[IMG:L]Grey’s Anatomy fans still mourning the loss of poor, doomed Denny need wait no longer to have an all new romance with their heartthrob. Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays another dream man in P.S. I Love You. This time, he’s the guy who lives.
When Gerry (Gerard Butler) dies, he plans a series of letters to arrive for his wife Holly (Hilary Swank) after he’s gone. One takes her to Ireland where she meets local pub rocker William (Morgan). You’ll get to see his butt in a post shower scene.
Now sporting stubble and a moustache for his role in the graphic novel adaptation Watchmen, Morgan is running on fumes. In Los Angeles for a PR weekend before returning to Canada, Morgan enjoyed a diversionary chat with Hollywood.com.
Hollywood.com: Why do women love you so much?
Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Jesus, I don’t know! I think it’s probably because of the characters I’ve played. Because of playing Denny I think originally. He just endeared himself to the female population I think.
HW: How many hunky heartthrob roles were you offered after that?
JDM: Well, I guess a couple, this being one of them, P.S. I Love You. The phone started ringing, that’s for sure. He kind of changed my whole life, Denny did, so thank God.
HW: How do you sweep a woman off her feet in real life?
JDM: I am a big romantic. I’m kind of old fashioned in the sense that I believe every moment that you spend with the person that you’re with can be romantic so I try to make the most of every second I can when I’m with my girl.
[IMG:R]HW: Man, you are good. Can you give us real guys a break?
JDM: [Laughs] Man, you know what it is? It’s just being old. I think it’s just being old and you get a little bit wiser but it also helps to be in love. Romance, I think, comes easy if you’re in love with somebody.
HW: Was Gerard around to make sure you didn’t slip out of the accent?
JDM: His accent’s horrible. Are you kidding me? He doesn’t even do an Irish accent. He does a Scottish one. Yeha, Gerry and I, we spent I guess a month together in Ireland and we were kind of each other’s keeper. We would have dialect lessons together, we had guitar lessons together and mostly caused a lot of trouble. I think the studio as well as our director Richie [LaGravenese] was ‘God, get those two away from each other. They’re nothing but trouble.”
HW: Like Beavis and Butthead…
JDM: A little bit like Beavis and Butthead. I just did an interview, the three of us, me, Gerry and Harry [Connick Jr.] This poor lady was so flustered, every question she asked we would just go into a stupid riff. We’re like the Three Stooges doing this thing.
[IMG:L]HW: You’ve got Gerard‘s widow here, his director Zack Snyder in Watchmen–are you going to keep taking his table scraps?
JDM: He called me one day and said I was stealing his life which I don’t believe, but we are right now both doing these action movies and we’re sharing a stuntman, so it’s hilarious. Our stunt double, each of us have the same guy who’s flying back and forth. That guy’s taking a beating working for both of us right now. But yeah, I’ll take Gerry‘s life. Man, he has a pretty good thing going right now.
HW: What’s your take on a comic book superhero?
JDM: Watchmen is a completely different thing than any other superhero thing that’s every been done–and it’s more of the deconstruction of superheroes more than anything else. The Comedian in particular, who I play, is just a mess. He’s a disaster of a guy. I guess I shouldn’t say he’s a disaster of a guy. He’s pretty focused and he knows what he wants, but he’s just a little bit inhuman in his way of dealing and thinking. It’s been a trip.
[IMG:R]HW: Did you need to do a dude movie after Grey’s and P.S.?
JDM: I did. I kind of wanted to do a dude movie because right after Grey’s and P.S., I remember I went on, oddly enough, it was Nim’s Island. They had come to me for it and were like, “We really want you to do this movie.” This was before Gerry came into the picture. Gerry took the movie from me. It’s like, “We don’t know if Jeff can do enough of an edge.” Because they had been used to seeing me be so non-edgy I guess. Hence, I’m now doing Watchmen which is probably the edgiest character to grace the screen, which made me laugh. When the offer went to Gerry, I just laughed my ass off. Yeah, I kind of did need to do a dude movie to break out of everything we were doing here.
HW: Do you still watch Grey’s?
JDM: I don’t. I mean, I do, I try to keep up with it but I’m way behind because I’m in the middle of doing a film right now and working nights, so I juts don’t see it. I don’t have Tivo up in Canada.
