And introducing…Scott Caan

Empire
Ian Freer

Meet Sonny Corleone's first born...the butt-naked, good-time guy in teen football romp, Varsity Blues.

Sporting a white vest revealing highly-developed biceps, Scott Caan is, in playground parlance, "staring Empire out". The thick-necked, tall-haired son of James Caan has taken umbrage to a question about his father and adopts an intense glaring tactic for the rest of the interview. Not wishing to incur the wrath of Caan - he was arrested in 1998 for bar brawling - questioning switches to his turn as Tweeder, the rebel-rousing, girl-chasing comic relief in this month's Varsity Blues.
"If I did some of the things I did in the movie in real life, I'd be in jail," he drawls, referring to his character's butt naked drive in a nicked cop car with four disrobed babes. "It was my idea. Originally, only the girls were supposed to be naked. I felt sorry for then, so I stripped too."

Sharing a condo on location in Austin. Texas with co-star Paul Walker, for Caan, the good times rolled off camera as well as on. "We lived in a party", he says somewhat cagily. "A lot went down." A self-confessed "bad kid" in school the five foot five 22 year old Caan swapped sports for acting - landing roles in Gregg Araki's Nowhere (1997) and Tony Scott's Enemy Of The State (1998). Currently shooting scamming flick The Boiler Room, starring Ben Affleck, Caan is opposed to any notion of hype ("I think, just let the work show") and draws inspiration from previous generations (Brando, Pacino and his old man) rather than his peers.
"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. Men should have rough hands and be strong."

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