James Marsden

I mean, for a while, it started getting more traction than I ever had intended, right?

I mean, there were roles in between all of those big projects where I wasn't playing the guy who doesn't get the girl or the simp or whatever, you know.

But it just so happens to be the ones that became big successes were those ones where the roles were, you know, whatever the movies I was playing, you know, the guy who ends up kind of getting cuckolded or whatever you want to call it.

And yeah.

It started to look pathological, like I was choosing these on purpose.

And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

This is not by design.

It just sort of happened that way.

So we didn't know Enchanted was going to be just a massive hit.

The notebook became like, you know, this still to this day is incredible how the legs that that movie has.

Um, yeah, I guess there was a realization at some point.

It's so funny, though, because I was not that guy growing up.

I really was not.

I was goofy.

I was, you know, I was the silly actor guy doing bits.

I didn't know how to get a good haircut.

I didn't care what I was wearing.

I just, you know, would have my shirt on inside out and mismatching socks.

And it just...

In Oklahoma, the girls want to jock who's the quarterback of the football team, a six-foot-two, corn-fed boy, and I was this 145-pound shrimp who just was like, I can do a good Mike Myers.