Interview with Jessica Morris and Melissa Archer

SOW: What were your first impressions of each other?

Jessica Morris: She seemed like a down-to-earth,nice person.
Melissa Archer: Jess and I clicked pretty quick.(When I first started the show)a bunch of people went out to eat, and Jessica sat next to me. We started talking, and the next thing you know, we went up to my room and talked all night.
JM: You call it talk? I'm just kidding.

SOW: Sounds like a classic romance.

MA: Then we started to hang out all the time.

SOW: What did you talk about that night?

MA: Boys,boys,shopping,boys and work.
JM: Our similar experience with bad boys. Our life stories are similar. Personalities, we're more opposite.
MA: Oh, yeah, totally different.
JM: She's more outgoing.
MA: Jessica's quiet. She likes to feel things out. I pretend like I've taken some sort of speed pill. I don't take speed, just so you know.
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?

SOW: So you guys work together and play together. Do you ever get sick of each other?
MA: The funny thing is, at work we dont see each other that much. We have some scenes...but we don't see each other as much as we do outside work.
JM: So we get home from work and call each other and talk about our days. We're on the phone for hours.
MA: Talking about work (laughs)

SOW: Do you share a dressing room?

No. We're across the hall from each other though.
JM: That may be a bit much. We live right by each other.
MA: Practically roomies.

BEST AND WORST

SOW: What are your best and worst traits-and each other's?

JM: I work hard, and I always want things to be better each time. The worst thing is probably the same thing: I'm hard on myself and dwell on what I did wrong.
MA: My best is I'm a go-getter. If I have a goal, I'll go after it 100 percent. That's also a bad trait: I need to learn when enough is enough

SOW: What about in each other?

MA: I think he best trait is...great hair!(laughs). She's a good listener. When you need to talk, she's there. Worst trait...I don't know I'm trying to think. JM: I have a bad temper.
MA: Yes. Actually, best trait is that she's sensitive, but her worst trait is that she's sensitive. It's good because she cares about other people, but she can aslo get hurt. (Turning to Archer) One of the best things about you is that you're so down-to-earth and out-going. There's no pretense. And the worst thing is that some people take that the wrong way. They don't appreciate that. Some people think you have to act a certain way at a certain time, which is stupid.

FUN AND GAMES

SOW: What do you do for fun?

MA: We eat out a lot.
JM: That's the best thing about New York to me: all the different restaurants. I love eating more than anyone you'll ever meet.
MA: When I first moved here, I wentto karaoke place every night. I barely go anymore because it's so exhausting.
JM: She got me into it for a while; I need encouragement to get up there. I go to a lot of movies and play Internet backgammon and casino games a lot. Aren't we fun? (laughs)
MA: Jeopardy! 2003, Wheel of Fortune 2003, solitaire, spider solitaire, Alchemy.
JM: Alchemly is addicting. I'm like one of those cartoon characters with hypnotized eyes spiraling. MA: There's something about getting on your computer and doing that all day.
JM: Letting your brain just zone out after all those lines that you have to memorize.

GOOD GIRL/BAD GIRL

SOW: Jen is now being portrayed as the bad girl and Natalie is the good girl, but Jen would probably disagree. What do you think, Jssica?

JM: I don't think either one of us is a stereotype. oth characters have good hearts. They just want to be happy, nd they're trying to get that happiness any way they can. Jen is the same person she always was. She was vry sweet with Cristian, because they were in love and happy, so she had no rason to fight for anything. But when things went wrong...

SOW: Doesn't seem like the characters have switched personalities?

JM: I can see how you might say that, but both of our characters are changing and developing. It has nothing to do with the other. I don't see Natalie as being howJen used to be.
MA: I have to agree. What Jen is doing is not te same way Natalie did things. It's similar, ut there are different reasons behind it.

REBEL YELL

SOW: Who is the bad girl in real life?

MA: Growing up, I always had to do everything righ. If I got in trouble, ll you'd have to do is look at me and I would cry in my room all day. JM: I always liked to do the right thing to- up intil high school. Then it went downhill.
MA: Yeah, in high school I was like "I'm done being good!" JM: I'be always had an attitude, wanted things my way. (laughs)

SOW: Care to share any rebellious stories?

MA: Not anything I'dwant to say... (both laugh)

SOW: Do you know each others stories?

MA: Oh, yeah.

KISSING DAVID FUMERO

SOW: Did you know who David Fumero (Cristian) was before you started on the show? Did your friends say, "Oh, you're so lucky. You get to work with him"?

JM: No. His friends were telling him, "Oh, my God. id you hear about this girl Jessica Morris? You get to kiss her at the audition!" (laughs)
MA: I remember seeing him when I started watching to catch up with everything, and I thought he was really, reallyattractive. I'm not saying I don't think he is now. Buthe's a nice guy. All theguy tere are: Nathaniel Marston, (Al), John-Paul, (Rex)....You don't think about making out with them, because you do what you do for the moment and then it's over with.
JM: And none of them are unattractive, so it's not very hard. It helps.

SOW:Is it strange you kiss the same guy at work?

JM: We're all kissing each other. We might as well all have a group kiss. (laughs)

SEX AND THE CITY

SOW: Are you dating anybody?

JM: No one special. We're both focused on our work right now.
MA: If it happens, great if somone knocks me upside the head, I'm cool. But if they really knock me upside the head, then I might have to say no. I'm not into the whole caveman thing.

SOW: Any nightmare dates?

JM: I've had a couple. One guy, I really think, was Dracula. I went to meet him and he had a long black cape on. That freaked me out. I was trying to hide my neck. I decided that moment if I saw him again I was going to wear a turtleneck.
MA: I remember that guy. I'm trying to think back to the last time I had a date...

THE PERFECT DATE

MA: When I worked at Nordstroms, I bought myself a dress to go to the opera with a dat. That dress still sits in my coset unused. I want a gy t tak me to the opera! And I want to use that dress. I will hopefully still fit in it.
JM: I dont care about gettig dressed up. I'd rather be comfortable. Someone to go to a movie with. I want to kiss in the rain.
MA: Me, too. And not care. Be soaking wet.
JM: I want to hve a great dinnr, and thengo outside and it's raining, and he grabs you and you kiss. Then yu go have coffee and you talk for hours.

SOW: Sounds a lot like your first date- but with kissing.