Title: Tobey Maguire
Description: Yo Yo SpiderMaguire!!
Description: Yo Yo SpiderMaguire!!
KimiBloom - August 19, 2004 07:30 PM (GMT)
Me...I love the nerdy types, and who better to personify those traits??
Quiet
Intelligent
Deadpan wit
Sexy in glasses
and unwrap that gift and there's a surprise inside...Mr. Yoga Six Pack!! :lmao:
Quiet
Intelligent
Deadpan wit
Sexy in glasses
and unwrap that gift and there's a surprise inside...Mr. Yoga Six Pack!! :lmao:
Bloomiecurse - August 19, 2004 07:35 PM (GMT)
Oh Kim! You do know how much I hear you in this!
He is the kind of guy - apparently - I could fall for in real life! Decreetly good looking and with big clear eyes...
Ummm.... I have been collecting all his movies for a while now, and I do love the way he acts and the fact that he does not only join blockbusters movies.
I adored him in Wonder Boys!
I :love: Tobey!
:spiderman:
He is the kind of guy - apparently - I could fall for in real life! Decreetly good looking and with big clear eyes...
Ummm.... I have been collecting all his movies for a while now, and I do love the way he acts and the fact that he does not only join blockbusters movies.
I adored him in Wonder Boys!
I :love: Tobey!
:spiderman:
hollybaggins - September 8, 2004 04:42 PM (GMT)
He's got a very nice house in the Hollywood hills :yes: ;-)
Neighbours consist of Britney Spears, Halle Berry and Courteney Cox Arquette. I paid attention during the movie star home tour!! :woot: I could quite easily live there! :bow:
Neighbours consist of Britney Spears, Halle Berry and Courteney Cox Arquette. I paid attention during the movie star home tour!! :woot: I could quite easily live there! :bow:
Moka - October 9, 2004 06:22 PM (GMT)
Sincerely Tobey is not the kind of guy that can make me crazy...
...but for the deep sense of respect and trust I feel for my friends Bloomiecurse and Kimibloome I can say he' s an interestinfg boy...
... He looks like the boy living in the next door, the neighbour that you can disturb for a good suggestion or when you finish your coffee... :noangel:
... Okay, okay girls... don't complain so hard and loud... I can hear you from here!!!!
... and please... no tomatoes!!!! :tom:
Okay, I can admit that Spiderman of the neighbourhood can inspire also other feelings in your minds... :spidey:
And I MUST admit, also, that he's quite clever in choosing his friends!!!! :eeek:
...but for the deep sense of respect and trust I feel for my friends Bloomiecurse and Kimibloome I can say he' s an interestinfg boy...
... He looks like the boy living in the next door, the neighbour that you can disturb for a good suggestion or when you finish your coffee... :noangel:
... Okay, okay girls... don't complain so hard and loud... I can hear you from here!!!!
... and please... no tomatoes!!!! :tom:
Okay, I can admit that Spiderman of the neighbourhood can inspire also other feelings in your minds... :spidey:
And I MUST admit, also, that he's quite clever in choosing his friends!!!! :eeek:
Schmooie730 - October 10, 2004 01:56 AM (GMT)
I really liked his acting in Spiderman. He made me fall in love with his character Peter Parker. Haven't seen many of his other movies, but I think I will now!
*~Steph~*
*~Steph~*
tinkertoy - December 12, 2004 04:23 AM (GMT)
I wanted to wrap him up and take him home when I saw him in Pleasantville...so when he did Spiderman and revealed those lovely abs/arms/body, I nearly fell over and died. :hospital:
Man I'm such a sucker for "nerdy" hot guys with dark hair, blue eyes, cute laugh and soft-spoken ways. Can anybody say *SWOON*? :eeeek: :woot: :cloud#9: :hug: :drool:
xoxo-Ambies :heartbeat:
Man I'm such a sucker for "nerdy" hot guys with dark hair, blue eyes, cute laugh and soft-spoken ways. Can anybody say *SWOON*? :eeeek: :woot: :cloud#9: :hug: :drool:
xoxo-Ambies :heartbeat:
glo316 - June 14, 2006 08:28 AM (GMT)
spiderman is good, can't wait for the third instalment. But yeah, wonderboys rules, and so does pleasantville! he always makes me fall in love with his characters.
i adore the nerdiness, and i love the way he talks.
i adore the nerdiness, and i love the way he talks.
Bloomiecurse - May 3, 2007 09:08 PM (GMT)
Good Lord! Some time has passed since we all last posted here!!!
But ehy! As the 3rd installment of SPIDERMAN is now in theatres, we might want to revamp some of the old Spidey love, might we not?
^_^
There we go, with the transcript of an interview to Tobey published on the April issue of the magazine PARADE.
But ehy! As the 3rd installment of SPIDERMAN is now in theatres, we might want to revamp some of the old Spidey love, might we not?
^_^
There we go, with the transcript of an interview to Tobey published on the April issue of the magazine PARADE.
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"I Learned How to Survive" By Robert Masello SOURCE: Parade Magazine (April 8, 2007) The article is copyrighted to the above referenced author/publication with all rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended. TOBEY MAGUIRE OPENS UP ABOUT TOUGH CHILDHOOD; SAYS KISSING KIRSTEN DUNST WAS HARDEST THING HE HAD TO DO AS SPIDER-MAN When you’re tracking down Spider-Man—a.k.a. Tobey Maguire—you expect a little intrigue. In his office just above Sunset Boulevard, Maguire has no sign on the door—only an intercom button. Press it, and you are buzzed into the hushed lair of the 31-year-old actor who has laid claim to what is arguably the richest superhero role in Hollywood history. Just don’t expect a superhero entrance. “Hi,” he says, shuffling into the conference room with an armful of cobalt-blue water bottles. “ Want one of these?” (In Hollywood, the offering of bottled water is a ritual akin to passing the Native American peace pipe.) In person, Maguire is slight—maybe 5 feet 8 or so—and with his thick mop of neat brown hair, he will probably always remind you of a kid who has just been to the barbershop. The white sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers do nothing to offset that impression. But talking to him does. Just back from a photo shoot—where he was, of course, shrouded in cobwebs—he is wryly amused and accepting of his fate. “Yeah, I do get a lot of spidery stuff in my life,” he admits in his very distinctive voice—high and scratchy, like an old record. The conference room, adorned with Spider-Man snow globes, lunch pails and cereal boxes, makes the point. “It’s probably going to get insane again now,” he says, laughing about the imminent May 4 opening of Spider-Man 3. Not that Maguire, who reportedly earned about $17 million for this latest installment, is complaining. He has worn the spandex well. And barring the occasional bump in the road—a testy contract renegotiation before undertaking Spider-Man 2—he has taken his lumps as Peter Parker, the high school nerd who contracts miraculous powers from the bite of a bioengineered spider, with consummate grace. Despite all the acrobatics, he says, “Probably the hardest thing I’v e had to do as Spider-Man was kiss Kirsten Dunst.” Come again? Maguire laughs and hurries to explain himself: “When we shot that scene where we kissed in the alleyway and I was hanging upside down, it was really late at night, it was raining, and the whole time I had rainwater running up my nose. Then, when Kirsten rolled back the wet mask, she cut off the air completely.” (OK, I get it, but I’m not shedding any tears for him.) Still, life for Maguire hasn’t all been kissing Kirsten Dunst. When he was born in Santa Monica, Calif., his mother was only 18 and his father, a cook, was 20. By the time Tobey was 3, they’d separated for good. As a result, Tobey bounced around from one relative’s home to another throughout his childhood, from Southern California to Oregon to Washington. “They were just babies,” he says of his young parents, “doing whatever the heck they thought they should be doing.” Maguire says it with great compassion, the way a dad might explain away his own kids’ misbehavior. “But I always felt that there were people in my life who cared about me—that I was special to them. It’s very complicated. But the truth of the matter is, I realized at a young age that I was responsible for myself. My feelings of love or security or happiness—they were all in my own hands. I had plenty of difficult emotional and scary times as a kid, but I don’t dwell on it.” And then he adds with great conviction, “I am not a victim.” Indeed, Maguire gives off a surprisingly businesslike, though always affable, vibe: Despite all the roles he has played as lost and forlorn young men in everything from The Ice Storm and Wonder Boys to The Cider House Rules, he comes across in person as thoughtful, deliberate and downright driven. “If there’s one thing I know,” he says, “it’s that I don’t want to play any more wide-eyed high school kids who are awkward with girls! “Growing up the way I did, I had a very serious ambition to make some money, to have some security and comfort in my life,” he adds. And $100 was all it took to set him on his way. When he was 11, Tobey was planning to enroll in a cooking class at school. Instead, his mother, who’d had some showbiz dreams of her own, offered him $100 to try acting classes. “It was the best money she ever spent,” he says. Soon Tobey started auditioning for everything from TV sitcoms to movies, and he began landing parts pretty much from the get-go. “When I first started being successful at this, financially speaking, I was very conservative with my money. That was definitely a product of where I came from. You know those Lotto winners who win big and then blow through all the money? That would never happen to me. I just never wanted to put myself in the position where my spending was so huge that I had to keep making movie after movie. My mentality about that has changed a bit,” he concedes, now that he’s a bona fide superstar. Besides, Maguire now has a family to plan for. He’s engaged to Jennifer Meyer, an L.A. jewelry designer who also happens to be the daughter of Ron Meyer, the president of Universal Studios, and together they have a 5-month-old daughter, Ruby. “L.A. is my home, and I have a lot of friends here,” Maguire says, “but I’m at that stage where I have to start thinking about where I want Ruby to grow up and go to school. And even though L.A. is pretty laid-back, maybe it would be a good idea to try a different, less ambitious kind of atmosphere.” For a guy who dropped out of school after 10th grade, Maguire exudes a sophistication and maturity far beyond his years and his looks. Whatever he takes on, he takes on for real. An ardent vegetarian for 14 years, he even has forsworn a leather interior in his new car (“I ordered it with canvas”) and also is starting to wear shoes “made from hemp and things like that.” Not to make too much of it, but it’s worth noting that the name of his most famous character is Spider-Man, not Spider-Boy. Those pale-blue eyes look like they’ve seen a lot, and when he says, “I feel like you could drop me anywhere in the world, anonymously, and I’d figure out how to survive,” you believe him. “If you stripped away everything I’ve got—the money, the fame, the possessions, everything—I know that I’d find a way to get along,” Maguire declares in a confident but not boastful way, “because, basically, that’s what I’ve had to do all my life.” OTHER QUOTES AND COMMENTS FROM THE PARADE INTERVIEW The vegetarian… “I’ve been a vegetarian for 14 years now,” Maguire tells us. “And a lot of the time I avoid going to restaurants. I eat at home. Actually, I’m close to being a vegan, but I’m not one, technically. I don’t eat eggs, or nearly any dairy—no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there…. It’s never really been that hard for me. I’ve never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that…. I don’t judge people who eat meat—that’s not for me to say—but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.” The gambler… “I play some poker, and I really enjoy it. At the casinos I don’t really play the other games very much because unless you’ve got a team of MIT graduates working with you, it’s difficult to win at the blackjack table. And you can’t get away with that for very long. But the thing about poker is, first of all there’s the social element—it’s fun—and it’s a game of skill, where you can tip the scales in your favor. I don’t like to play games where the odds are against me.” The art collector… “I’m an art lover. I love going to galleries and museums like LACMA [Los Angeles County Museum of Art]. What’s wild is that when I go to New York, I’ll go to see everything, but something will be [in L.A.] for four months and I still don’t get around to it. Although I probably look at more art when I’m in New York, I do like going to see art here, or even at someone’s house. Sometimes I’ll go and visit artists in their studios just to check out their work.” Jaaaack… “I can’t really say that I’d model my career on anyone else’s, but I admire the guys from the ’70s—Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall. Nicholson, probably more than any other actor, has sustained the highest level for the longest time—getting the best roles, working with the best directors. If I could have anything like those opportunities for the next 30 years of my own career, that would be great!” Writer Robert Masello on Maguire… “The thing about Tobey is, he kind of sneaks up on you—in life, just as he does in the movies. When you first encounter him—on screen or in person—he seems slight, soft-spoken, even a bit insubstantial. But as time goes by, he gathers weight and gains your attention and ultimately you find that you’re totally focused on him. In a movie, you’ve become utterly convinced that he is the character—whether it’s Spider-Man or Red Pollard, the jockey in Seabiscuit—and it’s as if he’s pulled off a very smooth magic trick. Offscreen, you find that you’re really listening to what he has to say and that you’re fully engaged. Could this be charisma?” © Robert Masello, Parade Magazine |