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Entertainment Weekly (June 25/July 2, 2004)
The Must List - The Cast of Without A Trace is listed as 33 - 37
NAMES/AGES: Enrique Murciano, 30; Poppy Montgomery, 29 ("Although IMDb says that I'm 32. At the end of the day, who gives a s---? Honestly"); Anthony LaPaglia, 45; Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 37; and Eric Close, 37.
MUSTWORTHINESS: CSI gets all the ink, but we'll trust our lives to this pack of smart, gutsy FBI agents, led by the multi-award-winning LaPaglia. The CBS missing-person identity thriller finished last season at No. 12.
PLUS, THEY'RE SO COOL: Lapaglia: "I listen to everything from Gershwin to 50 Cent." OR NOT: Murciano: "I was so addicted to The A-Team." OKAY, REALLY NOT: Close: "Who's OutKast?"
CAREER HIGHS: Montgomery notes her turn as Marilyn Monroe in CBS' Blonde. For LaPaglia, it was his Tony-winning role in A View From the Bridge. And Jean-Baptiste? An Oscar nod for Secrets & Lies. "I've been chasing the dragon ever since."
SO WHY DO TV?: "If you look at what's on television, it's some of the best stuff cinematically: The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood...," says LaPaglia. "And I don't want to work for scale, not when they're spending $150 million on a film."
AND IT BEATS THEIR OLD GIGS: The rest of the cast suffered usual grinds (bartending, retail, Wendy's ads), but Lapaglia paid heavy dues. "My first job in show business. They were doing auditions for a cereal commercial, and they wanted to see how the actors ate on camera... My job was to hold the spit bucket."
ON THEIR MUST LISTS: Close gives Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes a thumbs-up, while Montgomery listens to Damien Rice, and Jean-Baptiste is waiting for Anita Baker. "She needs to make an album, baby." Murciano, meanwhile shows some love for Caetano Veloso. "I listen to the man and I wanna have sex, cook and raise giraffes at the same time!"
NEXT: Season 3 of Trace plus movie work: Winter Solstice for LaPaglia, and the indie thriller Between, shooting in Mexico, for Montgomery. Murciano is currently shooting Miss Congeniality 2. Jean-Baptiste, a film scorer, is returning to the recording studio.
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