Eliza Dushku
This Boy's Life (1993), Bring It On (2000), The New Guy
(2001), City By The Sea (2001)
Name: Eliza Dushku
Aka: Evil slayer Faith from Buffy the Vampire
Slayer
Otherwise Known As: Childhood DeNiro co-star
turned adult DeNiro co-star
On DeNiro 1: I was 11 when I did This Boy's Life.
I ran around and kicked him in the shins a lot.
On DeNiro 2: I've just done another movie (City
By The Sea) with him, and he's really sweet. We had this
fatherly vibe going on, like (adopts uncanny Noo Yawk
DeNiro rasp), "What kinda boys you datin' these days?"
On breaking into acting: I was dragged along
to my brother's audition. I fell on the steps outside,
got a bloody nose, started screaming and the casting director
said "Who's she?"
On This Boy's Life co-star Leonardo DiCaprio:
I was like, "Damn, this kid's easy on the eyes and
he's got his shit down!"
On child stardom: My mother never
let me get away with anything.
On her mother: When I was 14, my
mother handed me and my brother two round-trip tickets
to Beijing and told us not to come back until we had seen
eight Chinese cities.
On Buffy: I was set for college,
I had my dorm and everything, when the producers phoned.
On mad Buffy fans: They come up to
me on the street, absolutely livid, and go, "Why
are you trying to fuck with Buffy? Beatin' up her friends?"
I just have to run.
On fighting: I recently had a catfight
outside this bar. I almost broke this chick's nose.
On playing a junkie in City By The Sea:
I was shooting this high school comedy (The New Guy),
where I played a cheerleader, simultaneously. So I'd arrive
on set and the director would scream, "Get some fucking
dirt in your fingernails! Get a pimple! You're supposed
to be a junkie!"
On downtime: My mom and I recently
did a political, social and economic study of women in
post-apartheid South Africa. We learned a lot.
On tonight: I've got some babysitting
to do, and my honey to kiss.
On 'my honey': Not a chance! I'm not answering
anything about my honey! No way!
