Maria Menounos
So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.Collection: Amazing
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
You have to take control of your own career.
We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.
Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.
There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.
The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.
The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.
If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.
I think Channel One was very integral in my career.
I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.
I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.
I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.