OC WEEKLY: Did you volunteer to play the female role in the video for "Everlong"
or did you guys draw straws?
TAYLOR HAWKINS: Iwas coerced into it. They decided if one of the guy was going
to it, I'd make the prettiest girl.
OC: Was it your first time cross-dressing?
TH: I'd done it a couple of Halloweens before, but it's not like I sit around at home
in women's clothing. I don 't know how you [women] do it-the clothes are really
uncomfortable, pantyhose and bras and stuff. I don 't know how you put on lipstick
and drink beer without it coming off or getting allover the place. It' s really
high-maintenance to look beautiful.
OC: So you came away with a new perspective or a new appreciation?
TH: Yeah. I mean, whenever I meet a model always think there are just regular girls
on the street who look hotter than that. You have to be kind of weird looking to be
a model.
OC: And even then, they never really look that way; it's all done with lighting,
camera angles, air brushing...
TH: Yeah, that's why you should never read things like Vogue. It's misleading. "Good
news for bad legs" and stuff. It's making you think that you think that you 're not
working as hard as you should be, like you need to be perfect. That' s totally false.
No woman is perfect. I think girls with big noses are prettier: they have more character.