Playboy.com: With your sexy long hair in the movie, you look much different than with your shorter conservative coif on 24. Is this longer hair your real hair?
Elisha Cuthbert: This isn't real. [Indicating her hair extensions] These are real! [Indicating her chest]
PB: In The Girl Next Door, your character did porn. In 24 you were kidnapped by your boyfriend and tracked through the woods by a cougar. What is the craziest thing you've done in real life?
EC: Moving to L.A. at 17. That was a big step for me, because I'd been working in Canada for a long time, and there was no real reason to leave, except for something was telling me I should. It was scary, like starting over.
PB: Your character has at least two semi-nude scenes in the movie: in the window, stripping down to her panties for bed, and dropping her robe from behind in the porno movie-within-the-movie. Not to mention a striptease in the street. How did you explain The Girl Next Door to your family?
EC: I said to them, "It's a lot of things. First off, it's a teen comedy. It's about a teenager going through what every teenager goes through, I suppose. It's also reminiscent of what teen comedies were in the '80s. Like 16 Candles and Risky Business." My parents saw it when I was in Montreal doing voiceovers. At first my dad was really quiet, then his first reaction was, "Well, she didn't show everything."
PB: Did your Old School co-star Will Farrell -- who memorably streaked through town to re-live his college glory -- give you any advice before doing a nude scene of your own?
