is that the two were intimate before he was 18 . Clash denies any wrongdoing , while admitting a consensual relationship .
Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo are working on a duet together. The kind whose lyrics are highlighted by two special words: I do. Asked about the possibility of marrying her R&B singing boyfriend, the former American Idol champion told Us Weekly on Wednesday that “it’s not a conversation we’re scared about.” Sparks lost friend/mentor Whitney Houston last year and Derulo broke his neck while practicing for a tour. As a result of these experiences, Sparks adds that “you really see the people you love and you go, ‘I don’t want to lose you.'” So it’s safe to say Jordin will be happy when the biggest question of them is someday popped by Jason? Oh yes: “It’s not happening yet, but I hope so!”
Naomi Riches says Casey Anthony wants her dead. She also wants $3 billion for her troubles. The Pennsylvania woman sued Casey Anthony for $3 billion, according to reports, claiming the accused child murderer is “an Illuminati actress” who made threats to kill her and who caused her “severe psychological damage.” She also claims Casey is “in cahoots” with Nancy Grace and the U.S. government. The lawsuit says ” Casey Anthony called my house August 2011 and told me that my life was being exploited and that I was a hated nation wife.” “She told me she would kill me just as they did Peggy Hettrick in 1987. She let me know that my left eye would be stabbed out as a part of the Illuminati symbolism .” “She told me that the government was going to find a way to tap my pipes and poison my water supply. I was terrified to shower and drink water for months.” “I had to spend $600.00 on bottled water.” Rough. On October 10, Judge David Baker reportedly dismissed the lawsuit because “the fantastic allegations do not meet the plausibility standard.” This is not the first lawsuit that Anthony has been slapped with. In 2008, Zenaida Gonzalez filed a defamation suit against her in Orange County, Fla. According to a 2011 report, Gonzalez claims that Anthony ruined her reputation by falsely accusing her of kidnapping 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. After Caylee disappeared in 2008, Anthony told police that a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez – a.k.a. Zanny the Nanny – had kidnapped the toddler. During her murder trial, Anthony’s attorney told jurors that the babysitter story was totally made up. Anthony was acquitted of killing her daughter last year.
Hey Chicago! Got any plans this weekend? Well, now you do, because tonight, September 21 , and tomorrow night, September 22 at midnight , we’d like to cordially invite you to a screening of the unsung X-rated classic The Telephone Book (1971) co-presented by Mr.Skin! The Telephone Book stars Sarah Kennedy , a dead ringer for a young Goldie Hawn who you may remember as a hooker hawking her wares alongside Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) in The Working Girls (1973). Sarah plays Alice, a sexually curious young woman with pornographic wallpaper in her apartment who becomes obsessed with John Smith ( Norman Rose ), the “world’s greatest obscene phone caller.” After gushing to her best friend ( Jill Clayburgh in her screen debut) that the call was a “work of art”, Alice sets out to find this master of obscenity on an erotic journey across New York City. Her only clue? ” I’M IN THE BOOK ,” he tells her. ” I’LL BE WAITING. TRY AND FIND ME .” Disowned by distributor Joe Levine (who had built his reputation bringing racy art-house fare like 1963’s Contempt to America), The Telephone Book went virtually unseen for 38 years before a 2009 screening at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre exposed it to a whole nude generation. Playing like the bastard child of Russ Meyer and Jean-Luc Godard and a major influence on Bernardo Bertolucci ‘s Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Telephone Book is a fascinating look into the taboo-busting world of early ’70s indie film that’s just begging to be re-discovered. So pick up the phone and join us and producer Merv Bloch (appearing in person) this weekend at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre — you’ll be glad you did. See the original trailer for The Telephone Book after the jump!
Also in Wednesday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, Willie Nelson throws support behind the Weinstein Company’s Lawless , and production on Iron Man 3 is suspended after Robert Downey Jr. injures his ankle. NY Film Festival Unveils Line-up The Main Slate line-up for the 50th New York Film Festival will be comprised of 32 movies, including Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson , which stars Bill Murray as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha , a comedy he wrote with actress Greta Gerwig about an aspiring dancer in New York City; and Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion , with Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams. The 1960s era rock ‘n’ roll film Not Fade Away , by The Sopranos creator David Chase will also premiere as the festival’s centerpiece. For the complete list, check out the NYFF website. NY Times Columnist Booed By Pattinson Fans At Cosmopolis Q&A New York Times reporter and columnist David Carr incurred the wrath of RPatz fans at a Times Talks Q&A session when he asked the British actor, “So, if you and Kristen have trouble, it’s like Charles and Di having trouble?” The New York Daily News reports. Willie Nelson Down with Lawless The Weinstein Company announced that country-music star Willie Nelson is lending his support to the movie distributor’s gangster bootlegger picture Lawless. Nelson performs the previously unreleased “Midnight Run” on the movie’s soundtrack and will appear at a special screening of the film on Aug. 25 at the Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas. Lawless , which stars Tom Hardy , Jessica Chastain and Shia LaBeouf is based on a true story about the bootlegging Bondurant brothers. Avengers Assemble! In 2015, That Is Marvel’s Avengers 2 has an official release date of May 1, 2015. Joss Whedon is set to direct and write the sequel, which will follow Iron Man 3 , Thor 2 , Captain America 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy . Deadline reports. Speaking of Iron Man 3, Production Delayed After Downey Injures Ankle Production was suspended briefly on the set of Iron Man 3 when the film’s leading man Robert Downey Jr. injured his ankle. Deadline reports . Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
In what may be one of the most inspired cross-promotion deals of the year, Deadline reports that Warner Bros. and WWE Studios will team up to produce a Scooby-Doo animated feature in which the Mystery Inc. team investigates strange goings-on at Wrestlemania. (Now, that’s a loaded premise.) WWE personalities Triple H, John Cena, Kane , The Miz and WWE CEO Vince McMahon will be among those lending their voices to the production, and it occurred to me that not only will their cartoonish on-air personalities lend themselves well to animation,. but that a number of the classic Scooby-Doo villains would make memorable WWE Wrestlers. Tell me that the Phantom Puppeteer was not a proto-Undertaker, or that Big Show and the Wax Phantom are not brothers from another mother. With that in mind, I invite you Scooby lovers out there to choose which classic Scooby-Doo,Where Are You! villain below would make the best WWE Wrestler. If you’re one of those meddling-kid types who thinks the best choice is not on the list, leave him or her in the comments section. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Appearances can be deceiving, and as audiences learn in Friday’s testosterone-fueled sequel The Expendables 2 , even Dolph Lundgren ‘s volatile Gunnar Jensen has a few surprising secrets to share. Such as: In addition to being a habitual alcoholic and reformed-but-unpredictable member of the squad, Gunnar’s revealed to be a chemical engineering savant and former Fulbright scholar — elements cheekily borrowed from Lundgren’s real life. Long before the veteran of Rocky IV , Red Scorpion , Universal Soldier and, yes, Masters of the Universe earned his reputation as an imposing fixture in the ’80s and ’90s action realm, Lundgren was a decorated student who followed his economist-engineer father into the sciences and earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering. A chance meeting with singer Grace Jones sparked his Hollywood aspirations; shortly after making his debut in A View To A Kill , 1985’s Rocky IV and the memorable Russian boxer Ivan Drago marked Lundgren’s big break, catapulting him to fame alongside fellow icons stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (who team up to defeat the dastardly Jean-Claude Van Damme in Expendables 2 ). As the golden age of the beefy, brawny action star waned, however, Lundgren turned increasingly to direct-to-DVD fare, but these days Lundgren is content with how things turned out: “I got married, had two kids, brought them up in Europe, got divorced, came back here again, and the kids are okay — they didn’t become victims of Hollywood or anything, so that feels good too.” Later this year the 54-year-old actor (who also writes, produces, and directs) will follow Expendables 2 with another high profile return to his roots, of sorts, in the 3-D sequel Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning . And while the bulk of his upcoming slate remains firmly in action territory, Lundgren’s turn in Jonas Akerlund’s indie Small Apartments marks another surprise move from the erstwhile Ivan Drago. Read on as Lundgren discusses his evolving image, how art imitates life in The Expendables 2 , his mixed feelings about notorious bomb Masters of the Universe (and its forthcoming live-action remake), and why he left a career in science behind for acting in the first place. In this sequel we learn that Gunnar is a oneime Fullbright scholar and has an advanced degree in chemical engineering, as you do in real life. When Sly first suggested writing elements of your life and background into Expendables 2 , what was your reaction? I laughed, you know, I thought it was funny. Only Stallone could think of stuff like that! I mean, I couldn’t have thought of it. I would have thought, “Nah, that’s too on the nose.” I would have thought of something fictitious, but he’s clever because he knows that people are interested in that, ‘cause he’s probably heard people ask me in press conferences, “Well, aren’t you like a chemical engineer or something?” So he brought that into the movie. How did people first react when they found out about your scholarly background? Did it take a while for people to realize it? It’s still not out there. It’ll come out a little bit with this film. But you know, when you do cinema it’s such a strong medium, it overshadows your real personality. If you play a very nice guy, lover, hero on screen but you’re an asshole in real life, it takes a long time for that to overshadow your screen persona; it maybe never will. In my case it may be a bit of the opposite — I play this brutal kind of one-dimensional, two-dimensional character so if you have other things in your real life it’s gonna take a while [to come out]. It’s just happened very quickly the last couple years that people are starting to catch on to it. Thanks to the internet. The internet, people read up on it. It’s such a hard climate now. Very few people would have time in their lives [to study] and have to go for acting straight away that to spend seven, eight years in academia would be a waste. You have one of those legendary Hollywood discovery stories. Looking back, do you feel like you sort of fell into acting? Fell into acting, well I did. I acted when I was younger but then my dad was an engineer so I started doing engineering and then I kind of fell back into it. I think a lot of it was because I had unresolved issues from when I was a kid and I wanted to be in something where you can emote, rather than just shaking test tubes and looking at dials. Not so much emoting in the sciences, is there? Not so much emoting in science, none. [Laughs] Just discussion, but it’s fun. I miss a little bit of it when you’re discussing intellectual matters. I don’t suppose there was much of that happening on this set? Not that much, but if you’re directing — I directed smaller movies — it’s a bit more like that, because you’re talking to the technical people. You’re talking to the composer and the editor and you have to be multitasking a little more. Roger Ebert once described your Universal Soldier character as a thankless kind of role for an actor. Ivan Drago, on the other hand, might have been one of your best. What do you think? I think Ivan Drago was a great character because he was a victim. I think that of all those characters I did earlier were kind of brutal and didn’t say anything, but [Ivan] was kind of the best because he was very charismatic and people cared about him. If you take, for instance, Clubber Lang in Rocky III , it was interesting but you have no sympathy for him. He was someone who just got beat, and you just felt great. Good for Rocky, he kicked that guy’s ass. But with Ivan Drago I think some people felt, “Awww, poor guy. They just used him, he’s actually not such a bad guy!” It wasn’t his fault! Have you felt over the years more interest from your fans to see more dimension in the characters you play? Yeah I think so, you feel that. But I always didn’t push it cause I know you can’t push it, and it wasn’t like I was dying to show it and my life would be nothing if I couldn’t show people who I really was. But now it’s happening on its own and it feels pretty good. I caught your performance in Jonas Akerlund’s Small Apartments , for example. Small Apartments was crazy, like a zany like Jerry Lewis type of a thing… Are you tempted to branch out more in that kind of way, with more daring or unexpected indie material and iconoclast directors? Yeah, I have some other ones I’ve done that are not out yet. There’s one I’m doing this fall called Without You I’m Nothing which is a drama about a girl who comes to L.A. to become a stripper. It’s written by the lead actress and there’s a good role in that, kind of like a crime boss, but he’s an interesting, mercurial type of a guy. So that’s dramatic, there’s no action. I don’t kill anybody. When you look back on your career and the ups and downs you’ve had over the years, what’s your perspective on where you’ve ended up and how you’ve gotten here? I feel pretty good about where I am now. In my way I feel like it’s a new beginning somehow, I don’t feel burnt out. I don’t feel like people know me. I feel like I’ve managed to keep sort of a mystery so that even though I haven’t accomplished what a lot of people have accomplished at my age, I still feel like it wouldn’t have worked for me because I wasn’t mature enough to handle it. Now I feel more ready to do other things so I’m pretty excited about the future. I’m glad the path went in that direction because also I got married, had two kids, brought them up in Europe, got divorced, came back here again, the kids are okay they didn’t become victims of Hollywood or anything, so that feels good too. Your life story would make quite the interesting biopic… Well I hope I’m still like halfway through it! Finding someone to play that role, that’s a tough one. It’s been announced that they’re moving forward with the remake of Masters of the Universe . What are your memories from making the original, and given that it notoriously flopped are yours fond memories of that project? There are some semi-fond memories because I had just done Rocky IV and became very well known worldwide, even though I didn’t know what that meant and it was very hard for me to deal with it. [ Masters of the Universe ] was my next picture after being the Russian bad guy. I was now kind of the American hero and it was like, “Whoa okay, let me see now how do I do this.” And I broke up with Grace [Jones] at that time, my girlfriend, so it was a hard time for me. My manager — I had to fire a bunch of people that were stealing from me. So it was a good memory in one way, on a professional level, because it was a fun movie and it’s one of the few movies my kids have seen because they’re small and it’s like a PG kids movie. But on a personal level I remember I was a little bit unhappy in life and other stuff. What advice would you give the people who are making the Masters of the Universe reboot ? Gosh, I don’t know. I thought about that for a second when I read it. Which way are they going to take it — superhero, really violent, CGI-driven? Or if they’re going to do more of a kids thing like Wizard of Oz , sweeter, I don’t know… Would you go back and turn in a cameo if they asked? [Laughs] If I’m gonna do anything in that movie, I’m gonna keep my shirt on . 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