Bar Refaeli on 'Ironic Iconic America'
Posted by Lorrie Lynch
Few things seem more iconically American than a good old fashioned road trip, and not many designers are as quintessentially American as Tommy Hilfiger -- so the pairing of the two makes sense when you think about it. Enter Ironic Iconic America, Hilfiger's new film that takes viewers across the country to check out some of its most notable sights. Along for the ride is model Bar Refaeli (who, if you read the celebrity gossip mags, you may also recognize as Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend) and poet and "observationalist" Rives, who fills Refaeli in on all the fun facts about the places they visit. Kathy talked to Refaeli earlier this week, so click on read more below to find out about her favorite part of the trip, and tune into Bravo tomorrow at 8 p.m. to see the whole film.
Kathy Rowings: Had you been on a road trip before this one?
Bar Refaeli: I've done road trips, but this one
was different. I've done them in Israel, and with my friends in
California, but it was always like, you look to the sides and it's like "Oh, that's pretty, this is pretty" but it was never realy about
learning, never about history or visiting important monuments and
sites.
KR: What was the most fun thing you did?
BR: One of them was getting ready
for the prom, because it was really one of my dreams as a kid,
watching all the teen movies and seeing them getting ready and it was
such a big part of the American lifestyle for teenagers and I always
wanted to experience it. So it was a little like one of my dreams
coming true -- I felt like a young little girl from Israel who's living
the American life.
KR: But you get to dress up for modeling all the time, right? This was even more
fun than that?
BR: You know when you're like 15 or 16 and you watch
all these movies like Clueless, all these movies that I used to love,
they always had proms in them and we never had that kind of thing in
Israel. So at that age I really wanted a reason to dress up. Now I do
all the time, but at that age it was great.
KR: How much input did you have in where you visited?
BR: They really just told me where we were going, because Rives had so many
ideas about where he wanted to go. He asked me about a few places, but
even the ones I said I wasn't interested in they kept, because I think
it made it more real, to see my real enthusiasm -- for better or worse
sometimes I was happy to go places and sometimes I wasn't.
KR: What weren't you so excited about?
BR: My least favorite was probably the buffaloes in Catalina Island. It was
just really hot and desert-y and stinky and he just showed me a lot of
buffaloes. I complained a lot and was like "Rives, why are you taking
me here? We came from Venice, beautiful beach-y town to buffaloes who
are basically standing in their own not-great things."
(photo by Atsushi Nishijima/Bravo)
Comments (1)
nice, really nice!