Those lips, those eyes… surprise! Behind the drop-dead gorgeous looks of Jessica Biel is the heart of a soldier who loves a good fight. Just don’t give her a steak knife.
In the weeks leading up to my conversation with Jessica Biel, the following dramas rocked young Hollywood: Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan had a tiff, which then escalated into a full-blown war when oil heir Brandon Davis issued the Lohan-lashing heard ’round the world. Christina Aguilera got into it with Mariah Carey about, well, something, and Mischa Barton took sides, to notable effect, in the Nicole Richie-Paris Hilton battle royale (Barton is Team Richie).
But Jessica Biel has no tiff–no history of them and no real prospects, either–and when asked about her lack of beefs with fellow celebrities, she laughs. “It’s not really in my personality. I’ll go out and dance adn have a drink, but I don’t get messed up in the drama. I’m also pretty busy. On most nights people are going out, I usually have a 6 a.m. call the next morning.”
Ten years into a career that began with 7th Heaven, Biel is one of the few young celebrities without some kind of scandal, feud or sex tape to call her own. “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine last year, Biel is more the anti-Paris Hilton, refusing to coast by on looks alone and choosing instead to work her ass off for every audition and part she’s ever scored. Even with three movies set for release in the next year, the unassuming 24-year-old actress places herself, ona fame scale of one to 10, on the lower end of the spectrum. “I’m probably a… four? I don’t know. I’m always thinking about how difficult it is to obtain the parts I want, and how I’m losing roles to all these other girls–Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson, Rachel McAdams. All those really, really talented women who are doing movies that I’d like to be doing.”
