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Calgary Sun - September 21st 1998
"Taken to Gayheart" By Louis B. Hobson

Rebecca Gayheart just debunked that enduring Hollywood urban legend that actresses don't greet the day before noon. When Gayheart called from her Los Angeles home at 8 a.m., she'd already been doing interviews for an hour.

"I'm pleased to say I'm too busy these days to sleep in. I'm doing interviews for Urban Legend in the mornings and then rehearsing for the rest of the day," explained Gayheart, who opens next month opposite Rhea Perlman in the L.A. premier of the hit Broadway play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

In the teen horror film Urban Legends, opening Friday, Gayheart plays a college student and the potential victim of a serial killer who dispatches his victims in the manner of famous urban legends.

That means babysitters had better watch out when the phone rings and anyone driving down a lonely road had better not look in the back seat of their car.

Last year, Gayheart was one of the few college students who survived the slaughter in Scream 2.

"In Scream 2, I was basically the comic relief. I was an obnoxious sorority girl. The Scream movies are spoofs of the teen slasher movies. Urban Legends is horror-suspense. This time the thrills are for real."

Making Urban Legends forced Gayheart to face the one irrational urban legend fear she had.

"When I was a preschooler, friends at school said they had heard that the kid Mikey on the TV commercials had exploded because he washed down a box of Pop Rocks with a bottle of Pepsi.

"My best friend dared me to try it but I was too frightened. In the movie, my character does try this lethal combination."

Gayheart is not at liberty to reveal what happens when her character combines Pop Rocks and Pepsi.

Urban Legends turned out to be a scary project but not because of the material.

"(Co-stars) Jared (Leto), Joshua (Jackson) and Michael (Rosenbaum) spent most of their energy trying to scare us girls. They'd hide behind doors and jump out or phone us and make weird noises

"After a while, it makes you really paranoid of every noise and every sudden movement."

When Urban Legends finished filming in Toronto last year, Gayheart barely had time to unpack and repack her suitcases before heading off to South Africa to film Hangman's Daughter, the prequel to Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk to Dawn.

"I play a young Christian missionary who gets bitten by a vampire and turns into a really nasty bloodsucker."

For Gayheart, making the movie was nothing compared to being in Africa.

"I went on a safari and it was astonishing. When you're out there, you realize just how insignificant we really are. I can hardly wait to return to Africa on my own for an extended vacation."

For someone born and raised in Pinetop, Kentucky, Gayheart says she always knew she wanted to be an actress.

"I knew there would be absolutely no opportunities if I stayed in Pinetop, so at 15 I left home and moved to New York. I waited on tables, found myself an agent, got some modelling work and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute."

Gayheart's big break came when she was 17. She was chosen to be the Noxzema Girl.

"I made money and it got me in to auditions. The following year, I was cast as the bad girl Hanna Mayberry on the (now defunct) soap opera Loving."

After 18 months on Loving, Gayheart relocated to L.A. It was a big move that paid off big time. In a few months, she was starring in the NBC miniseries Invasion which led to a recurring role on the short-lived Earth 2 and a 10-episode stint on Beverly Hills 90210 playing Luke Perry's ill-fated wife.

"Beverly Hills 90210 opened the doors for feature films. I got to play the girl who tries to seduce Tim Robbins in a hotel elevator in Nothing To Lose.

"Tim is one of the tallest people I've ever met. They had to put me in really high high-heels. I almost got whiplash trying to kiss him."

Then came roles in the independent films Somebody is Waiting with Natassja Kinski, Hairshirt with Neve Campbell and Jawbreaker with Pam Grier, all of which are scheduled for release before the end of the year.

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