While Jessica Biel may seem to have it all- hot boyfriend, successful career- the 29-year-old actress recently dished to Elle Magazine about the role that got away.
It’s a recent entrant into happy/sad love movie history and a chick flick favorite, and the film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks film The Notebook starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams (who also starred in sad love/time travel flick The Time Traveler’s Wife. ) The film made waves and became an instant classic, and Biel laments that although she tried out, she was unable to snag the role that made McAdams a rom-com mainstay.
Biel doesn’t gloss over her disappointment on losing the role to McAdams, and recounts a hectic audition with a little bit of regret:
“[ The Notebook ] was the one that I wanted so badly. I was in the middle of shooting ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ and I auditioned with Ryan Gosling in my trailer — covered in blood. [Director] Nick Cassavetes put me through the wringer in an interesting, excitingly creative way. But there’s a million that get away. We’re gluttons for punishment. It’s just rejection.”
Biel also spoke of plans to have kids- in the relatively distant future. The actress says that she’d like to be a mom someday, but she used to tease her own mother about whether or not she’d have them:
“To piss off my mom, I used to say, ‘I’m never having kids, and I’m going to be a fabulously rich old maid living in a house with cute butlers and dogs.’”
As to with whom, however, Biel was mum when asked specifically about Justin Timberlake, adding that a girl “doesn’t kiss and tell.”
