February 9, 2005 The View, ABC Transcribed by Kimberly Chapman Note: With five women constantly talking over each other, it was hard to produce an entirely accurate transcript. This is the best effort, as assisted by closed-captioning. I do not usually watch this show so I don't know all of the interviewers' names. Seated in order: 1) name unknown, a star of Desperate Housewives 2) Star Jones 3) Anthony LaPaglia 4) name unknown 5) Barbara Walters 6) name unknown Anthony is introduced, comes in, kisses each woman All of the women talk at once, he tries to get word in but fails. 4): Are you a lesbian, Anthony? 1): I knew you were going to ask that! ALP: I'm not a...I'm not a...I'm not a lesbian but I'm thinking about it. squeals of giggles from women 6): It seems to be sort of fun, right? ALP: It's...uh...yeah, I have no problem with it at all. BW: How about kinky sex? 4): That's some question, Barbara, how about kinky sex? You up for it? ALP: What do you have in mind? BW: We'll talk during the next commercial. ALP: What do you have in mind? It's early in the morning but I'll take it into consideration. Whatever you want to do. BW: Okay, okay. 6) Do you discuss these things with your wife, though? Would you, like, have a meeting about it? ALP: My wife does nothing but discuss kinky sex. My wife...my wife's obsession is anything sexual. She loves it. 6): Life's pretty good, right? ALP: Oh yeah, life's pretty damned good! I think that's her thesis for her undergraduate studies, is sex. SJ: I have to tell you how much I love your acc-...your voice. ALP: I run into you all the time and I always think, "That's a sexy woman." SJ: What a nice thing to say! Thank you! ALP: It's true, you are. SJ: All you have to do is open your mouth... others: Hello! What about the rest of us? Hey! ALP: It's not that the rest of you aren't sexy, it's just I just happen to run into her all the time. I don't know why. SJ: Because I've been hanging out with your wife! ALP: (laughs) That's what it is! 6): I want to discuss Jack Malone because on the show, you've been doing it for three years. ALP: Yeah. 6): If you had...now three years is a long time. So if you had to solve a crime now and find a missing person, you piece together these crimes all the time, do you think you'd have what it takes to find someone now? ALP: Absolutely not. I'm the last person...I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person." laughter ALP: I'm really terrible. Although you do get...just by doing it you get very educated in terms of...I have a two-year-old daughter, so there's like...the media tends to hype stuff up sometimes so there's this huge fear factor of your child being abducted by a complete stranger. I work with these FBI guys and those instances are very rare. Children being kidnapped by complete strangers happens maybe six times in a year. The rest of it - 4): Really? ALP: Yes. The rest of it is parents, uncles, aunts, relatives. BW: But it makes for good television the other way. ALP: Yes. Complete strangers are, you know, scarier than your Uncle Fred. So... BW: But you know, whatever you do on that show, I heard you were nominated for an Emmy. But I heard you made a bet hoping...that you would lose. Is that true? ALP: Well what happened is I was fortunate enough to get nominated and I had a friend who was staying with me, another actor who was doing The Practice, the end part of The Practice, and he came home one night and he said, "Oh, here's an episode that I did. Would you have a look at it and tell me what you think?" So I threw it in and I watched it and I was so mesmerized by James Spader and William Shatner I just sat there thinking, "They're unbelievable, they're so great -" others agree ALP: And funny. And so when that was over, you know they like to say you're the favourite your you're the this or you're the that, and I kept saying, "Mmm, you've gotta see this episode I saw -" BW: How sweet of you! ALP: "James Spader is going to win." And nobody would agree with me, so I said, "Okay, I bet you 200 bucks," and by the end of the whole exercise I won 800 bucks and a bottle of Dom. SJ: Wow! ALP: And it was almost worth losing. 4): Every once in awhile that little Australian accent sneaks in there. ALP: (smacks his hands together hard, grumbles) Get it out! SJ: I love it! ALP: It does come out, yeah. 1): You start out sort of American and then you just slipped into the Australian. ALP: Well, I relaxed. SJ: Here with the chicks. ALP: Yeah, here with the girls. SJ: The show doesn't relax a lot. You deal with some pretty grisly crimes. ALP: Yeah. SJ: And although it's television and although I know it's fake blood and stuff, sometimes I get nervous - ALP: Noooo. It's not fake. SJ: I know it's fake! ALP: No! SJ: Don't tell me it's real! ALP: It's mine! SJ: How are you able to leave that stuff at the studio and not take it home, because it is pretty intense sometimes. ALP: Well you know, you...you do...the stuff that...the stuff we do with adults, you know it sounds a little cruel but it's easier to deal with because adults have more control over their lives to some degree. When anything has to do with children, I find that more difficult to deal with. And when you talk to the real FBI guys they will tell you every time, the worst thing that they have to deal with is children that have been taken and killed and that is the worst thing and no matter how long they do it, they can never get used to it. ?: Never. ALP: So it does make me very...uh...if I'm out shopping with my wife and daughter, I'm just like this (crouches defensively), I'm corralling her every second, and she...well, it does get to you. ?: Well you have to. ?: Little Bridget. ALP: Yeah, little Bridget. (squishy smile) ?: We like her. ALP: She's probably watching this morning. ?: Hi Bridget! 6): Listen, we got the best of both worlds, we got to hear your voice and we got to have you here. It's good to have you here. Come back any time, okay? ALP: Thank you. 6): Come back again, okay? We love the show. ALP: Thanks.