INTERVIEW: COLIN EGGLESFIELD ON "SOMETHING BORROWED"

Colin Egglesfield

Colin Egglesfield might be familiar to many of you for his Television work on series like ABC's All My Children or The CW Network's Melrose Place, but he also is a burgeoning Film Star.  Sitting down to chat with me at his Yorkville Hotel on the Toronto stop-off of his Press Tour for Rom-Com Something Borrowed, the first thing he noticed when walking in the room was the temperature. "Wow, it's freezing in here", prompting his Publicist to adjust the temperature on the Thermostat of the Kitchen-equipped Suite.  Dressed in a gray Blazer and a Black Button-down (collar undone), his piercing blue eyes instantly ring of a strange familiarity.  A younger Tom Cruise, perhaps?  You bet.

One might wonder how it is that an Actor relatively unknown to Moviegoers had caught the attention of Executive Producers Molly Smith (P.S. I Love You) and Oscar-winning Hilary Swank, together looking to adapt Emily Giffin's New York Times Best Selling Novel.  Egglesfield revealed that Casting for the Luke Greenfield (The Girl Next Door) project was a one-month process. Despite Studio Executives being reluctant initially to give the Leading Role of the $40 million Film to an Actor unfamiliar, it partly was Swank's insistence which got him the coveted role of Dex over seven other Actors in-contention.  "Who is this guy?", Swank demanded to know after seeing Egglesfield's initial Casting Tape. The role of Dex has the Actor playing a Man torn between his love for soon-to-be Wife Darcy (Kate Hudson) and her Best Friend Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin).

Egglesfield tells me about his experience working with A-listers Hudson and Goodwin and how their approaches vary somewhat.  After getting to know each other during initial Chemistry Tests, both he and Goodwin had one week to get to know each other over Dinners prior to Filming. "There was a lot of relationship talk between us and I think we had a good  understanding of one another as our personalities are quite similar", he says.  Hudson he recalls, "just showed up and asked 'So what are we doing?'.  She is lots of fun and spontaneous. For her I had to wear my Improv Hat in order to make our scenes as real as possible.".