She’s the bitchy blonde beauty you love to hate, the one
you know would be a blast to party-hop across SoCal with
even though you know there’s a good chance she might
swipe your boyfriend. And now Laguna Beach’s sexy
siren Kristin Cavalieri has uprooted from the O.C. to
L.A., looking to make it as an actress in
Hollywood—after all, that snarky girl you see on MTV is
just a “character” she plays, right? Right?
Q: You're moving and shaking in the Hollywood
scene now. How's that treating you?
Cavalieri: “It's kind of fun. I'm
having a great time.”
Q: Are you excited about how huge the show’s
become?
Cavalieri: “Oh, I am so excited. It's
so unexpected. I mean, I never – I feel like I'm living
a dream right now and I'm gonna wake up and go ‘What the
hell just happened?’ But yeah, I'm so happy with
everything.”
Q: Are you getting offers flooding in for other
projects now?
Cavalieri: “Yeah, I'm actually this
close to signing something, but I don't want to tell you
what, because I don't want to jinx it. It’s for TV.”
Q: Is that the plan, now--you want to be an
actress?
Cavalieri: “I want to be, yeah, I want
to be in movies eventually, that's my goal. I'm taking
acting classes right now. I've gone on like two
auditions, so, I'm getting out there slowly.”
Q: What's the trickiest part of playing somebody
else, when you're already so used to playing yourself on
TV?--Or at least a variation of yourself?
Cavalieri: “Yeah! [laughs] Because it's kind of
myself, yeah. So what's different about it? I guess
before, I was playing me as a character, and so now it's
just getting out of my head and going into like a whole
different person. But I think it's fun, I have a great
time acting.”
Q: What do people say to you on the street when
they recognize you?
Cavalieri: “The number one thing I get
is ‘Oh, you're not so much of a bitch after all!’
[laughs] I'm like ‘Thanks!’ [laughs]
Q: Do you feel you'll eventually have to
overcome that preconceived image?
Cavalieri: “Yeah. Right now it's
definitely all in my favor, but yeah, eventually. I've
gotten a ton of fans from being a bitch, but I also want
to get the fans who don’t think I am a bitch, because
I'm really, that's, like, five percent of my
personality. So yeah, I definitely want to overcome
that.”
Q: A lot of viewers are falling for you. Who is
the celebrity that you had a crush on?
Cavalieri: “Oh God--Leonardo DiCaprio,
for sure. Back like Titanic. Yeah, back when I
was…who knows how old I was? I just think every little
girl fell in love with him, everyone had the posters on
the wall. Something about him.”
Q: Which star’s style would you most like to
emulate?
Cavalieri: “Fashion sense? Jessica
Simpson. She always looks cute, even if it's the whole
grungy, baggy look like she doesn't care, but it still
looks good, so definitely her.”
