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The Rosie O' Donnel Show
January 13, 1999
Rosie: Please welcome Freddie Prinze Jr.
[Freddie comes out with a towel around his neck and puts it around the woman who is exercising shoulders]
Rosie: Hello
Freddie: Hello
Rosie: Very nice to meet you
Freddie: Very nice to meet you too
Rosie: How's it going?
Freddie: It's going good. You look good.
Rosie: Well, Thank you. You look good your self.
Freddie: I'm wrinkled
Rosie: That's the hip young actor look. Now, have I met you before?
Freddie: No, but I saw you in Los Angeles at Jerry's Famous Deli 'cause I always go there because they don't have an arcade close to my house and you were playing Mortal Kombat and I thought you were the coolest chick in the world. You were getting fatalities and everything. I wanted to come over and play but I was like nah she's probably trying to do her thing and I'm not that good at Mortal Kombat.
Rosie: I'm very good at Mortal Kombat. You should see me on the old Space Invaders game. You're too young to remember.
Freddie: No, I had that on Atari
Rosie: What about Asteroid?
Freddie: I love Asteroid
Rosie: Next time I'm in LA. Me and you, Jerry's Deli. We'll take a camera crew.
Freddie: OK
[They hi-five]
Rosie: Everybody know your dad was the amazing Freddie Prinze. He died when you were just a baby right?
Freddie: Yeah, 10 mos. old.
Rosie: Do you get to watch the videos of him and does that give you a sense of who he was?
Freddie: Actually it's very hard to get footage of him, but I have seen a little bit and it does give you a sense of who he was but mainly you like stories, people tell you stories and you grab onto their memories and make them a part of you, With the good and the bad stuff, of course. He was a practical joker. Like my Uncle Ron was his manager, This the funniest stories I ever heard about my dad. My mom and dad were young. He was like 20 and she was like 23 and they were on an airplane and my uncle was like the adult. Well, he would always fall asleep and he would snore really, really loud ( he gestured with his mouth open). Now he's going to be mad at me. My dad he took a grape and dropped in his mouth and he choked on it and my mom and dad didn't even try and help him, they were just laughing. He was like dying. But I prank like him only on sets. It's the only place you can get away with it. On "She's All That." It's all young people . So, I got to pull pranks.
Rosie: What kind of stuff did you do?
Freddie: Dulay Hill, who plays my friend Preston. everybody after they take the makeup off they put a towel around your face to open the pores and he was talking to his make-up artist and he can't see me so I take the shaving cream (motioning with the mug) this is his mouth and I go (makes foaming noises) Nobody got me though. I got everybody.
Rosie: I pulled pranks on "League of their Own". So to get me back when I was on the set. I had this 8x10 trailer and they emptied it and put everything in the middle of the parking lot.
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Rosie: Back with Freddie Prinze Jr. Who is dating the beautiful and talented Kimberley McCullough. (she holds up a picture of them at the 54 premiere) She's plays Robin on General Hospital.Now I hear from all the magazines you're a good cook.
Freddie: Yeah. I'm a real good cook. I cook for Kimberly all the time. I love cooking.
Rosie: What's your best dish?
Freddie: I make fish really good. Fish and pasta. But I make Sea Bass really good.
Rosie: You make Chilean Sea Bass?
Freddie: Yeah, that's my girls' favorite food, I make it all the time.
Rosie: This movie you're in you play a high school stud,. Were you a stud?
Freddie: No, I was very much like the other character in this movie Lanie. I was considered nerdy and very strange. I would go out on the soccer field and act out these fantasies that took the best of me. Kids would watch me and go : What are you doing? Get outta here jerk. I was nerdy. No girls liked me. I had like 80 girlfriends and they all dumped me in like 3 days. The Winter Ball which is like a Sadie Hawkins Dance where the girls ask the guys and I got dumped at the dance and I had no ride home.
Rosie: Are you kidding?
Freddie: Yes, her name is Rebecca.
Rosie: What did she get in the car and leave?
Freddie: We got in this argument cause she was dancing with another guy and so I started dancing with another girl cause it's high school and you do that alot. We made up and I said I'm glad we could work things like this out and she was like: Nah, I don't think so we should break up and I had no ride home. I had to wait till she was ready to go. She was dancing with guys I know.
Rosie: Did her friends know you got dumped at the dance?
Freddie: Yes, she confirmed it with them before she did it.
Rosie: That's bad
Freddie: I was such a dork in high school
Rosie: Were you an athlete.
Freddie: No, I was the worst. I tried out for the football team and the quarterback threw me a pass I only weighed like 2 pds. and I caught it and it knocked me down. The coach came over to me and said: MI don't think you should come by tomorrow and I cried. It was bad. I scored a goal on my own team in soccer. I cant believe--all these--- the whole other team came up and said : You're the best player on our team, man.
Rosie: You mean you scored a goal on their goal?
Freddie: In my own goal. It was 1-0. We lost the game. I scored the only goal.
Rosie: Are you enjoying all the attention you're getting as a heartthrob?
Freddie: People I meet on the street are cool to me. They give me alot of love hugs and handshakes. Only like minor things happen. Like one time I was in the airport and this girl came up and was like: Were you in "Scream"? I was like it was "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and she was like Oh I mean that one. I was signing her autograph when her friend runs by and steals my sandwich, I took one bite. She was like : Oh my god you're you and she grabbed my sandwich and ran away.
Rosie: Really?
Freddie: I swear
Rosie: Did you always want to be an actor?
Freddie: No, It kinda happened. I grew up in New Mexico and when I was younger I would act out fantasies and kids thought I was weird but I never planned on it until out of necessity I had to go out and get a job.
Rosie: Freddie--
Freddie: I know, I know
Rosie: You are adorable.
Freddie: Thank you
Rosie: You are a cutie patootie. I wish you had come up to me in Jerry's.
Freddie: I would have, but I thought you beat me.
Rosie: Congratulations on the movie "She's All That". It comes out January 29th. Which is not this Friday but next Friday. Anytime you want to come back
Freddie: Thank you so much.
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