Hayden’s happiness
Things are looking up for hayden Panettiere, both professionally and personally.
But i’m not hiding it neither am i creating more tension where they want to get at you even more because you’re not giving them what they want or what they think the public wants. So i’m a happy medium. How similar are you to the character you play in Nashville?
i love this role, and i feel i can relate so much because i was a young girl growing up in this industry. i have definitely made my share of mistakes, whether in public or behind closed doors so i can relate to her. And like your character Juliette, were you burned by the media as well?
Oh, absolutely. People had very preconceived notions about the kind of person i was supposed to be. Guilt by association.
i came up in the generation of the wild child. People my age were making very public mistakes or decisions and choices, and that’s what i was supposed to be doing. So when i was16, and Heroes came into play, literally overnight i had all that attention on me. they were waiting for me to fall on my face, make the same mistake that a lot of people had made.
i’ve had to fight against stereotyping for a very, very, very long time. i don’t know that i’ve overcome it yet.
Boxing is such a brutal sport. Are you secretly hoping Wladimir will quit after the baby is born? i want him to do whatever he wants to do. i think a great relationship is when you each have your own individual goals and lives, and they meet gracefully in the middle.
i would never want to be the reason why he quit – that’s his choice and his call.
i’ve seen this man over the past five or six years become better and better at what he does in a sport where getting older usually diminishes you. and boxing is not only about the physicality of it; the mental strength is equally important, and both of those things are just now being perfected by him.
i have so much respect for him, for what he does, his wisdom. He’ll know when it’s time – he’s a big boy.
He can take care of himself. i have that kind of faith in him, and when he fights i’ll be there as his biggest fan. Are you guys planning a weddding in the Ukraine?
right now with everything that’s going on, it’s like the farthest thing from my mind. it’ll happen when it happens. take my word for it.
i am not walking down the aisle 40lbs (18kg) overweight in a wedding dress. not happening.
Philip Berk, eight times President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, hobnobs with celebrities to report exclusively from Los Angeles.