COSMOPOLITAN
All About Men
Summer 2000
Freddie Prinze, Jr. tells us who he's in upendo with this summer.
Cosmo: So are wewe the typical Pisces, wewe can't make up your mind?
Freddie Prinze, Jr.: No, I'm very laid back. I'm just cooled out. Pretty much everything is cool with me. If somebody says, 'You want to eat Japanese chakula now?' I'm like, 'Yeah, sure.' And I really want to. Somebody says, 'You want steak?' I'm like, 'Oh, that's cool.' I go with the flow and pretty much remain cool.
C: Do wewe like food?
FPJ: I upendo food. My inayopendelewa thing to do in the world is eat. Absolutely.
C: What foods do wewe like?
FPJ: Everything. If it doesn't eat me first, I'll eat it. Japanese chakula is my favorite, and steak. I upendo taking a woman to dinner, and I upendo watching her enjoy her food. And I upendo the way girls look in restaurants — lighting and candles, and the way women hold their silverware and the way they chew their food. It's just a very sexy thing to me, and I've always liked it. I upendo going out. Me and my girlfriend [Sarah Michelle Gellar] go out all the time. I upendo it.
C: Do wewe get dressed up?
FPJ: No. I'll put on a nice sweater and slacks. au if we go somewhere else I'll wear a T-shirt and jeans. It depends. It's zaidi about her than it is me. I'm looking at her probably a lot more. I stare way too much. I can't help it.
C: What's the most romantic thing you've ever done for someone?
FPJ: I like being romantic, but I don't know if there's a most romantic thing. Everything I do with my girl and with my other girlfriends, I try to be romantic. I like romance a lot, I like passion a lot. I like uandishi to them about how I feel about them and how they make me feel. And I want to let them know how special they are. And I'm not always good at verbally communicating that, so I really enjoy uandishi it down and then kind of being that way because it's as honest as I can possibly be.
C: What's the worst thing a girl can do on a tarehe with you?
FPJ: The worst thing... not enjoy the restaurant. Not like what we got. 'Cause I try to go to places that I know are really good. And if we don't like the same food, then that can be a serious problem. I went on a tarehe with a girl and I took her to get sushi. She wasn't gonna eat it. That was the last date. 'Cause that's my inayopendelewa food.
C: What would a girl have to do to get your attention?
FPJ: They'd just have to be special. There are some women that just shine when wewe look at 'em and make your eyes kind of well up, and wewe get so filled with so many different thoughts and emotions wewe don't know what to do. wewe don't know if you're gonna cry au you're gonna laugh au vomit.
C: What's the craziest thing wewe ever did to get a girl's attention?
FPJ: When I was a little kid, we played boys chase girls and girls chase boys, and I was really, really fast, so it was easy for me to catch 'em. The girls were really slow. And all the guys, for some reason — cause they're idiots in the third grade — they ran away as fast as they could to onyesha who's the quickest. And I would just like walk. I'd say, 'Where are wewe going, wewe idiots?' And I would get, like, 50 kisses, cause all the other guys were on the other side of the field. So it wasn't like the craziest thing, but I thought they were crazy, cause I was like, 'What are wewe doing? Okay, you're really fast, and I just kissed your girl.'
C: What happens when you're attracted to a friend? Have wewe ever had a friend, then one siku wewe look at her and realize...
FPJ: Absolutely. It's scary, cause wewe don't want to disrespect her; wewe don't want her to feel like you're violating a trust that wewe have. So wewe either have to stifle those feelings, au wewe have to be brutally honest and hope she doesn't feel offended kwa it. And it's a really scary thing.
C: Do wewe think good relationships come out of that?
FPJ: I mean the way things are going right now for me, I think it definitely helps to have a wonderful friendship before.
C: What do wewe think about settling down?
FPJ: I'm pretty much the domesticated male.
C: Do wewe want children?
FPJ: Absolutely, of course. I would upendo to have babies. I definitely want to have children before I'm 30. Absolutely. I want to be able to be young and play with my kids and be able to relate to them. I feel if I'm older than that, I would kind of lose something. I want to be alive as long as I can for my kids and for their kids.
C: wewe have a good heart, wewe aren't self-destructive. You're just a novelty in this business.
FPJ: No, no, I just know what I want. I know what I like. So I have an easier time than some other people who might have grown up differently. I just have a different outlook. I like to do things for me, for myself. I like being happy, so I'm not going to do things that aren't gonna make me happy. Bottom line. I'm living out my dream. I have the greatest family, and the greatest friends, and the best girlfriend, and the coolest job, and a great house with two dogs. That is the dream. And I am idealistic. I strongly believe that if wewe follow your moyo wewe can accomplish what wewe want, and not to quit on those dreams, because it's hard as hell, of course it is. But when wewe make it, it's like, so worth it.
Copyright © 2000 Cosmopolitan Magazine. All Rights Reserved.
All About Men
Summer 2000
Freddie Prinze, Jr. tells us who he's in upendo with this summer.
Cosmo: So are wewe the typical Pisces, wewe can't make up your mind?
Freddie Prinze, Jr.: No, I'm very laid back. I'm just cooled out. Pretty much everything is cool with me. If somebody says, 'You want to eat Japanese chakula now?' I'm like, 'Yeah, sure.' And I really want to. Somebody says, 'You want steak?' I'm like, 'Oh, that's cool.' I go with the flow and pretty much remain cool.
C: Do wewe like food?
FPJ: I upendo food. My inayopendelewa thing to do in the world is eat. Absolutely.
C: What foods do wewe like?
FPJ: Everything. If it doesn't eat me first, I'll eat it. Japanese chakula is my favorite, and steak. I upendo taking a woman to dinner, and I upendo watching her enjoy her food. And I upendo the way girls look in restaurants — lighting and candles, and the way women hold their silverware and the way they chew their food. It's just a very sexy thing to me, and I've always liked it. I upendo going out. Me and my girlfriend [Sarah Michelle Gellar] go out all the time. I upendo it.
C: Do wewe get dressed up?
FPJ: No. I'll put on a nice sweater and slacks. au if we go somewhere else I'll wear a T-shirt and jeans. It depends. It's zaidi about her than it is me. I'm looking at her probably a lot more. I stare way too much. I can't help it.
C: What's the most romantic thing you've ever done for someone?
FPJ: I like being romantic, but I don't know if there's a most romantic thing. Everything I do with my girl and with my other girlfriends, I try to be romantic. I like romance a lot, I like passion a lot. I like uandishi to them about how I feel about them and how they make me feel. And I want to let them know how special they are. And I'm not always good at verbally communicating that, so I really enjoy uandishi it down and then kind of being that way because it's as honest as I can possibly be.
C: What's the worst thing a girl can do on a tarehe with you?
FPJ: The worst thing... not enjoy the restaurant. Not like what we got. 'Cause I try to go to places that I know are really good. And if we don't like the same food, then that can be a serious problem. I went on a tarehe with a girl and I took her to get sushi. She wasn't gonna eat it. That was the last date. 'Cause that's my inayopendelewa food.
C: What would a girl have to do to get your attention?
FPJ: They'd just have to be special. There are some women that just shine when wewe look at 'em and make your eyes kind of well up, and wewe get so filled with so many different thoughts and emotions wewe don't know what to do. wewe don't know if you're gonna cry au you're gonna laugh au vomit.
C: What's the craziest thing wewe ever did to get a girl's attention?
FPJ: When I was a little kid, we played boys chase girls and girls chase boys, and I was really, really fast, so it was easy for me to catch 'em. The girls were really slow. And all the guys, for some reason — cause they're idiots in the third grade — they ran away as fast as they could to onyesha who's the quickest. And I would just like walk. I'd say, 'Where are wewe going, wewe idiots?' And I would get, like, 50 kisses, cause all the other guys were on the other side of the field. So it wasn't like the craziest thing, but I thought they were crazy, cause I was like, 'What are wewe doing? Okay, you're really fast, and I just kissed your girl.'
C: What happens when you're attracted to a friend? Have wewe ever had a friend, then one siku wewe look at her and realize...
FPJ: Absolutely. It's scary, cause wewe don't want to disrespect her; wewe don't want her to feel like you're violating a trust that wewe have. So wewe either have to stifle those feelings, au wewe have to be brutally honest and hope she doesn't feel offended kwa it. And it's a really scary thing.
C: Do wewe think good relationships come out of that?
FPJ: I mean the way things are going right now for me, I think it definitely helps to have a wonderful friendship before.
C: What do wewe think about settling down?
FPJ: I'm pretty much the domesticated male.
C: Do wewe want children?
FPJ: Absolutely, of course. I would upendo to have babies. I definitely want to have children before I'm 30. Absolutely. I want to be able to be young and play with my kids and be able to relate to them. I feel if I'm older than that, I would kind of lose something. I want to be alive as long as I can for my kids and for their kids.
C: wewe have a good heart, wewe aren't self-destructive. You're just a novelty in this business.
FPJ: No, no, I just know what I want. I know what I like. So I have an easier time than some other people who might have grown up differently. I just have a different outlook. I like to do things for me, for myself. I like being happy, so I'm not going to do things that aren't gonna make me happy. Bottom line. I'm living out my dream. I have the greatest family, and the greatest friends, and the best girlfriend, and the coolest job, and a great house with two dogs. That is the dream. And I am idealistic. I strongly believe that if wewe follow your moyo wewe can accomplish what wewe want, and not to quit on those dreams, because it's hard as hell, of course it is. But when wewe make it, it's like, so worth it.
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