The Original Adam Garcia

SHIRTLESS: HOLLYWOOD’S SEXIEST MEN

 

This original program aired on American Movie Classics  (US cable television channel) June 3-9, 2002


From Cary Grant to Brad Pitt, SHIRTLESS: HOLLYWOOD’S SEXIEST MEN explores a century of silver screen heartthrobs and why we love them…..

10 minutes into the program

Announcer: Coming up next, meet two young actors whose obvious sex appeal has caught Hollywood’s eye.

(Cut to a shirtless Adam outdoors under a patio umbrella in a rainy Puerto Rico)

Yes, it’s thunder and lightning and things very, very frightening, indeed.

Announcer: And we’ll take a look at why Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and other men from Down Under have Hollywood all hot and bothered.

 

  16 minutes into the program

Announcer: Men and the movies. Over the years, Hollywood has given us a grand assortment. 

(Announcer continues while the COYOTE UGLY bar dance is shown)

Adam Garcia is one of its latest additions.  He burst onto the scene dancing on a bar in the movie COYOTE UGLY.  Since then, he’s starred with Drew Barrymore and on the London stage. 

(Cut to scenic pan of the scenery in Puerto Rico, through some foliage towards the ocean)

His 6th film was shot on location in Puerto Rico.

Well, here we are in Puerto Rico.   

(Adam walking towards entrance)

Well, this is where I live, ah, for the moment, here in Rico.  I mainly sleep when I’m not working.

(Adam holds open the door to a stairwell)

It’s not much of a house tour really, isn’t it?

(Out on a wet patio, under a patio umbrella)

It’s great being here in Puerto Rico’ cuz I get to surf, which is brilliant. 

Yes, it’s thunder and lightning and things very, very frightening, indeed.

(Various clips taken indoors on HEART OF STONE set are shown while Adam continues)

We’re filming a film called HEART OF STONE and, it’s kind of hard not to give everything away because it’s.… it is a thriller.

I was into action films when I was a kid.  Every kid that wanted to be any sort of action hero, it was…..

(Montage of Harrison Ford roles)

Harrison Ford…. because he was Han Solo.  He did all the Star Wars, which I was TOTALLY  addicted to, and then he did all of the Raiders of the Lost Ark stuff as well.

(Switch to a very young Mel Gibson in the Road Warrior trailer)

Probably the other classic god of action films was Mel Gibson……Mad Max……

(Back to a grinning Adam sitting indoors)

cracking stuff.

 

19 minutes into the program

Jenny Cooney, a member Hollywood Press Association with an obvious Australian accent:

(Cut to publicity still of Adam dancing at surf’s edge in BOOTMEN)

“Adam Garcia is just a completely charming example of

(Cut to official RICWB press kit publicity still)

the Australian don’t-care-what-I-say kind of guy.  Maybe Russell is a little more  prickly around the edges, Adam knows how to be

(Cut to COYOTE UGLY publicity still of Violet and Kevin on a crowded NYC street corner)

Suave… and charming… and it’s not a fake.  Certainly he can

(Cut to still of BOOTMEN finale tapping in the water)

ride the wave of people thinking if you’re Australian, you’re hot.  And had the

(Cut to still of a dry Adam in the BOOTMEN finale)

talent enough, that can deliver him to the next level.”

(Adam sitting indoors in Puerto Rico)

The roles that I would want to play would be a varied as I could possibly get to do and I guess that’s part of that challenging myself as well.

Um, you know, I’d like to play the villain.  I’d like to shoot some aliens and stuff like that….. Especially anything.  I mean there’s so many roles out there that interest me.  And if they involve shooting an alien as well as kissing a pretty girl - that’s the job for me!

(Coyote Ugly Publicity still of Kevin sitting on bar’s edge)

Announcer:  The men of Australia have been providing us

(switch to photos of other Australian actors)

with a fresh take on some of Hollywood’s most traditional types of men – the Man’s Man, the Ladies’ Man and the Hero.

 

  57 minutes into the program

(Adam sitting indoors in Puerto Rico)

In most of the early roles I’ve ever played, I played the sidekick more than a leading man.  I only started playing the leading men in the last couple of years. 

(Repeat footage of Adam on the wet patio, under the umbrella)

And then when people said, “Oh no, you should be the lead,” I’m like, “No, no, no, no, no, no.”  

(Back indoors)

That means I’d have to be serious.

Thanks to Jill for transcribing and for submitting this.

 

 The Original Adam Garcia

 

 The Original Adam Garcia

 

 The Original Adam Garcia

 

  The Original Adam Garcia

 

  The Original Adam Garcia