(showing the clip of her where she is yelling at Bobby because he's just pretending
the whole stabbing thing never happened.
She walks out wearing very tall, pointy shoes and she looks like she's having trouble
walking in them. She sits down and they start talking.)
Martin: (about the shoes) Those are wildly, wildly sexy shoes.
Kelli: They're pretty crazy. They're hard to walk in, though, but you know, that doesn't
really matter. As long as they look good.
M: Yeah, look at that. And I made a mistake, I realize. It's your fourth season. (he said
earlier that it was her third.)
K: It's the fourth. Well, we were a half season the first season, so technically, it's like
three and a half.
M: It's the third and a half.
K: Yeah, yeah.
M: And congratulations on the show. It's an enormous success, isn't it? I mean,
beyond the emmys it just gets more popular and more popular.
K: Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
M: And you seem to be getting all the juicy, kind of storylines.
K: (laughs) Well, you know, it's because I'm sleeping with Bobby. No, that's not why,
of course, because I'm a good lawyer. Well, yeah David Kelley's writing for me really,
really well.
M: And do the other cast mates get a little upset?
K: No. No. I mean, it really alternates. I mean there's 8 of us, 8 regulars, and we each
get to sort of have a week off, and...
M: Well, you seem to be, you're getting stabbed, and you're having the affair with
Dylan...
K: I know, the drama. So much stuff is happening.
M: And so, David Kelley comes on the set, and I guess everybody sucks up to him,
right? No, because he's, they would come on and try to get on his good side.
K: Well, the first season, the first half season, he would come on set and everybody
would kind of know, and be quiet, y'know, "Here comes David," and then I would
hope I wouldn't mess up my opening arguments. It was a little intimidating. He still is,
he's a little bit of an enigma.
M: Well, I met him last year and he's very shy, very quiet..
K: Yeah, he's just, that's him.
M: And yet he makes Stephen King look like an underachiever.
K: (laughs)
M: It's like, fourteen scripts. How many shows does he have? I mean, he has..
K: We have 22, Ally McBeal has 22, so 44.
M: Yeah, and he does the, does he do every script?
K: He does about 80%.
M: That's unbelievable.
K: Yeah, he's a freak of nature. I swear there must be three of him around.
M: It's clearly a guy who.. and Michelle- he's married to Michelle Phieffer.
K: Yeah. Not bad, huh? The life. And he goes home at like, 7 at night. Yeah, he
doesn't work until midnight. You'd think he worked until midnight.
M: Yeah, you know why? Because he's got a rare thing in show business called talent.
K: Yeah.
M: I was reading about you, um, last night, and it's true. You're like the classic
Hollywood cliché. And I don't mean that negatively...
K: I'm scared.
M: No, because, your father is a plastic surgeon, and your mother is an actress. I
mean, that's kind of, perfect, isn't it?
K: Yeah, it's sort of the epitome of the Hollywood upbringing. The only thing that
would make it worse was if she was famous. Which she wasn't. So at least I got the,
working actress.
M: Working actress?
K: Yeah, that you didn't get the job all the time.
M: But your father.. did he work on big stars?
K: Yeah, he did.
M: Can you name them?
K: No. My dad, we'd watch TV, and he'd be like, 'Oh, yeah, I did her nose.' Y'know,
it's like, 'Oh, I did her breasts.'
M: Really?
K: Yeah. And he'd tell me stories about some rock star, which will remain nameless,
and he got cheek implants. And he would flinch, at the pain of getting stitches
removed. And my dad's like, I mean, the guy's got tattoos all over, and he's like,
'Didn't that hurt? Just this little thing is hurting you?' It's pretty- I used to work
summers there, and do insurance billing, oddly enough. And I used to spend my days
looking at the pre and post-op pictures to see what people actually had done.
M: That's gruesome, isn't it?
K: Yeah. I watched almost all of them.
M: Yeah, when I had this new chin done, at first I was like, well, I'm happy now. No,
it's, it's, I've never had a new chin. But so you grew up, as a wealthy girl?
K: Yeah. Yeah, my father did, very well.
M: In Beverly Hills?
K: I was very fortunate. I grew up in Bel-Air. Yeah, I had some pretty interesting
neighbors.
M: Yeah? Like, who were your neighbors?
K: Well, Sonny and Cher lived kitty corner from me.
M: The Bonos?
K: Yeah.
M: The real Sonny and Cher?
K: The real Sonny and Cher.
M: Were your neighbors?
K: Were my neighbors. And then they moved out, and Larry Flint moved in.
M: Larry Flint?
K: Yeah. He used to do centerfolds in his front yard. And my brother would get on the
roof, with his binoculars.
M: Is that true? On the roof?
K: Yeah, he'd charge admission. Y'know, for his friends.
M: Let's go back to, Cher lived beside a plastic surgeon.
K: Yeah, yeah.
M: I just didn't want that moment to go... the image of her coming over to borrow cup
of collogen.
K: (laughs)
M: No, and I say that with love. Because we'd love to book you, Cher. And you went
to highschool, at Bel-Air..
K: I went to Beverly Hills High.
M: Beverly Hills High? And I also read that you had a very famous classmate.
K: I did, yeah. I went to school with Monica.. Lewinsky.
M: Wow. Now, did you know her?
K: Well, you have to understand, I mean, it's highschool. It's the highschool dynamic.
I was a senior, she was a sophomore, it was that thing.
M: Oh, I see.
K: Y'know, I'd give her a ride home.
M: Oh, you did? So you knew her enough to say, 'Hi, Monica.'
K: Well, yeah, she was in the drama department. And we alternated, sometimes you
paint sets, sometimes you dress people, sometimes you'd act, and she was in the
costume department and I was one of the actors, in the play.
M: Did she seem to have a special aura then?
K: (sarcastically) Yeah, she'd sit in the car and say, 'I'm going to make political
history.'
M: I'm the girl voted most likely to sleep with the leader of the free world.
K: Exactly.
M: Well, first of all, I've never met Monica Lewinsky, but I heard she's the nicest girl
in the world. Can you imagine being in that situation?
K: No.
M: Where suddenly your personal life is unraveled. All you'd want to do is, it's beyond
that, I mean, on The Practice, you play a character, you'd like to just dye your hair
and, go visit your father.
K: Yeah, I guess. Possibly. Yeah.
M: The Practice is on Sunday nights.
K: Yeah.
M: On ABC.
K: Yes.
M: And that means, on Sunday nights, I'm always at home watching you on The
Practice.
K: Thank you.
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