Mars 2000
By Robert Abele
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The Felicity heartthrob takes a top-secret stab at the big screen in the final Scream movie
"I play, uh ..." [Pause] "... a first-time director directing ..." [Pause] "... Stab3 ..." [Pause] "... which is a play on ... [Pause] ... the last movie." Scott Foley isn't blanking on his first movie role, in Scream 3, the last in the trilogy; he's simply keeping in mind the impending wrath of Miramax's Weinstein brothers if he strays from preapproved Scream 3 factoids. Does he have the Drew Barrymore sitting-duck part? "No." Is he disposed of in any way? "Um ... don't think I can tell you that." Is he prominently featured throughout? His head starts to make a circle until a cautious response emerges. "Yee-e-e-e-e-s?" Who could blame him for his reticence? It wasn't that long ago that the St. Louis-bred actor skipped college to live out his childhood dream (the musical Annie, of all things, inspired him to act) in Los Angeles. He then endured five years of near-poverty - including a memorable stint spent eating nothing but day-old cookies from his job at Mrs. Fields and living as a squatter - before getting a part on a TV show. And he learned a few rules the hard way. "I would take agents to lunch," says a sheepish Foley, whose career took off last year, when he landed the role of boyfriend-ideal Noel Crane on Felicity. "I would drop a hundred bucks on a nice meal, thinking they'd send me out for good stuff. My friends would say, 'Bro, agents pay.' I didn't know better." With his big-screen debut on the horizon, the 27-year-old has ambitious career goals, though he's refreshingly honest about them. "I definitely want to be considered an actor, but I'm not against being a movie star, either. What is Tom Hanks?" The comparison makes Foley laugh. "Now that's huge. Let me tell you, anybody who doesn't want that is smoking crack." |