Sunny Mabrey

Where you’ve seen her:
In the video for Limp Bizkit’s “Nookie,” and making her big screen debut in The New Guy.

Southern pride:
“I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I’m sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. ‘Do you have an outhouse?’ ‘Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?’ They think all Southerners don’t have computers and TV sets and that we’re all still living in 1862.”

Eh—the director must’ve felt encouraged:
“Being in front of the camera was like coming home. The first time I saw myself on the big screen, it was in a trailer for The New Guy, and I just started screaming.”

We’ll bring the popcorn:
“I’ve always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It’s fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone’s hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.”

December 2001 (#48)