Alyson Hannigan

Transcribed by moi this very morning, from the September issue (yes, it’s on the shelves already, and we’re on the 3rd of August! Go figure!) of Total Film. (UK film magazine for those in the states). Enjoy, it’s probably gonna take bloody long enough.......Film. (UK film magazine for those in the states). Enjoy, it’s probably gonna take bloody long enough.......

TF: What was the last film you saw in the cinema?

AH: I just saw the most amazing movie about birds called Winged Migration. It’s just phenomenal. It should win any and every award it can because the cinematography was totally incredible. I felt like i was flying.

TF: Tell us teh stupidist rumour you’ve ever heard about yourself.

AH: I heard that I was dead once. That was a rumour on the internet, then it got to a news radio station and they called my agent. Nobody could get in touch with me because my pager had died - ironically - and I was out by myself shopping. The news station wa slike:"Well, we’re just going to run this story even if we can’t verify it’s true!" That’s great. It freaked a lot of my friends out. People went over to my house and saw my dogs and were breaking down going: [puts on weepy voice] "Who’s going to take care of the dogs?" It was very sad. For them. I was fine, I was at the bookstore...

TF: What’s the strangest place you’v ever seen your own image?

AH: Oh, man. It was when my fiance [actor Alexis Denisof] and I wsere on a road trip, right after the second American Pie movie. We were in the middle of the mountains somewhereat this tiny gas station and we were looking for some snacks. I saw my picture on a frickin’ beef jerky box. Yeah. It was some sort of promotion that I knew nothing about for Slim Jims. In the picture I was standing there in my band-camp outfit with a flute. I’m like:"That is not okay. How is it possible I can be promoting these slaughtered animals without my approval?" I think we kinda signed away all our rights. It was very odd.

TF: Who did you have on your bedroom wall as a kid?

AH: Beatles posters - John Lennon in particular. I had some James Dean. I was very into dead people. [Pauses] Not that the rest of teh Beatles were dead. But John was dead...Early on, before my teen days, I had Michael Jackson and Ricky Schroder.

TF: When did you last use public transport?

AH: Probably when I was in England last. So, three weeks ago in London when I used the tube. My friend is obsessed with the tube. If he meets someone from Engalnd, he’s like: "Oh, what tube stop do you live near?"

TF: What’s your favourite Steve Guttenberg movie?

AH: Three Men and a Baby. I love that. It was sweet and funny and there’s just something about men with babies that really gets me...

TF: You must own lots of Anne Geddes’ [photographer who takes loads of ’whimisical’ baby pics] calendars, then...

AH: Yeah, I can appreciate a good-looking black-and-white naked man holding a naked man. Naked buff man!

TF: Name a book you’ve read more than three times.

AH: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss. It was a teenage thing [laughs].

TF: Have you ever seen a ghost?

AH: I have a ghost in my house! I saw him a couple of months ago. I don’t think he died there because there’s a law in LA that when you buy a house, if somebody died there, they have to dislose that. So I don’t know why he’s there. But he’s very friendly. My friend saw him forst one night. She said: "I don’t mean to alarm you but I just saw a man follow us out of the house." And I said: "Well, at least he’s gentlemanly, he let us go first." But later that night, I saw this silhouette of a man standing in the bathroom doorway. I was like: "Sweetie, what are you doing?" I thought it was Alexis. But then I looked and Alexis was asleep next to me. I’d love to get his name. I thinking of putting alittle chalk board where I think he lives to see if he will write his name down.

TF: Are you a cat person or a dog person?

AH: I’m both. I’m completely both.

TF: Denis Leary told us he prefers dogs because you have rescue dogs. Not rescue cats or birds.

AH: Well, I’ve heard that teh coast guard has been training pigeons to spot people that are drowning or lost at sea. So there goes teh bird theory. And once he see’s Winged Migration, he’ll take that comment back.

TF: What’s your favourite smell?

AH: Cookies. Baking cookies.

TF: And your favourite cheese?

AH: Gruyere. But it has to be melted on soup, it’s good on French onion soup. And it depends on what teh situation is. Mozzarella for pizza but’s goats cheese is nice too. I’m a big cheese fan.

TF: You have a time machine. Forwards or backwards?

AH: Probably into the past. I think I might go all the way back to see how things started. To get more clarification. Hang out with dinosaurs, see what teh real situation was like.

TF: You can turn invisible. Describe your first act.

AH: I would go into the White House and find out what goes on behind closed doors.

TF: Tell us your best joke.

AH: I do love Engalnd and don’t want to be booted out when I come over again. Oh...It’ stough to think of clean jokes...I’ll tell you my dirty joke: how do you get a dog to stop humping your leg? Pick him up and suck him off! Ha, ha! I’m never going to be allowed in England again. the Queen will ban me...