TeenHollywood: How did you get involved with Fascination?

Adam: One of my dearest friends was a friend of one of the semi-producer types. He had been asked to write some poetry because the Scott character is a musician/composer. He just sort of said ‘oh, there’s this sort of crazy German director who wants to meet you’. He happened to be in London and I was in London at the time so we met up and his overwhelming enthusiasm convinced me to do the film. Plus it was filming in Puerto Rico and it was hurricane season so I thought there would be good surf and there was pretty good surf.

TeenHollywood: How did you like Puerto Rico? (where Fascination was shot)

Adam: I loved Puerto Rico. It’s got everything you could ever want because it’s an American province thankfully. It’s also maintained its culture and the people are fantastic. I just like that sort of beach lifestyle.

TeenHollywood: You have a Latin last name but have you explored those roots? Have you seen your family in Colombia?

Adam: Yeah. Well, my dad lives in Oakland so he’s fairly accessible but he’s the only person on my father’s side that I’ve ever met. I’ve never been to Colombia because they tend to kidnap people. I have relatives living in New York and I think Florida but I was always living in Australia so the concept of going to Colombia was a very long way. My dad hasn’t been back there for a long time but I’d like to go. I’m obsessed with central and Latin America. I love it

TeenHollywood: Will you get involved in any Latin projects in film?

Adam: Well, my intention is to learn Spanish which would be helpful. With a last name like Garcia, you would think I had some ounce of Spanish but I haven’t learned anything. I can get by. But, I’d love to work in Latin America. I’m really intrigued by that part of my heritage and have never really accessed it. There are a lot of great Latin directors.

TeenHollywood: What’s up with your music?

Adam: I’m actually going back to London and I’ll be playing Chip in ‘On the Town’ for the English Opera. So that will be nice for a couple of months, kick my legs around a bit.

TeenHollywood: What music do you like listening to right now?

Adam: The posthumous Elliot Smith, I think is really good. I liked him before and it’s unfortunate that he stabbed himself twice in the heart. He was clearly a desperately sad mad at the time but I’ve always liked his music. I’m also into a friend’s joke band called Big Phallica and they do ‘80’s hair metal and they are genius. They’re really good musicians but they wear incredibly tight lycra and really big wigs and sing. It’s like Metal School in L.A. at the Roxy on Monday nights. It’s hysterical.

TeenHollywood: Do you live here now?

Adam: I was living here (in L.A.) for eighteen months and now I’m back in London. I’ll be living there for at least a year. I move around a lot. It’s hard to tell.

TeenHollywood: With you moving around a lot, how is that for your career? Does it drive your agent or managers crazy?

Adam: They wanted to track me down for this (junket) but Majaual has no internet, and roughly no telephones either so I was sort of uncontactable. They’re okay with it. I lived in London for nine years. I love doing theater. Los Angeles doesn’t particularly provide that all the time. My ‘people’ have always been very open for me to go where I want and I do like changing it up all the time. Career-wise, I’m not sure because I’ve never really had a good plan, never said, ‘well, I’m going to be here and do this many movies, then be in London’. It just sort of has happened.

TeenHollywood: I can’t see that working for anybody else.

Adam: Yeah. I mean when I first moved to London it was for a tiny little Australian tap dancing show. The intent was to go there for six months and then move back to Australia. Then I thought ‘well, I’ll do another year of traveling because I’m Australian and that’s what we do’ and I didn’t go traveling for four years because I worked all that time and then nine years later I was still in London. How did that happen?

TeenHollywood: Was that before the Australian film Bootmen?

Adam: Yeah. Bootmen happened in I guess ’99 and that was just after I did Saturday Night Fever (on stage) in the West End.

TeenHollywood: Was your character in the Fascination script originally a writer and then they made it a composer because of your musical background?

Adam: No. He was always a musician. Klaus (the director) always had this idea that he was stuck with music and then suddenly this thing happens to his life and, if anything, it gives him some creative power and messes him up completely. But he was always a songwriter and composer in New York.

TeenHollywood: This movie is really about trust in relationships. How important is trust in a relationship for you?

Adam:That’s it. Trust should come quite naturally. It’s a respecting and it’s like anything, when a relationship is good with your love then you give it openly and I guess, when you give your love you do trust someone to cherish it and not mess you around. Ultimately, trust and respect are the keys I think.

TeenHollywood: There is one scene in which you are in a love clinch with your leading lady on top of a building and almost fall off. Was that you or a stunt man?

Adam: That was me. That was a tall building. That was a bit hairy. That was about sixty feet up. They did have some matting down below but I was basically roped on when I fell off. It was kind of fun. I’m up for that until I fall off and injure myself. I’ll be always up for it…and then I’ll sue.

TeenHollywood: What was it like working with film icon Jacqueline Bisset as your mom? Guys in the 1970’s had her hot posters on their walls.

Adam: She is so beautiful. It’s kind of crazy. It’s odd saying that about my ‘mother’ but then I had Drew Barrymore as my mother (in Riding in Cars with Boys) and she also really hot. It was great. (Jacqueline) is great.

She’s a wonderful actress and she’s wonderfully experienced as well. It was a real learning curve to see that she could just step on and her preparation. It’s always wonderful working with older actors because they have that access to experience and you just observe and try to pick up on.

TeenHollywood: Is there something film-wise on the horizon for you?

Adam: I did a film last year called Standing Still with Mena Suvari and James Van der Beek and Terence Stamp and a whole bunch of young actors. I shot that one at the end of 2003, beginning of 2004. Hopefully that will get released. I did a Miss Marple mystery (The Body in the Library) this year which was a big English movie and I got to hang out with Joanna Lumley.

TeenHollywood: Fascination is a very European style film. Did you get that feeling while making it?

Adam: Yeah. I guess European films are okay with taking that slight step further and they have that allowance. The sensibilities of American audiences aren’t set up for that. Recent, contemporary and popular filmmaking doesn’t like to do that because they don’t want to ostracize an audience. (Europeans are like..) ‘Oh. It’s okay. I’ll take off my clothes’.

TeenHollywood: Also many European films don’t tie all the loose ends up.

Adam: Yeah. Klaus definitely wanted to end this with a question. Why is he still into this girl? Why is he doing that? She’s hot and the truth is still not there. That’s the nice thing about a thriller that leaves you going …what?

Thank you Jill for submitting this article