Noel Crane at all times was once a sweetheart! Keri Russell’s notorious short haircut on Felicity will have received combined reactions, however one person on set was once fascinated with it — Scott Foley.
“I at all times loved and thought she seemed amazing,” the Scandal actor, 45, completely tells Us Weekly. “I believed it was the sort of nice story point for the display. There’s no person who’s short of more of a change than a freshman, sophomore lady or particular person looking for themselves. I believed Keri looked so beautiful with that brief hair.”
Russell’s character chopped off her blonde locks forward of season 2. Her new glance was once so dramatic that many blamed the lower for the display’s drop in ratings and the WB created a new rule: No drastic haircuts with out permission.
Unlike Foley, Scott Speedman, who played Ben Covington on the teenager drama, was shocked through Russell’s shorter curls. “We have been actually relationship at the time, and I’d been this sort of crisis of a boyfriend up until then,” the 44-year-old mentioned all through a joint interview with Russell, 41, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in May. “And I knew I needed to put on a just right display when I was going to peer her new haircut. And I was like, ‘Come on, guy, you gotta convey it house. You gotta do it.’ And I set to work, and he or she grew to become around the nook, and my face sort of iced up in a half panic, half smile state of affairs… it used to be a chia head sort of vibe to it.”
Felicity ran for 4 seasons from 1998 to 2002. Foley in spite of everything snagged the function of Noel after auditioning for creator J.J. Abrams several occasions.
“That’s probably the one I take note the most obviously as a result of I went in and skim for it a couple of part dozen instances. I by no means read for Noel. I used to be all the time up for the part of Ben, that’s who I used to be at the beginning forged for, so I spent two or 3 days as Ben before they could in finding anyone to play Noel,” Foley, who just lately partnered with Propel Co:Labs Fitness Festival, tells Us. “Then J.J. came and requested me to a choose, He said, ‘We can’t to find anyone to play Noel, you can play each characters equally neatly. We simply discovered someone to play Ben, do you assume you need to play Noel?’”
“I know J.J. Abrams, he’s the famous person we all know now, however I knew there was one thing particular about him, so I luckily hopped into the position of Noel,” he provides. “That was a very attention-grabbing audition process because I met with J.J. and all the other people from the WB so again and again and went thru so many readings. It used to be a truly difficult role to land.”
More lately, Foley has been coming into shape for the 7th and ultimate season of Scandal. He attended the Propel Co:Labs Fitness Festival in L.A. over the weekend, which featured workout routines with superstar trainers corresponding to Gunnar Peterson.
“This year we’re simplest two episodes in and I’ve needed Gunnar to assist me get are compatible for them. Last 12 months was once a quite non-shirtless year for me, at Forty five years outdated I used to be more than pleased about, however this year they’re truly dialing all of it up. I’m very grateful to have him on my workforce,” the actor tells Us. “Gunnar is excellent. [We do] plenty of shoulder and arms, cardio circuit training, period training. Shooting Scandal and my family truly now takes up maximum of my time. I've a quad rep in my space, so I’m doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any form of elementary power actions I can do at home.”
For extra, learn the rest of his Q&A in our Now and Then collection:
US: Do you think Felicity made the right choice when she went with Ben?
SF: Absolutely, that used to be evidently the right choice for her!
US: What was your maximum embarrassing scene or storyline?
SF: Oh God, there was once a storyline in season Three or Four where Noel form of went off the deep finish and assumed his adjust ego of Leon, which is Noel spelled backwards. They had on this extraordinary frosted tip headpiece. It used to be a abnormal difficult thing for me to dive into, but we had a large number of fun with it.
Us: Did you're taking anything from set?
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SF: I don’t think I did. I've — in between the first and the second season there was this Ben or Noel question and the WB put out one of those Magic 8-Balls that either mentioned ‘Ben or Noel.’ I've that. There was once an episode where Felicity used to be making lifestyles choices in line with a Magic 8-Ball, however not anything else I more than likely will have to have!
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