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ARBITERS
Questions for Stephen Knoll
A Girl's Best Friend
BON APPÉTIT
Questions for Nobu Matsuhisa
Questions for Tony Esnault
the new Le Cirque interview Iké Udé
BUSINESS OFF THE WALL
Questions for Nicholas Callaway
Questions for John Hunt
FASHION
Chinatown photography Norman Watson
Passions of Rihanna photography Iké Udé
KULTURE & ART CINEMA
Dominique Swain Lolita Has A Tattoo interview Brandon Judell
Jared Leto My Bashed-up Life On Screen interview Brandon Judell
Zoe Saldana No Regrets interview Brandon Judell
KULTURE & ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portraits backstage at Olympus Fashion Week interview Valerie Steele
Francesco Clemente Impermanence of The Self interview Johan Falkman
Roger Szmulewicz Looking at Pictures interview Parker Stephenson
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ONLINE content
ARBITERS
Questions for Stephen Knoll
A Girl's Best Friend
BON APPÉTIT
Questions for Nobu Matsuhisa
Questions for Tony Esnault
the new Le Cirque interview Iké Udé
BUSINESS OFF THE WALL
Questions for Nicholas Callaway
Questions for John Hunt
FASHION
Chinatown photography Norman Watson
Passions of Rihanna photography Iké Udé
KULTURE & ART CINEMA
Dominique Swain Lolita Has A Tattoo interview Brandon Judell
Jared Leto My Bashed-up Life On Screen interview Brandon Judell
Zoe Saldana No Regrets interview Brandon Judell
KULTURE & ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portraits backstage at Olympus Fashion Week interview Valerie Steele
Francesco Clemente Impermanence of The Self interview Johan Falkman
Roger Szmulewicz Looking at Pictures interview Parker Stephenson
DOMINIQUE SWAIN lolita has a tattoo
interview Brandon Judell
Dominique Swain photography Larissa Underwood for LaMoine.com click image to enlarge Brandon Judell: So, you have a broken foot? How did that happen?
Dominique Swain: Here's the deal. What I've been told to say is that I had a snowboarding accident because I regularly take part in triple-X sports. Like, I'm not scared to do anything, but the real story is: in sundance, I was staying at my agent's condo in this really lovely bedroom where the ceilings were basically two stories high. And they had this loft over on the right-hand side of the bed. And I was, like, I gotta climb up there. So I stood on top of this canopy bed, and I reached over, and I still couldn't reach it. So I jumped and slammed through the closet. My foot just shattered. I got rushed to the emergency room, and it was a complete and utter disaster. It's sort of the stupidest way to break your foot.
BJ: This probably doesn't mean much to you, but Stuff Magazine selected you as one of the 102 sexiest women in the world just three years ago.
DS: Oh, yeah.
BJ: When you see that some men are having fantasies about you, how do you react?
DS: I think I should get a bigger dog.
BJ: Do these type of lists have any value?
DS: Um, I’m on the fence about that. If you’ve noticed, they picked some really hideous monsters to stick on that list. It’s basically who has the best press at the time, and I’ve never had much investment in publicity or wearing the right things. I probably should have paid more attention because there are a lot of people who actually have an investment in this type of hype. There are certain roles where sex is a huge factor, and if people think that other people are excited by you sexually, then they’re going to cast you for those roles…I think that getting your face on the magazines definitely makes a difference.
BJ: I was just meandering through the website for your upcoming film, The Pacific and Eddy. You play an artist in it.
DS: Yes, I do.
DS: I can draw. I have a painting on my wall right now of this "souke" in Lebanon. But I've only finished about two feet of it, and it's on a six-foot canvas, so right now it's half pencil-sketched. It's already hanging on my wall, just because I want to irritate myself into actually finishing it.
BJ: It's a what? In Lebanon?
DS: It's a "souke." It's a marketplace.
BJ: How do you spell that?
DS: S-O-U-K-E?
BJ: It's not part of my regular vocabulary.
DS: It wasn't in mine either until I went there for New Year's last year.
BJ: So what attracted you to The Pacific and Eddy?
DS: Actually, someone that I had worked with on White Air, [an X-treme snowboarding flick] had brought up the fact that she was working on my film to the director, and he was like, "Oh, Dominique's my first choice for this project." So they sort of figured out a way to invite themselves to my birthday party. The girl who had worked on White Air was already invited. And she was, like, "I can bring this director. We've been talking about you." And I go, "Of course. Of course." So she brought him there, and we talked about the project. The director, Matt Nourse, had such a sense of calm confidence. He knew what he wanted so exactly; as an actor, that’s a real treat. The way that he communicated with you was intense. It was really, like, to the core of who the character was, instead of do this; try this. I knew that he would be making an amazing film. And it's such a character study also; that’s one of the things I look for.
BJ: Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog also looks like it will be worth a glance or two. Did playing opposite Justin make you want to get a lot of tattoos?
DS: Oh, God, no! They're horrid. I think they're the ugliest things ever. I have a tattoo actually. I got it when I was 15 and fancied myself a rebel. My friend made a tattoo gun out of a Walkman motor, and came over to my house. I was letting him stay in my other room for a little while, and he was like, "Oh, as payment, I want to give you some art." I'm like, "Art? Okay. Cool!" He's like "No, like a tat." And I said, "Okay." So I was thinking about all the things that I wanted to design on my body as a teenager, and I was going to get a bar code (I didn't know that this was actually a pretty common tattoo). Then, I was going to get a Sunkist sticker, like right by my navel (Ha! Ha!). And then, I was just basically completely chickening out. And I was reading in this tattoo book about how the hands and feet naturally exfoliate. So I was like, "Hmm. I want a star on my hand." He was like, "How big?" I'm like, "As tiny as you can make it." So right now it actually looks like I have a "K" on my palm or like someone jabbed me with a pencil. That's my tattoo. I think that they just pollute the body; I think they’re hideous.
interview Brandon Judell
Dominique Swain photography Larissa Underwood for LaMoine.com click image to enlarge Brandon Judell: So, you have a broken foot? How did that happen?
Dominique Swain: Here's the deal. What I've been told to say is that I had a snowboarding accident because I regularly take part in triple-X sports. Like, I'm not scared to do anything, but the real story is: in sundance, I was staying at my agent's condo in this really lovely bedroom where the ceilings were basically two stories high. And they had this loft over on the right-hand side of the bed. And I was, like, I gotta climb up there. So I stood on top of this canopy bed, and I reached over, and I still couldn't reach it. So I jumped and slammed through the closet. My foot just shattered. I got rushed to the emergency room, and it was a complete and utter disaster. It's sort of the stupidest way to break your foot.
BJ: This probably doesn't mean much to you, but Stuff Magazine selected you as one of the 102 sexiest women in the world just three years ago.
DS: Oh, yeah.
BJ: When you see that some men are having fantasies about you, how do you react?
DS: I think I should get a bigger dog.
BJ: Do these type of lists have any value?
DS: Um, I’m on the fence about that. If you’ve noticed, they picked some really hideous monsters to stick on that list. It’s basically who has the best press at the time, and I’ve never had much investment in publicity or wearing the right things. I probably should have paid more attention because there are a lot of people who actually have an investment in this type of hype. There are certain roles where sex is a huge factor, and if people think that other people are excited by you sexually, then they’re going to cast you for those roles…I think that getting your face on the magazines definitely makes a difference.
BJ: I was just meandering through the website for your upcoming film, The Pacific and Eddy. You play an artist in it.
DS: Yes, I do.
I think tattoos just pollute the body; I think they’re hideous.
BJ: One would assume you have an artistic nature. Can you draw?
DS: I can draw. I have a painting on my wall right now of this "souke" in Lebanon. But I've only finished about two feet of it, and it's on a six-foot canvas, so right now it's half pencil-sketched. It's already hanging on my wall, just because I want to irritate myself into actually finishing it.
BJ: It's a what? In Lebanon?
DS: It's a "souke." It's a marketplace.
BJ: How do you spell that?
DS: S-O-U-K-E?
BJ: It's not part of my regular vocabulary.
DS: It wasn't in mine either until I went there for New Year's last year.
BJ: So what attracted you to The Pacific and Eddy?
DS: Actually, someone that I had worked with on White Air, [an X-treme snowboarding flick] had brought up the fact that she was working on my film to the director, and he was like, "Oh, Dominique's my first choice for this project." So they sort of figured out a way to invite themselves to my birthday party. The girl who had worked on White Air was already invited. And she was, like, "I can bring this director. We've been talking about you." And I go, "Of course. Of course." So she brought him there, and we talked about the project. The director, Matt Nourse, had such a sense of calm confidence. He knew what he wanted so exactly; as an actor, that’s a real treat. The way that he communicated with you was intense. It was really, like, to the core of who the character was, instead of do this; try this. I knew that he would be making an amazing film. And it's such a character study also; that’s one of the things I look for.
BJ: Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog also looks like it will be worth a glance or two. Did playing opposite Justin make you want to get a lot of tattoos?
DS: Oh, God, no! They're horrid. I think they're the ugliest things ever. I have a tattoo actually. I got it when I was 15 and fancied myself a rebel. My friend made a tattoo gun out of a Walkman motor, and came over to my house. I was letting him stay in my other room for a little while, and he was like, "Oh, as payment, I want to give you some art." I'm like, "Art? Okay. Cool!" He's like "No, like a tat." And I said, "Okay." So I was thinking about all the things that I wanted to design on my body as a teenager, and I was going to get a bar code (I didn't know that this was actually a pretty common tattoo). Then, I was going to get a Sunkist sticker, like right by my navel (Ha! Ha!). And then, I was just basically completely chickening out. And I was reading in this tattoo book about how the hands and feet naturally exfoliate. So I was like, "Hmm. I want a star on my hand." He was like, "How big?" I'm like, "As tiny as you can make it." So right now it actually looks like I have a "K" on my palm or like someone jabbed me with a pencil. That's my tattoo. I think that they just pollute the body; I think they’re hideous.
