Elisabeth Rohm on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Aired December 1, 2003 ♠ View screencaps here: Elisabeth Rohm on the Late Late Show Screencaps Transcript by Katie Dougherty (Scarlet Rose) Craig Kilborn: "Next guest- beautiful actress who appeared in the series One Life to Live and Angel before landing a leading role on the long-running drama Law & Order - please welcome...here she is...Elisabeth Rohm!" [After Craig and Elisabeth meet and she sits down]: Craig Kilborn: "Hi." Elisabeth: "Hi." Craig Kilborn: "Are you carrying something...are we doing this right..." Elisabeth: "Well, it's not my lunch box." Craig Kilborn: "Okay." Elisabeth: "But I was trying to figure out how you might remember me." Craig Kilborn: "Did we meet?" Elisabeth: "We did - but you don't remember!" Craig Kilborn: "Tell me I was nice!" Elisabeth: "You don't remember me!" Craig Kilborn: "I meet so many people..." Elisabeth: "It was so important to me - meeting you was so important to me." Craig Kilborn: "Is it Elisabeth? Yes! [pretends he remembers as Elisabeth laughs] Elisabeth: "But I think this might actually make you remember me... [hands over box]. I don't know if we can show it to your guests..." Craig Kilborn: "Well, we'll try...I don't...they're my friends, I can show them everything." Elisabeth: "I don't know." Craig Kilborn: "It's a box of strip chocolates..." [Craig holds the box out - it's a red box with 'strip chocolates' printed in bold white, with a woman's hand holding lingerie]. Audience laughs and hollers. Next words are unintelligible- lost in crowd noise Craig Kilborn: "What does that mean? Tell me - refresh my memory!" Elisabeth: "I don't know. But will you call me when you figure it out casue I've been working so much I haven't had time to play a game like that in a while." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah - was this part of...where did we meet at? Where did we meet?" Elisabeth: "We met at a party and my costar from Bull, Alicia Coppola, had been on the show and I saw you and I thought you were really handsome so I thought I'd go up and say, you know my costar did your show..." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah." Elisabeth: "I did! I said my co-star did your show and was just great and you guys were great and you were like- that's right!" [Elisabeth playfully gets up as if to leave, then sits back down] Craig Kilborn: "Oh, I'm sorry! I must have been...someone...what party was it?" Elisabeth: "It was a GQ...I think, maybe, Men of the Year." Craig Kilborn: "Men of the Year. Well, I probably was storming out..." Elisabeth: "You were one of the men of the year and you were, like, busy!" Craig Kilborn: "No, I probably lost to Derek Jeter again and I probably stormed out of the party." [Elisabeth laughs]. Craig Kilborn: "I don't know. But I don't know what this means but I like it. We can try that at some point!" Elisabeth: "It's an early Christmas gift - cause I know we're important to you." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, yeah! Well, I apologize for not...I'll remember you at a party now!" Elisabeth: "Good! I'll introduce myself again!" Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, I didn't..." [Audience and Craig laugh] Craig Kilborn: "Oh, this is fun." [Elisabeth laughs] Craig Kilborn: "Ah, congratulations. Law and Order - and my understanding, my research says that you're the first blonde ever on Law and Order? Is that correct?" Elisabeth: "I think that the reruns seem to prove that, yeah." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, congratulations! Yeah." Elisabeth: "Thank you, thank you!" [Audience claps & some guy lets out a catcall -- Elisabeth laughs at it] Craig Kilborn: "How did you come about..." Elisabeth: "Any blondes in the audience? {she points to the audience} Um, I honestly have no idea how it came about. I had worked for Dick Wolf before and I really wanted this job because I'm from New York City and I was out here trying to make my dreams come true. So I called him and I said, you know, is this job available? And he said, you know, I really don't see...I don't see you in this part. I don't see a pretty girl and I don't see you in the part." Craig Kilborn: "Ouch! Was he separating...cause you're a lovely woman..." Elisabeth: "Well, thank you!" Craig Kilborn: "Okay..." Elisabeth: "So I still kinda dropped in and the next day I had a screen test and I honestly don't know where the wheels changed in his mind but... (slyly) it must have been the work!" Craig Kilborn: "Yeah- must have been your craft, the acting... Elisabeth: "It must have not been the blonde hair..." {tugs on a strand} Craig Kilborn: "...the acting chops..." Elisabeth: "Yeah!" Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, you know, now tell me a New York City story. You got anything good? You got any scary ones?" Elisabeth: "There's always some good New York City stories. Let's see..." Craig Kilborn: "I lived there for a while." Elisabeth: "Scary stuff?" Craig Kilborn: "Nothing scary. They just told me...This is what they told me when I got there, cause it's an expensive city." Elisabeth: "Yes, it is." Craig Kilborn: "If you have a car.." Elisabeth: "700 sq. feet I think it's like a million dollars." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, it's very expensive." [Elisabeth laughs] Craig Kilborn: "I took a train down there from Conneticut from ESPN and my buddies said - 'When you get off the train, cause you're moving there now- throw a twenty onto the pavement and just walk away. Cause you're going to be throwing money away for the next few years.' That's how expensive it is!" Elisabeth: "I know! I actually would like to move back so I could have a home instead of, I think, a room. But uh, let's see. I think there's one really good story, because it kinda relates to Law and Order. When I was like 19 years old, I was out at a club one night and it was really late. And um, I found out I didn't have that much money to get back to college. I went to Sarah Lawrence, which was 20 minutes outside the city." Craig Kilborn: "Uh-huh." Elisabeth: "And around the Bronx, you know, it's like four in the morning - I decide honesty is the best policy." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah." Elisabeth: "Which I don't think so in New York. [audience laughs] Because he dropped me off in the middle of the Bronx where there was a sketch outline of a dead body and yellow tape. And I was like..." Craig Kilborn: "Yeah..." [shocked] Elisabeth: "This isn't Kansas anymore!" Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, yeah!" Elisabeth: "And I ran across the street to a gast station and basically was like Uma Thurman in...when she sticks out her thumb? And I hailed a huge truck." [Craig laughs] Elisabeth: "A huge, enormous truck and then I read him literature excerpts - to ensure that I didn't get hurt...or raped...or..." Craig Kilborn: "That's crazy!" Elisabeth: "And he pulled up to my dormitory - I think by that time it was five in the morning, the sun's rising- thank God. I don't know where all my friends were from school, but my trucker pulled me right up and dropped me off." [Audience laughs] Craig Kilborn: "That's crazy! Can I say something to my producer? Should we cover this up? [He holds his blue card in front of Lis' cleavage] I'm seeing something from my angle. I'm scared - just fix yourself!" [Elisabeth looks down and pulls the tank up farther] Craig Kilborn: "Yeah, there you go!" [Audience laughs] Craig Kilborn: "God, I would have said hi to you at the party if you'd done that!" Elisabeth: "Oh my God!" [Elisabeth laughs, looking a bit embarrassed] Craig Kilborn: "Now they said I could ask you this..." Elisabeth: "I am totally... [unintelligible- can't make out the word]. ...that's awful!" Craig Kilborn: "No you're great! I'm just protecting you! Big Brother Craig!" Craig Kilborn: "We don't have much time left..." [Elisabeth checks her tank again] Elisabeth: "Good!" [unintelligible- can't make word out] Craig Kilborn: "Ah, you broke up...you got fired and broke up the same day?" Elisabeth: "Oh my God." Craig Kilborn: "That's what they told me - they said I could ask you..." Elisabeth: "How...brothers don't ask that on television!" Craig Kilborn: "Oh, that's right...Yeah...Now, it was the worst..." Elisabeth: "It's a 'get fired' story and 'be broke up - being broken up with' story." Craig Kilborn: "That's a Bruce Springsteen song right there - add a car, and then you're golden- you're Bruce Springsteen." Elisabeth: "I did- I got right into a car and went to L.A. But I was on OLTL and I got fired and then I went to my boyfriend's house and cried on his shoulder, and then he dumped me." Craig Kilborn: "Oh, what a loser." [Audience boos at the loser boyfriend] Elisabeth: "Because I wasn't...he had been at a bar mitzvah. He said, you know - I'm really sorry this is bad timing, he said, but I gotta tell you Lis, I didn't see you in my mind's eye when I looked out at all of my family and friends at the bar mitzvah. And I was like- you've got to be kidding me!" Craig Kilborn: "Mr. Sensitive." Elisabeth: "It was the worst day of my life!" Craig Kilborn: "That's too bad." Elisabeth: "Thanks for bringing it up!" [Audience laughs] Craig Kilborn: "That's my bad. They said you wanted to talk about it - get it off your chest...So, Law and Order...we're out of time now..." Elisabeth: "So I can cry now?" Craig Kilborn: "No! I'm gonna hold you! Law and Order on NBC Thursdays. Great to see you- Elisabeth Rohm! That was very good. We'll be right back, stay with us." This interview is the intellectual property of The Late Late Show and Craig Kilborn. It is transcribed simply for fan purposes. No copyright infringement is intended. :: Back up ::       2008 Rohm with a View. 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