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DIRT, the edgy drama featuring Hollywood scandals ripped from the headlines, starring Courteney Cox as 'Lucy Spiller', the unrelenting editor-in-chief of the tabloid magazine Dirt Now is back for a second season with more gossip and scandal than ever before!
Dirt premieres on Showseries and is on every Thursday and Friday at midnight. Courteney Cox talks to GulfWeekly
How would you describe the show?It's dark, salacious and sexy. I haven't seen a TV character so forthright for a long time.
Why would you of all people want to do a show about tabloids and the paparazzi?
When I was pregnant, I was harassed by the paparazzi because they are completely obsessed with babies. I got into major fight-or-flight mode.
My hormones were raging, I couldn't get calm, and I did stupid things. They were chasing me from the front, the back, the side, and I tried to outrun them. It was terrible.
What is the dumbest thing the tabloids ever printed about you?
Back in the day, when they said I was anorexic. I could not be further from anorexic. I love food way too much.
Jennifer Aniston guests stars later in the series, what was it like being reunited?
It was fun. Jennifer loves Dirt and played a great character. But I don't see the Friends appearing. We support each other in what we do, but we don't appear in each other's things as it becomes about that and not the show.
Will her run-ins with the tabloids - and those of your other famous friends - become script fodder?
Well, one friend of mine was on her honeymoon, and a photographer literally dug himself into a hole - I called it a grave - and covered himself and took pictures. We used that in the opening shots.
Your husband, David Arquette, has his own series In Case of Emergency. How do you make time to see each other?
Right now it is hard. We are working the same long hours; and when he gets done he wants to go to a Lakers game, and I don't blame him.
So right now it is difficult as far as being able to connect. But we work together really well, and we are doing great considering the circumstances.
Will there ever be a Friends reunion?
It would be fun, but the chances of getting everybody together are so slim. So do I think it will happen? Absolutely not.
Was it a big adjustment going from a network sitcom to a gritty hour long show?
Yes, it was a big adjustment; the hours are so much longer - you're under the gun as we shoot each episode in seven days.
There is a lot of pressure but its good pressure and its fun and exciting. The biggest difference I think from doing a sitcom to a film show is that however your feeling that day you can work it into your character but regardless of how you feel on a sitcom you have to come in with a smile on your face. In some ways I like this a lot more.
Was part of the appeal of taking this role to break away from the role of Monica?
I defiantly wanted to do something different but this was a show that appealed to me, it was a show that our production company came up with and we pitched it to the studio and they changed it more about a tabloid and they wanted a female as the lead role.
And this is even before I even thought I was going to be on the show. It was just an idea we had.
And then, once we hired a writer, I thought this is a really interesting character - something I would like to be a part of.
Were you apprehensive at all after playing Monica for so many years?
No, not at all! It was a nice change to play a different character and she's so hard and strong it was just a great change.
Does Dirt closely resemble what you and your friends have to experience from the press?
Absolutely! We think we're coming up with these outrageous stories that could never happen and then a few weeks later something just like it actually does.
You really can't go too far in a show like this because what is going on in the world is insane.
