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"  For actors, the word comeback can be so harsh, implying a rebound from a career reduced to car dealership openings or shilling Ozarks time-shares on cable. Since his big break in 1994&amp;#039;s Backbeat, Stephen Dorff never actually went anywhere; just last year, he could be seen wielding a tommy gun beside Johnny Depp in Public Enemies. So instead of &amp;quot;comeback,&amp;quot; let&amp;#039;s call what Sofia Coppola has given the 37-year-old a &amp;quot;brand repositioning.&amp;quot; Over the years, Dorff&amp;#039;s roles have often been overshadowed by his reputation as a raffish Hollywood boulevardier who parties on weeknights, dates scads of beauties\u2014Pamela Anderson, half the Elite Models roster\u2014and once famously did verbal battle with Jeremy Piven in a bathroom line. (It all started when Dorff allegedly cut in front of Piven. Seriously.) Now with Coppola&amp;#039;s gorgeous film Somewhere, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, we remember why Dorff was famous in the first place: He delivers a mesmerizing performance as Johnny Marco\u2014an actor, Chateau Marmont resident, and, well, Dorff-esque Hollywood boulevardier who finds his life and career at a crossroads.  ELLE: You took time off to take care of your mom before she passed away three years ago from cancer. Is there anything you wish she could have lived to see you do? STEPHEN DORFF: I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids. After I did Blade, everybody just wanted me to play a bad guy\u2014my mom would always be saying, &amp;quot;Why can&amp;#039;t you play a nice guy, like those Steve McQueen\u2013type parts?&amp;quot; Johnny Marco is everything my mom wanted me to play. I would have loved for her to have been with me on this journey, but more than that, I would have loved for her to know that I&amp;#039;m doing good. ELLE: Was she worried you weren&amp;#039;t okay? SD: Growing up, I was this rambunctious psycho boy, so she was always worried. I remember shooting in London and getting a FedEx from her. I thought it was my favorite American snacks, and I open it, and it&amp;#039;s 1,500 condoms in all different colors. ELLE: If you think of your mother when you look at a condom, I&amp;#039;m not sure if she was pushing safe sex or abstinence. You&amp;#039;ve got a storied history as a Hollywood bachelor. If I made you commit to an age when you&amp;#039;d get married, what would it be?  SD: Forty-five. I still need a few more years. ELLE: Does a future of monogamy scare you? SD: I&amp;#039;d be lying if I said it didn&amp;#039;t. ELLE: Fifteen years ago, your S.F.W. costar Reese Witherspoon said, &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t date Dorff for all the money in the world,&amp;quot; because not many women were able to hold your attention for long. Have you changed? SD: I don&amp;#039;t know. I do love girls, I&amp;#039;m not going to lie. I think at that time in my life I was as all over the place as any young guy would have been in my situation. I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models\u2014and you&amp;#039;d read about me dating a new starlet every month. That&amp;#039;s just where my life was. But I&amp;#039;ve grown up a lot. ELLE: I was impressed to read that some years ago you spied Carla Bruni at a fashion show and were so taken with her you left her a note at her hotel. She didn&amp;#039;t respond. Are you always so single-minded in pursuing women? SD: The truth is, whether it was a director or a part I wanted, I&amp;#039;m not afraid to go for it. But now I&amp;#039;d probably feel too shy. And she&amp;#039;s married to the president of France.  ELLE:  If you woke up possessing the ability to see the number of partners any given woman will have had by her thirtieth birthday, what would be too many in order to consider a serious relationship? SD: No more than 20. A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who&amp;#039;s had serious boyfriends, with maybe a wild phase where she had a couple one-night stands and that was that. Not the one who went for it like I did. ELLE: I understand Sofia Coppola said she was going to institute an &amp;quot;age cutoff&amp;quot; for women you date.  SD: Sofia said I should try to date women close to my own age\u2014not, you know, 19- or 20-year-old girls. I agree with her. ELLE: In Somewhere, sex is readily available for Johnny Marco, like when a beautiful woman on a balcony below sees him and immediately doffs her bikini top. What&amp;#039;s the most forward pass you&amp;#039;ve received?  SD: I was at a dinner party maybe five years ago. It might have been at my former lawyer&amp;#039;s house, and it was 15 or 20 people, some art collectors\u2014in no way a club atmosphere. There was a woman next to me who literally started trying to take my trousers off at the table. She didn&amp;#039;t look like the type; I guess she thought I&amp;#039;d be down for it, but I wasn&amp;#039;t. I had to move my seat. But I&amp;#039;ve never had crazy stuff like Johnny has, like synchronized strippers.  ELLE: Ah yes, the identical blond strippers with the matching &amp;quot;tramp stamp&amp;quot; lower-back tattoos. Speaking of, what&amp;#039;s the worst tattoo you&amp;#039;ve seen on a woman? SD: It was on a friend of mine. I have tattoo parties where an artist friend sets up shop in my living room, and friends will come by if they want something. I had a kind of family tattoo day after my mom passed. My aunt came over to get something about my mom. This friend visiting from out of town was like, &amp;quot;I want a tattoo.&amp;quot; And I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Are you sure? This isn&amp;#039;t henna. But if you really want something, do it.&amp;quot; It was the dumbest tattoo ever. On the back of her neck she got &amp;quot;Love Is Blind.&amp;quot; I said, &amp;quot;God, you&amp;#039;re going to regret that.&amp;quot;  ELLE: I thought you had to be in prison to get a neck tattoo. So was she remorseful? SD: I don&amp;#039;t know. I haven&amp;#039;t talked to her.  ELLE:  Do you regret any of your tattoos? SD:  There was one I rushed into. I got a lion on my back because I&amp;#039;m a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I&amp;#039;d researched the artwork a little more. My little sister saw it and said, &amp;quot;Why do you have the Lion King on your back?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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