26/06/2007

Beautiful US actress Tea Leoni is still smitten with her husband David Duchovny ten years after they tied the knot, and she would put him and their children before her career.

In a recent interview with OK! magazine, Tea revealed that not only is David a great dad, he is also a really romantic hubby - and that it was his idea for the couple to have tattoos of their wedding rings on their fingers.

"I thought the way he tattooed his wedding band on his finger was very sexy and romantic. His insisting that I go and do the same was less romantic … and painful."

"I figured if I put it on my abs, in 40 years, it might change shape. It was better if I put it on my ring finger."

However, she also revealed that despite his good qualities there are certain things about her 46-year-old beau that get on her nerves!

"I love his mind, I love his body, I love his humour, I love the way that he fathers. But I don't like that he leaves his shoes around," she said. "The guy has boats for feet! He leaves his size 12 shoes halfway sticking out of the coffee table so that I can almost kill myself walking on them. That drives me nuts."

Mother-of-two Tea is currently starring in the comedy thriller You Kill Me, which is due to be released in the UK later this year.

Thanks to http://www.confetti.co.uk!

By Valerie Nome

Téa Leoni is a wife and mother first, and a movie star second.

“The film needs to be good enough for me to spend twelve hours a day away from them,” the You Kill Me star, who has been married to David Duchovny for ten years, told OK! this week.

These days, Téa, 41, has her hands full playing the love interest in the comedic thriller You Kill Me, which opens Friday (June 22). Even with a busy schedule that takes her away from home, she has a tattoo of a wedding band on her ring finger that shows as a constant reminder of her husband’s love.

“I thought the way he tattooed his wedding band on his finger was very sexy and romantic,” she told OK! “His insisting that I go and do the same was less romantic … and painful. I figured if I put it on my abs, in 40 years, it might change shape. It was better if I put it on my ring finger.”

Téa confesses, “I love his mind, I love his body, I love his humor, I love the way that he fathers. But I don’t like that he leaves his shoes around. The guy has boats for feet! He leaves his size 12 shoes halfway sticking out of the coffee table so that I can almost kill myself walking on them. That drives me nuts.”

Certainly parenting their daughter Madelaine West, 8, and son Kyd Miller, 5, keeps her busy. The actress says her kids understand what she and her famous hubby do for a living, but they don’t take it seriously.

“My daughter doesn’t quite think it’s worth it,” she says. “It’s troublesome to her. ‘What do you mean you’re going to work? You’re going to go make a movie? That’s not work!’ She’s just starting to become aware of it. But my son has found The X-Files. We don’t let him see any of The X-Files all the way through, but we have this pinball machine that is an X-Files pinball machine. That’s what my son thinks David does for a living. That he makes pinball machines for the X-Files. So he sits there and he plays it. He’s like ‘isn’t this a great game? Wait, I can’t talk ‘cause my dad, he’s being chased by that guy, and there’s the oil guy…’ It’s very funny.”

How did they celebrate Father’s Day? “The kids actually did beautiful self portraits and they framed them. They had drawn these great pastels, and they gave them to David very, very early on Sunday morning. He didn’t get to sleep in.”

Growing old with David, 46, is one of the many joys Téa enjoys. What’s their secret? “Ask me in 40 years,” she says. “I don’t want to work with David until we’re ready to do Mr and Mrs. Bridge. “

From Ok! Magazine

June 19, 2007

Téa Leoni gets into character by picking out lingerie.

The actress prepares for film roles by buying the right underwear.
She explains, "It’s the first thing you put on. People make jokes about this but I’m adamant about it." And Leoni reveals she picked out sensible Hanes undies for her latest character in You Kill Me.

She adds, "This was the first time I’d ever worn Hanes for a character. That never appealed to me but I knew she was a Hanes girl." And, once Leoni has her character’s underwear worked out, she turns to her hair: "For this role, I wanted something for her hair that was very military, not like a short military cut but like a pith helmet."

From: Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)

Tea Leoni at the premiere of 'You Kill Me', held at the IFC Theatre in downtown New York on June 19, 2007

David Duchovny with his son at the base camp of new show on Showtime called Californication on June 18, 2007

By SARA STEWART

June 17, 2007 -- There are some showbiz mysteries we'll just never solve: Why doesn't Donald Trump change his hair? How does Carlos Mencia manage to stay on television? And why on earth don't we see more of Tea Leoni?

She's one of those rare actors who manages to come off well in otherwise blah movies - a skill she relied on in her last two films, "Fun with Dick and Jane" and "Spanglish." She's also been vocal about the lack of quality film work for older women and has been heralded as "redefining" sexiness in your 40s (whatever that means).

In any case, it's nice to see her in a movie worthy of her smarts and comic timing. "You Kill Me" follows Frank (Ben Kingsley), an alcoholic hit man forced to relocate and detox at the behest of his boss. Leoni's character, a chronically underwhelmed sales executive, plays his love interest.

It's easy to see why Leoni would appeal to director John Dahl. Much like Linda Fiorentino in his 1996 noir-comedy "The Last Seduction," she's both sultry and snarky.

Her first meeting with Frank is in the funeral home where he works. She gives him a pair of bowling shoes to put on her stepfather's corpse. When Frank warns her he may have to break the guy's toes to fit them on, she shrugs: "Whatever gets the job done."

"I think, in a lot of ways, this is John doing that pitch-perfect tone from 'Last Seduction,' " Leoni says. "I think some people are afraid of that - like, how do you make it funny, because [these characters] are just so damaged? John, of course, thinks it's funny because they're damaged."

Leoni's also likable because she's not one for false modesty. When asked about the age difference between her and Kingsley - she's 41, he's 63 - she counters, "I think we look quite perfect together, if I do say so myself. I think there's something very sexy about the pairing."

Interestingly, the one guy she doesn't plan to pair up with onscreen with is her husband, David Duchovny.

"I don't see us working together as actors, because . . . I think that's funky. I mean, I don't want to look into David's eyes and say someone else's love lines."

But when she talks about her husband, Leoni sounds as smitten as the day she - to the envy of many a female sci-fi geek - snagged "X Files" special agent Fox Mulder.

"David has such an intriguing and brilliant mind," she says. "It's a great place to play."

We're guessing he'd return the compliment.

Thanks to NY Post!

By Joel Stratte-McClure
06/14/2007

Sir Ben Kingsley, Luke Wilson and Tea Leoni hit a lot of AA meetings in "You Kill Me." And the trio takes the cinematic tribute to sobriety, which enables a wobbly hit man to gradually regain his steady aim once he puts down the bottle, very seriously.

"I've been around people in AA throughout my life, and many of them definitely have a certain way about them," said Wilson, who portrays Kingsley's AA sponsor, at the premiere at the ArcLight in Hollywood on Monday night. "The program's helped so many people get their lives back on track that I really worked to have my character convey the calm and centeredness I've seen in many recovering alcoholics."

Leoni, who had good buddy Garry ("I don't charge that much to go out with her!") Shandling stand in for husband David Duchovny at the premiere, hadn't been to an AA meeting before attending one on the set of "You Kill Me," which opens Friday.

"I wanted it be my first-ever meeting so that my inexperience would enable me to register the proper emotion at whatever I heard," Leoni explained.

"The writers warned me that people can say anything in AA, and that's certainly the case."

Not that the film spawned an abstemious evening. The after party at the new Ritual restaurant/club on Cahuenga, where Laura Prepon and Natasha Henstridge showed up to groove to '80s tunes, featured enough tequila and white grape martinis to quench everyone's thirst.

And where was Sir Ben? Any truth to those rumors?

"No, he's not in rehab," said director John Dahl. "He's in Vancouver shooting a day at a time."

Thanks to LA Daily News!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
By Brittany McLaren

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 6/12/07 - Hollywood has long been obsessed with the fountain of youth, and actress Tea Leoni may have found it.

There is a litany of leading ladies that have struggled to navigate and challenge the industry’s youth-seeking standards and still find challenging roles. At 41 years old, actress Tea Leoni is one of those select few setting her own standards.

Leoni has been married with two children for over 10 years to “X-Files” David Duchovny, one of the hottest sex symbols of the 90s. Leoni, burst onto the scene in 1995’s action flick “Bad Boys.” Her career has successfully spanned genres from comedies like “Fun with Dick and Jane” to blockbusters “Jurassic Park III” and “Deep Impact.” Anchod this month, Leoni adds co-executive producer to her resume, as she both produces and stars in “You Kill Me,” John Dahl’s smart, dark black comedy about a hitman falling in love. A wife, mother, actress, and now producer, Leoni is proving that 40 truly is the new 30.

Ben Kingsley is Frank Falenczyk, an alcoholic mob hitman who, on boss’s orders, moves to San Francisco to join AA and pull himself together. After getting a job at a mortuary, Frank falls in love with Laurel Pearson (Tea Leoni), a relationship soon to be threatened by characters from his mob past.

Although exceedingly talented, some might consider Kingsley a somewhat unlikely romantic lead. Yet the humble Leoni has nothing but praise for her costar, whose acting ability is supported completely by his sex appeal. Says Leoni, “Forget the clothes, forget the facial hair, the persona that he will be playing. He’s a very sexy guy.”

With a low-profile marriage to fellow actor Duchovny, Leoni admits to liking older men. Between laughs, she confesses, “I actually do find older men attractive…my husband is turning 47 in August and I told him – you know it’s alright, you’re almost there. He’ll get really sexy when he’s 50. 60 ought to be hot. Who wants to lay down with a plebian?”

Much like 1997’s “Grosse Pointe Blank,” Leoni understood that “You Kill Me,” as a hitman black romantic comedy, is hardly blockbuster material. Coming onto the project as co-executive producer, she explains, “that a dark comedy in Hollywood is always going to be somewhat of a tough sell to a studio or to a financier or a distributor…we were making this for under four million dollars…and we were afforded a great creative license.”

Despite the dark comic material of a woman falling in love with an alcoholic hitman, Leoni believes audiences have learned to empathize with such seemingly lowlife characters. She likens “You Kill Me” to HBO’s recently ended success “The Sopranos,” where audiences feel for the characters “because it’s designed that way. The purpose isn’t to educate you about the mob, it’s to have you recognize the humanity that’s behind all of it.”

Leoni hopes that viewers will appreciate Laurel’s complexity, who is not suffering from some sort of “moral depravity” in her love for Frank, but rather is complicated and taken aback by his brutal honesty.

At 41 years old and with more than 15 years in the industry under her belt, Leoni has continued to have a thriving, varied acting career in Hollywood, followed up by her recent foray into producing. Leoni is pensive when she thinks about the different circumstances that young actresses today face. She explains, “it was a different world when I entered Hollywood and that was only 20 years ago…your private life, as much as people were even then bemoaning paparazzi, was nothing like it is today. And you did your work and on your spare time you did your thing – there wasn’t this celebutante ridiculousness…I’m glad I got in when I did.” And so are we.

Thanks to http://www.hollywoodtoday.net!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Hollywood has long been obsessed with the fountain of youth, and actress Tea Leoni may have found it.

There is a litany of leading ladies that have struggled to navigate and challenge the industry's youth-seeking standards and still find challenging roles. At 41 years old, actress Tea Leoni is one of those select few setting her own standards.

Leoni has been married with two children for over 10 years to "X-Files" David Duchovny, one of the hottest sex symbols of the 90s. Leoni, burst onto the scene in 1995's action flick "Bad Boys." Her career has successfully spanned genres from comedies like "Fun with Dick and Jane" to blockbusters "Jurassic Park III" and "Deep Impact." Anchod this month, Leoni adds co-executive producer to her resume, as she both produces and stars in "You Kill Me," John Dahl's smart, dark black comedy about a hitman falling in love. A wife, mother, actress, and now producer, Leoni is proving that 40 truly is the new 30.

Ben Kingsley is Frank Falenczyk, an alcoholic mob hitman who, on boss's orders, moves to San Francisco to join AA and pull himself together. After getting a job at a mortuary, Frank falls in love with Laurel Pearson (Tea Leoni), a relationship soon to be threatened by characters from his mob past.

Although exceedingly talented, some might consider Kingsley a somewhat unlikely romantic lead. Yet the humble Leoni has nothing but praise for her costar, whose acting ability is supported completely by his sex appeal. Says Leoni, "Forget the clothes, forget the facial hair, the persona that he will be playing. He's a very sexy guy."

With a low-profile marriage to fellow actor Duchovny, Leoni admits to liking older men. Between laughs, she confesses, "I actually do find older men attractive…my husband is turning 47 in August and I told him – you know it's alright, you're almost there. He'll get really sexy when he's 50. 60 ought to be hot. Who wants to lay down with a plebian?"

Much like 1997's "Grosse Pointe Blank," Leoni understood that "You Kill Me," as a hitman black romantic comedy, is hardly blockbuster material. Coming onto the project as co-executive producer, she explains, "that a dark comedy in Hollywood is always going to be somewhat of a tough sell to a studio or to a financier or a distributor…we were making this for under four million dollars…and we were afforded a great creative license."

Despite the dark comic material of a woman falling in love with an alcoholic hitman, Leoni believes audiences have learned to empathize with such seemingly lowlife characters. She likens "You Kill Me" to HBO's recently ended success "The Sopranos," where audiences feel for the characters "because it's designed that way. The purpose isn't to educate you about the mob, it's to have you recognize the humanity that's behind all of it."

Leoni hopes that viewers will appreciate Laurel's complexity, who is not suffering from some sort of "moral depravity" in her love for Frank, but rather is complicated and taken aback by his brutal honesty.

At 41 years old and with more than 15 years in the industry under her belt, Leoni has continued to have a thriving, varied acting career in Hollywood, followed up by her recent foray into producing. Leoni is pensive when she thinks about the different circumstances that young actresses today face. She explains, "it was a different world when I entered Hollywood and that was only 20 years ago…your private life, as much as people were even then bemoaning paparazzi, was nothing like it is today. And you did your work and on your spare time you did your thing – there wasn't this celebutante ridiculousness…I'm glad I got in when I did." And so are we.

Thanks to "Hollywood Today" blog!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tea enjoyed 'making out' with Sir Ben

It's not every day you get to lock lips with Sir Ben Kingsley, and at the Hollywood premiere of new movie You Kill Me, Tea Leoni revealed all about how she got to "make out with a knight".

Sir Ben, who had filming commitments, couldn't make the screening of the dark comedy in which he plays an alcoholic hitman drying out on the west coast. During his recovery his character befriends a sharp-tongued woman (played by Tea) who eventually helps him to settle some old scores.

Speaking on the red carpet, Tea had nothing but praise for the absent leading man: "The thing about Sir Ben is he's perfect, he's enchanting and charming, professional and fun, and vulnerable."

"I mean I really have to say it was a joy working with him and you throw that accent in and, well..."

And Tea says she wasn't daunted by the actor's title: "People said that Ben liked to be called Sir Ben and that's not really true, he's quite casual about it."

"I insisted that I call him Sir Ben because it's not every day that you get to make out with a knight."

Tea's husband, X-Files actor David Duchovny, was unable to make the screening. Instead the couple's close friend, stand-up comedian Garry Shandling, was acting as her date for the night.

The Larry Sander's Show star couldn't resist joking: "I don't believe David gets jealous, I think I would be referred to as non-threatening."

during the premiere of the new movie YOU KILL ME, at the ArcLight Hollywood Cinema, on June 11, 2007 in Los Angeles