Although Ali Wentworth’s character, Anne – Ron Livingston’s ex-girlfriend in the movie, wasn’t a huge role, she is still very memorable for being the big (bleep). However, in real life, she is sweet as can be.Even though many fans of the movie recognize Wentworth all the time, she gets more support from her appearance on “Seinfeld” in the “Soup Nazi” episode. She said she sees more residual payments from that one episode than she does from “Office Space.” Pretty interesting, huh?
Anyway, Wentworth was a blast, and yet another positive part of the great “Office Space” cult following. Rock on!
So, what have you been up to? Have you been doing a lot of acting?
You know, I’ll tell you, I predominantly live in Washington, D.C. because my husband does his show from here. I did a talk show called “Living it up with Ali and Jack” for CBS and that got cancelled last year and I was pregnant, so I took some time off. And it’s just now that I started looking into things that I can do without taking me away for too long.
Yeah, that’s got to be difficult – balancing a family while trying to still be a part of Hollywood.
Exactly. It’s hard, cause it’s stuff that is in L.A. like a TV show. Um, ah, so, I would like to do an independent or something and I just started writing a movie, but basically, to answer your question, I have just been being a mommy.
Has that transition been tough?
It would have been tough theoretically, but when you actually have the children you are like I love these kids, but if you would have told me that I would have had kids and had to take a year off, I would have asked you if you were crazy. It does help to love your offspring (laughs).
(Laughs) With your husband working out of D.C., does having a celebrity family work for you guys a little better than, um, Ben Affleck and all his women (laughs)?
(Laughs) Washington is a small town in comparison to L.A., so it does make it a little easier. I don’t think I have worn mascara in the last year.
That’s awesome.
You know, I’m not going to take a role in L.A. to be a love interest on some TV show. Are you kidding me? I would have to be single (laughs). My husband is not going to be OK with me saying that I am going to L.A. for a few years and leaving you with the kids (laughs), and I will probably be dating, but I still love you.
With “Office Space” you didn’t have one of those typecast roles where all people think of you as is a character from the movie.
God, I hope not. I was only it for two seconds (laughs).
(Laughs) But, truthfully, a lot of actors do get grouped into their one cult movie role. And for you, you get to be a part of a movie with such a great following without being forever grouped.
Yeah, I mean, I am even amazed that people recognize me from “Office Space” at all. I was in it for like a second and my hair was dark. At the time, Jennifer Aniston was really blonde, so they decided to make my hair dark.
You were hotter anyway.
(Laughs) Thanks. I actually had a lot more scenes with Ron (Livingston) in the movie, but they were cut. Ultimately Mike Judge’s first cut of the film was really long, so, my scenes were the first to go. Had my scenes stayed in, who knows if I would have been typecast.
How long did you spend in Austin shooting?
Austin, God, I was there for like two weeks. In the script, the girlfriend had a lot of scenes in the beginning, but there were a lot of scenes with her yelling at him. There was once scene that I did with Ron Livingston where we are running on a track where I am telling him, as a projection of the future, where I want the relationship to go.
Oh, that’s funny.
There were kinds of scenes like that, but you did get the sense that she was a (bleep) without seeing them.
Let’s get down to the truth of the matter. When you were off camera at the filming of “Office Space” you had a thing for Milton, didn’t you?Silence Well, um, that’s interesting.
Naw, that’s a joke.
(Laughs) (Laughs again)
I was reading way too much into that question (laughs). I thought you knew something that I didn’t (laughs).
But seriously, Milton is a much better looking guy than Ron Livingston. Isn’t he?
Um, wow, I don’t know. Maybe.
No. Not at all.
I guess everyone has an opinion (laughs).
No, I certainly don’t think so.
(Laughs)
That is the most disgusting looking man, the way they made Stephen Root look.
(Laughs) I know. I know. Gary Cole and Mike Judge would walk around the set all the time using that voice. Like they couldn’t stop.
It must have been a nut house.
It was seriously a great time.
Nick Powills can be reached at SayWhatPOWILLS@aol.com
Photos courtesy of Ali Wentworth and 20th Century Fox
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