Chris Pine wants George Clooney’s personal life, jokes about hookers

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We had a preview of Chris Pine’s Details pictorial on Sunday, and now Details has released the complete interview and photo shoot. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t really care for Pine. He strikes me as a cocky douche. While reading this, I learned something that I think I had forgotten in a haze of gossip – Pine is taking over the Jack Ryan role in the next film – that’s a role done by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck – does Pine have the chops? Eh. The full Details piece is kind of interesting. Pine works very hard at sounding intellectual, and he speaks with a kind of self-help-speak vibe that Jennifer Aniston would respond to. He also claims he wants to be the next George Clooney, and he admits that he’s always asking his managers to fix him up with “starlets.” Here are the highlights:

Pine on doing a six-week run of Martin McDonagh’s Tony-nominated pitch-black comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore in LA: “My body’s all sorts of f-cked-up,” Pine tells me backstage after the show. “I tore my groin,” he adds. “I pulled my neck and my glute, tweaked my rhomboid, sprained my f-cking sacrum.”

Pine’s family is in showbiz: Pine’s father has a list of credits so extensive that it’s a drinking game waiting to happen. (Quick: Name the only actor to show up on both ALF and Six Feet Under.) Since the 1960s, Robert Pine has appeared on Bonanza, The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Family Ties, Dallas, Baywatch, The West Wing, and The Office. For the most part, those were one- or two-episode gigs, the Hollywood equivalent of day-laboring. “My father,” says Pine, “calls acting a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.” Many, many short spurts in Robert’s case, with one exception: 139 episodes of CHiPs, a show Chris himself appeared on—in utero. “My grandmother was an actress too,” Pine says between bites of spinach salad. “In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal. Crazy, right?”

His mom and sister are therapists: “I don’t think there’s anything better than talk therapy,” Pine says. “And the combination of acting and therapy makes a whole lot of sense.”

On aging: “I feel prematurely old,” he says. “I’m actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I’m turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I’m going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I’m going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.”

On vacations and not getting the part in Entourage: The last time Pine ventured into the realm of spontaneity he ended up vacationing in postwar Bosnia. “You could feel the residual tension,” he says, “the vestiges of what had happened. The energy. The bones of the country.” Pine concluded that trip in Poland, watching the sun set at the Birkenau concentration camp. Vinnie Chase he is not—though he did audition unsuccessfully for the role. In a couple of days, Pine tells me, he’s giving the whole come-what-may vacation thing another try. “I really don’t know where the hell I’m going,” he says. “I think it’s going to be a solo drive somewhere. I want to do some self-assessment and decompressing. I’m serious about working on that.”

What he really needs are some hookers: He has a tendency to intellectualize everything. “My therapist was very wise to that way of hiding,” he says, “and asked me to cut it out.” But the very behaviors that thwart breakthroughs on the couch—deflecting questions with questions, obsessively seeking definitions and etymologies for every clinical term—have a way of impressing on the set. Pine is even starting to question his own analytical nature. Questioning his own questionings. What’s it all worth? “I’m more cerebral than I want to be,” he says. “Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas. Do some drugs. Get some hookers. Gamble it all away. And it never happens. I usually just end up at home on my couch—reading. It’s all just cognitive behavioral therapy for me. How do you change how you think to make your life work. I’m single and very happy about it. It’s a good time to be single. I have a lot of friends getting married right now, having babies. But I think I’ll be more like… the George Clooney.”

On dating: It’s been over a year since he’s been photographed with Audrina Patridge, late of The Hills, and though he says he frequently asks his publicist and manager to introduce him to starlets, he does suggest that their unified response—”We’re not a dating service”—is, in fact, modifying his behavior.

[From Details]

While I like Pine a little bit more after reading this, I have new qualms about him. Wanting to be like Clooney… in his personal life? Joking about picking up some hookers? Asking his managers to set him up with “starlets” like Audrina Patridge? Uh… sounds like he’s a pretty typical douche (about women and relationships) who is steadily realizing that he needs to keep his kinks on the downlow if he wants to be a major star.

Here are some additional photos of The Intellectual with glasses, and some more Details photos:

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Details photos courtesy of Details’ slideshow. Additional pics courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

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26 Responses to “Chris Pine wants George Clooney’s personal life, jokes about hookers”

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  1. carrie says:

    so Pine wants to a closeted gay???

  2. Anne says:

    @ Carrie, that was my first thought too! LAWL!!!

  3. LadyBea says:

    Starlets? Really? Who uses the words ‘starlets’ anymore?

    Alas, not even his silly psycho-babble, Dr. Phil-esque rambling can tame my Pine-inspired crotch tingles.

    And carrie’s (#1) Clooney-bash made me laugh.

  4. Aqua says:

    I think he should take a pass on having George Clooneys personal life.His relationships are always somewhat of a joke.

  5. TQB says:

    He’s a cocky douche… and i would absolutely hit that on that car seat.

  6. LeManda says:

    He may be a douche but boy oh boy he does photograph beautifully! *Drool*

  7. Ally says:

    He already has a big noggin’, styling his hair vertical like that only makes it look worse.

  8. Andria says:

    “He’s a cocky douche… and i would absolutely hit that on that car seat.”

    Hell yeah!

  9. gabs says:

    DOUCHE. Id probably hit it and quit it though.

  10. skibunny says:

    Lol@Carrie’s bash on Clooney.

    Wow this guy is hot!

  11. Granger says:

    I’ll be taking my husband to see the next Jack Ryan flick. You know, because it’s a guy movie. Nothing to do with the fact that Chris Pine is f***ing hot. Absolutely nothing.

  12. Randomness says:

    So my boyfriend used to date Pine’s now ex-girlfriend. Does that mean I’ve technically boned Chris Pine?

  13. mn says:

    @carrie Exactly!

    He sounds douchey but as much as Shia Laboeuf .Now that’s a guy who needs a reality check.Hope the next Transformers sucks so he can come down a few notches and learn some humility.

  14. ziggy says:

    he has a rather large head- literally.

  15. yes says:

    maybe he likes the George’s tranny horse-face very much!

  16. Camille says:

    Too long; didn’t read (all of it).

    Yep, not a fan, he’s not that good looking and appears to be quite the douche as well. Also I thought he was well into his 30’s so not only might he feel older than he is, but he looks older too.

  17. Hautie says:

    Oddly, I don’t get the douche vibe from him. What I do sense is that he probably was not the “it” guy in high school.

    Probably very bright and talkative but had no luck with the ladies.

    He probably did not grow into his looks till after high school and spent too much time in his own head during those early years.

    But now… that man is awfully pretty.

    Plus he can speak in full sentences without using the term “like you know?” after every random thought he has.

    So I now officially like Chris Pine. 🙂

    And there is something about his eyes that remind me of Michael Weatherly.(NCIS)

  18. Confuzzle says:

    Needs Nair.

  19. Deeme says:

    Yes Hautie I totally agree! And certainly no one here knows about Chris! And it is a very entertaining interview, I think Chris was playing most of the time, this story about George must be a joke!
    He was problably making fun of himself!
    He always says in interview that he takes very seriously, he should already be up to regret what he said in this interview.

  20. Deeme says:

    Do not worry Chris has something much worse than look like George! Prejudicial comments about the people, it sure is a lot uglier!

  21. Briony says:

    Well I definately would, he’s gorgeous.

  22. Mimi says:

    Gorgeous man!

  23. Mia says:

    I do not get where people are getting the “douche vibe.” I have watched quite a few interviews (Trekkie here!) and he’s been gracious and humble. He has this quote on imdb about all the odd jobs he had and how grateful he was for the opportunity he had now.
    His interviews with Quinto are adorable too. He was an English major and the two of them try to outgeek one another. The few late night appearances he’s had he seems very nervous. I don’t get it.

  24. Teresa says:

    Good morning Chris.

    I like your skinnies, I have a pair just like them.

    Yum yum.

  25. Gistine says:

    Jesus H., that man is gorgeous. Brad Pitt looks like a carny compared to him. HOTTTTTT!

  26. Robert says:

    Saw him on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night, and heard him say that he “pulled his sacrum”. Dude, the sacrum is a BONE! You can’t “pull” or “sprain” it. If your health professional told you that you pulled your sacrum, you should ask him/her to be more specific, or find someone else. There are a lot of muscles that attach in that area, and you need to know what was really injured.