News > Courtney Cox Gets the Dirt for FX
August 5, 2006
Via: Coming Soon
Courtney Cox-Arquette is having a busy summer with not one, but two movies coming out. The southern beauty co-stars with Tim Allen in Columbia Pictures' Zoom and she voices the character of Daisy in Paramount Pictures' Barnyard: The Original Party Animals. But, she's not stopping there.
ComingSoon.net caught up with the former "Friends" star, who talked about her upcoming new show on FX called "Dirt," in which she'll play an editor of a tabloid publication.
"It's really kind of a dark, salacious [and] sexy," she said.
This role is rather fitting for Cox since she is always making headlines and constantly being followed by paparazzi. But, in recent weeks she hasn't minded so much because she has actually stopped the photographers and asked them about their job as research for the show.
"Two things happened. I went to Disneyland and there was a photographer taking pictures as I was riding a rollercoaster and the wind flapping my mouth back. I was like, 'Oh, David!' David jumps over the thing and gets him and says you got to get out and calls the security. Because Coco was there. We were there for her birthday so we wanted him kicked out. But then I felt bad," she explains.
"He was at Disneyland and maybe he wanted to ride some rides so I said, 'You can stay in the park, you can have one picture but I have to have your card and we want to interview you.' So he came into the writers' room and gave us a lot of information. And this guy sits out in front of my house. I saw him behind the curtain and I said, 'I see you're there. You can have a picture but give me your card.' So I'm now making friends with the ones as long as they – I mean, that's the end of my friendship with them," Cox said laughing.
She wasn't initially going to star in the show, but she liked the script so much, she couldn't resist.
"Ian Hart plays my paparazzi and it's great. It's a really fantastic series. We were producing and then I read the script when it finally came in and I said, 'I gotta do this.'"
Even though she has been friendly with some of the photographers, she has some advice for them.
"To them it's a job, but to me it makes me want to sell my house in Malibu. A job is one thing, but do it at a restaurant, take our picture anywhere but don't take it in the backyard of our home [where] I have a house on the ocean."
Check your local listings for "Dirt," but in the meantime you can see Cox when Barnyard: The Original Party Animals hits theatres August 4th and Zoom on August 11th.
