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» Articles » TV Guide: Marilyn Impersonator's Glory Days (January 29, 2002; by Daniel R. Coleridge)
Despite her splashy turn as Marilyn Monroe in the CBS miniseries Blonde, Poppy Montgomery admits she rarely turns heads on the street. "There were all those billboards, and I was on the cover of TV Guide," she says, "but no one ever recognizes me.
"One day," the 29-year-old Aussie recalls, "I was standing in the checkout line at the market. This woman starts talking to me and gesturing with the TV Guide that I was on the cover of — and she had no idea. I felt like saying, 'It's me! It's me!' She had no clue."
Getting spotted as the icon's portrayer, she muses, "would be a compliment. Marilyn was so beautiful. But I don't think I look like her, obviously. You wouldn't go, 'Wow! Now there's a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.' Instead, people go, 'That was you?' — like they're all disappointed! I'm like, 'Yes... I had lighting, hair and makeup.' I get a little defensive, like, 'What do you mean?'"
Well, it's hardly as if the affable star of Glory Days (airing Wednesdays at 9 pm/ET on the WB) isn't gorgeous. In fact, their pretty faces may be why she and co-star Eddie Cahill strain credibility (just a touch) in their roles as a forensic scientist and a crime novelist, respectively. "I don't know that people assume that attractive people are stupid," she says, "but there's more a perception that they don't have to try so hard. So yeah, it's a little difficult to buy.
"I probably don't look like a coroner," she adds, smiling. "But that's TV. It's make-believe."
[source: tvguide.com]