What's up with the world's hottest guy? Shockingly naughty antics for his TV character, a new movie--Evening Star, with Juliette Lewis, a sequel to the tear-jerker Terms of Endearment, out next month--and a real-life romance that seems to have utterly captured his heart!
the good news for Party of Five devotees? Perennial good guy Bailey is going to get way whacked out on the show's upcoming season (think a new twisted party girl and your run-of-the-mill college debauchery). The bad news for Scott Wolf admirers? He's in real-life love (think heart-thumping, head-over-heels in love) with Paula Devicq, the exnanny and fiancée of Charlie. So what do all the dramatics and sweet-talking add up to? Scott Wolf and his alter-ego Bailey are finally getting a life, on and off the tube!
"Yeah, there's no doubt that I'm learning something from the storyline I'm playing right now," says the reluctant bad-boy-in-training. "If I do err toward one side, it's that I think too much. I could do better at surrendering myself a lot more. I'm really trying to be more irresponsible -- but it's hard work."
A struggle is more like it. In fact, when asked what's the sassiest thing the blue-eyed babe has ever done, he's hard-pressed for an answer. Minutes go by as he searches for that forbidden moment in his twenty-something lifetime when he might have lost control and gone at least a little crazy. Still nothing. Finally, he flashes his drop-dead smile and 'fesses up: "I guess I haven't done it yet -- I've yet to find my sassy side."
Maybe Paula will help him discover it. The young actress is Scott's third go-round in the serious-relationship realm. Former fiancée Alyssa Milano, who weighed in as his second heart-break, is "ancient history," Scott says, anxious to avoid talking too much about the love thing. But we press on: What exactly makes Paula different?
Scott smiles but just can't seem to put it into words. "All I can say is she's different from anyone else I've ever been with and I love her... very much. We met on the show and were friends first for a couple of years," he continues bashfully. "All that first-date stuff was already known, so it made things much easier when we actually began dating. And we started out with the right stuff -- a mutual liking for one another, respect and an understanding and acceptance of who each other was."
Spoken like a true good guy! So it's hard to imagine starry-eyed Scott trying to roughen up his edges. Even at his worst, he's at his best. Just check out how he deals with fans: "I was in Seattle recently, walking through this market area. I never should have gone out that day because I wasn't in a mood to relate to people -- I just kind of wanted to dissolve into the background," he relates. "Lots of people started coming up to me and I started feeling really frustrated. I gave a few really abrupt autographs and then I realized, 'There's no place for this: people deserve for me to be kind to them, to give them an autograph without an attitude.' If they're going to come up to me and offer some nice words and say they like my work, it's the least I can do... it doesn't take a lot to smile at someone."
If that's Scott on a bad day, imagine what the good ones are like...
