Never let it be said that Heather Graham has been demure in her choice of movie roles. She’s played the love interest in Boogie Nights and The Guru, while in From Hell she starred as an Irish prostitute who gets intimate with Johnny Depp.
She was Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers, and in Gray Matters she discovers she’s a lesbian and gets in a clinch with Bridget Moynahan. However, her latest movie is possibly her most demure outing to date.
The actress donned a daring blue dress to attend the London premiere of her new movie, The Hangover.
Split to the thigh and cut away on one side, the gown clung to the 39-year-old’s every curve as she posed for photographers.
She teamed the dress with gold strappy heels and a chunky gold bangle, and had her blonde hair falling around her shoulders in soft waves.
Despite her sophisticated appearance, she wasn’t afraid to risk a wardrobe malfunction as she let her male co-stars pick her up on the carpet.
They then attempted to lift the somewhat heavier Zach Galifiankis, with apparently much less ease.
Heather stars as a stripper and a prostitute in The Hangover alongside Bradley Cooper, Mike Tyson, a lion and a chicken.
She plays a single mother mixed up with a bunch of bachelor partygoers who wake up in Las Vegas with no memory of the night before.
Earlier this week, Heather wore another eye-catching outfit to the Dublin premiere of the comedy, which was a surprise smash at the US box office last weekend.
She made sure all eyes were on her in a strapless Herve Leger body-con dress with cut-outs which ran from her bustline to the very short hem of her dress.
The actress stepped out in the thigh-skimming number on the red carpet, later moving on with castmates and her boyfriend, director Yaniv Raz, to the afterparty at the Odessa Club.
The Hangover is out in UK cinemas now.
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Update
In The Hangover, the most delightfully demented comedy to hit the screen for years, she stars alongside Bradley Cooper, Mike Tyson, a lion and a chicken. Graham plays a single mother mixed up with a bunch of bachelor partygoers who wake up in Las Vegas with no memory of the night before.
In person, Graham proves to be as arrestingly off-kilter as most of her previous roles suggest. Born in Milwaukee and raised near Los Angeles by her schoolteacher mother and a father who was an FBI agent, her entire career might be read as an act of rebellion against her strict Catholic background.
Now 39, but looking ten years younger, she is dating the director Yaniv Raz. Previous boyfriends include Kyle MacLachlan, Adam Ant, James Woods and Heath Ledger. She divides her time between homes in New York and Los Angeles.
I’m a demon poker player.
For years I’ve had friends over to my house for poker sessions. Or I’ll go to poker clubs. I hardly ever lose money. I don’t play for huge stakes – I’m too cautious for that. But I’ve often won hundreds of dollars. I always play sober. My weakness is a tendency to get too competitive, which means I lose my edge. I’m waiting to be invited to the tournaments that Brad Pitt organises. But I’d need to be careful. Those guys play for high stakes. I’d be afraid of running a losing streak and ending up writing out huge IOUs.
When I was a child my parents threatened to send me to a convent.
I’ve often wondered how that would have worked out. I’d have made a terrible nun. I’m a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I’m not that good at all. If the church is having a hard time recruiting nuns, I’d make an ideal poster girl. ‘Become a nun or else end up like her!’
You haven’t lived until you’ve tried tantric sexual healing.
I first got into it when I was filming The Guru in 2002 and I haven’t looked back. What most people know about tantric sex is that Sting does it and it lasts eight hours. But he’s not having sex continually. You can take a bath, massage your partner, listen to music. The idea is that you let the whole thing build very slowly until finally you merge with your partner. It works for me.
My next ambition is to teach myself to levitate.
So far I’ve only succeeded in my dreams. I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you’re meant to lift off the ground. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ll manage it one day. In fact, I’m aiming beyond levitation. I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won’t be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.
Don’t ask me to help you with your tax returns after spending the night with me.
It happened to me a couple of years ago. I was dating this guy and we spent the night together. Afterwards he turned to me and asked if I could help him with his tax. It was like, ‘Now you’ve spent the night, can you cook me some food and sort out my tax?’ I said, ‘Are you crazy? I don’t even do my own tax returns.’ Needless to say, it didn’t last long between us.
I’m a technological dunce.
I’ve never gone on Facebook, MySpace or any of those things. Why would I want to Twitter? Who would be interested in the fact that I’m about to brush my teeth? I’ve got a BlackBerry and that keeps me more highly strung than I need to be. Bliss to me is being away from all technology. I’ve just come from a yoga retreat in Mexico. I didn’t use my BlackBerry or go on my computer for nine days. I can’t say I missed any of it.
Outside of acting I’m useless at pretty much everything.
I’m the last person you want to turn to if you need help putting up a shelf or fitting a carpet. The only thing I’m OK at is planting vegetables.
September 11 was my biggest nightmare.
I was flying into New York that morning from the Toronto Film Festival. I’d bought an apartment in Manhattan and I was due to move in that day. We were flying towards New York when I could see this huge black cloud over the city. The first plane had hit the Twin Towers but nobody knew what was happening at that stage. We landed and I was in the baggage-claim area when the second plane hit the towers. There was general panic. After going through something like that, you never take anything for granted again.
I’d sooner grow old disgracefully than gracefully.
I can see myself as a naughty old lady. I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I’d rather have fun. I want to stay saucy and sexy like Susan Sarandon, Charlotte Rampling and Helen Mirren. I want to be vamping it up in short skirts and low-cut tops right to the end. But I won’t be taking my clothes o ff in movies at that stage. Unless, of course, I still look really hot. – The Mail
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