Video: Ashlee Simpson-Wentz on Melrose Place Role: I’d Always Rather Play the Bitch!
Some of the cast members may be the same, but the drama is all-new on tonight's season premiere of Melrose Place, according to cast members Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Thomas Calabro and Laura Leighton.
"It’s like a new show," Calabro, who played Dr. Michael Mancini on the original '90s series, told Usmagazine.com at the CW's Upfront Press Day. (Watch a clip above). "At the same time, I get to bring back a character I loved and had a lot of fun with. I’m looking forward to him being older and wiser and more handsome."
Agrees Laura Leighton, who plays landlord Sydney: "There will be plenty of opportunities to find out who really has a dark side underneath -- every character has the potential. There’s a bit of gray in everyone."
In the meantime, Simpson-Wentz is eager to introduce her character, Violet, to viewers for the first time.
"None of us really know if we’re going to be the good girl or the bad girl, so we’ve all got life decisions to make," Simpson-Wentz says of her character. "But I'd always rather [play the] bitch!"
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6Sorry my mistake role not roll.
Don't really think you would have to do that much acting to fill that roll.. nothing to worry about should come natural for you...Piece of cake!
"None of us really know if weâ??re going to be the good girl or the bad girl, so weâ??ve all got life decisions to make," Simpson-Wentz says. She then added,"Like my sister Jessica's decisions whenever she goes to KFC for her usual afternoon snack of five 20 piece fried chicken buckets. Do I get white meat or dark meat?" Ashlee went on to say,"Then it's like, do I wash down the chicken with a 5 gallon or 10 gallon drum of mayonaise? You know...life decisions!"
"None of us really know if weâ??re going to be the good girl or the bad girl, so weâ??ve all got life decisions to make," Simpson-Wentz says. She then added,"Like my sister Jessica's decisions whenever she goes to KFC for her usual afternoon snack of five 20 piece fried chicken buckets. Do I get white meat or dark meat?" Ashlee went on to say,"Then it's like, do I wash down the chicken with a 5 gallon or 10 gallon drum of mayonaise? You know...life decisions!"
Toss in the fact that she blamed the SNL fiasco on her band, and claimed her nose job was for "devaited septum, and you have the makings of a real HAG!
She doesn't have to play the b**ch - ask the McDonalds workers and Pete's old flames. Will not watch with a Simpson on the show!