TV GUIDE's RISING STAR
Issue 6/13/98
Don't be deceived by those dimples. Casting directors sure aren't. Eddie Cibrian, 25,
has consistently played characters who belie his cuddly, wholesome facade. On
NBC's Sunset Beach, he's sly two-timer Cole Deschanel; this fall he'll be seen as an
erotic masseur who rubs Holly Hunter the right way in the big-screen comedy "Living
Out Loud," and in the title role of the CBS mafia movie The Hitman (producer-costar
Chuck Norris has already signed him for two sequels). If offers keep pouring in, won't
SB become an albatross? "Sure, this could backfire, and I'll be going, 'Why the hell did
I sign that contract?'" says Cibrian. "But I should be so lucky; it's what I'd call a
first-class problem."
FAST EDDIE
October 1998 - Latina Magazine
He enters the room wearing an old,
loose-fitting white T-shirt, faded jeans, and a
pair of yellow-tinted sunglasses. He could be
any one of the numerous wanna-be models
and actors that make up the population of
Los Angeles, but he's not. He's 25-year-old
Eddie Cibrian, and these days, he's the
hottest thing steaming up NBC's Sunset
Beach.
As ex-jewel thief Cole Deschanel, Cibrian has
been breaking hearts on the daytime soap
since early last year. And come November,
he'll have a new legion of fans. Cibrian will be
revealing more than his trademark dimpled
grin in his first film endeavor, Living Out Loud. In the film, he plays the
erotic masseur who Holly Hunter's character calls after reading his newspaper
ad.
The word in New Line Cinema's back lot is that Cibrian's sensuous scene has
left audiences literally screaming for more. "I've never played a role like that
before," he jokes. "It's a small part, but hopefully it will lead to bigger things."
One of those "bigger things" may well be The Hit Man: Bound By Honor,
a made-for-TV movie produced by brothers Chuck and Aaron Norris, which
CBS plans to air during the November sweeps. Cibrian recently completed
filming and signed on to do two sequels as well. In a sharp change of pace,
he stars as a man who infiltrates the mob to avenge the death of his parents.
"Oh, I'm Mr. Action in that thing!" he says with a hearty laugh. "I got to play
with guns and all that."
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