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"  Though James Marsden may be blessed with the looks of a guy who has never known rejection, Hollywood has deemed him plausibly dumpable\u2014in The Notebook and Superman Returns, he was bested by Ryan Gosling&amp;#039;s brooding pauper, then by Brandon Routh&amp;#039;s flying Kryptonian. But after seeing the 34-year-old Oklahoman in X-Men and Hairspray, who could rebuff a guy who can dance and melt stuff with laser eyesight? And even if Patrick Dempsey does win the princess in Disney&amp;#039;s fairy-tale-come-to-Manhattan fantasy, Enchanted, Marsden will always have wife Lisa Linde to love him, honor him, and assist him with tough interviews.  ELLE: If we assembled in one room all the girls you ever dated, and wouldn&amp;#039;t let them leave until they agreed on one thing to say about you, what would it be?  JAMES MARSDEN: First, there would only be about two of them in that room, and I would hope that they&amp;#039;d say I was always straightforward, honest, and a good kisser.  ELLE: So what&amp;#039;s the deal with that room being so empty? JM : I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we&amp;#039;ve been together since I was 22. Before that I had a girlfriend for about four years of high school and college. So I was always in these long relationships.  ELLE: Do you feel you were deprived of the quintessential famous-actor experience of sleeping with scads of women?   JM: No, I always feel like I dodged a lot of bullets in not having to go on blind dates or having to ask girls out. I think the whole dating thing is rough.  ELLE: Really? I just find it hard to believe there aren&amp;#039;t moments where you want to say, Honey, can I take a night off of marriage and feel what it&amp;#039;s like to be young, famous, and single?  JM: If we ever decided that there was room for that in our relationship, it would be like in Curb Your Enthusiasm, when for Larry&amp;#039;s 10-year wedding anniversary he gets to sleep with somebody else. It would probably take that form\u2014you get one, and I get one. ELLE: So, easy one first: Who&amp;#039;s your wife taking? JM: Maybe Brad Pitt, George Clooney. I could ask her, actually. I&amp;#039;m finding her now. Lisa! Where are you?...What? Yours would be Josh Hopkins? ELLE: Wait, who&amp;#039;s Josh Hopkins? JM: He&amp;#039;s my best friend. He&amp;#039;s on a new show called Swingtown. ELLE: Controversial. Ask her who she thinks yours would be. JM: She says Jessica Alba, but I don&amp;#039;t know. ELLE: She just gifted you Jessica Alba and you&amp;#039;re ambivalent? JM: No, I&amp;#039;m not ambivalent. Let me think.... Angelina Jolie does nothing for me. Yeah, I&amp;#039;ll just stick with Jessica Alba. ELLE: Since she&amp;#039;s there, tell me, when your wife is with her friends, what about you do you think she complains about? JM: I&amp;#039;m going to see if I can guess this right. Not helping as much with the kids as I should? She says no. Wanting sex too much? Not that either. Oh, that&amp;#039;s it: When I&amp;#039;m getting ready to start work on a job, I turn into a vegetable, like I&amp;#039;ve gotten a lobotomy. I always think that I&amp;#039;m going to mess it up and it will be my last job. So I check out for a couple weeks before I start. It drives her crazy. ELLE: Please provide a snapshot of your worst date ever. Your wife can help you out if you like. JM: I don&amp;#039;t actually even remember going on any dates. What, Lisa? Oh, yeah, that was a bad one. My wife and I had been going out for four years, and for her birthday I took her out to a nice restaurant. Then I gave her a tiny box that looked like a ring box, and inside were diamond earrings. I was so proud of myself that I&amp;#039;d gotten her jewelry for her birthday, I never even thought that she might be expecting something else\u2014like a ring. There&amp;#039;s actually a Polaroid of us taken at the dinner table, and you can see the little tears in her eyes. ELLE: Did she share her disappointment with you? JM: No! She didn&amp;#039;t tell me until three weeks ago. It never occurred to me. That&amp;#039;s how ridiculously ignorant I am. ELLE: Do you recall the first words you spoke to your wife? JM: &amp;quot;Hi, I&amp;#039;m Jimmy.&amp;quot; We were friends for about a year and a half before going out. She was actually dating a friend of mine. ELLE: Is the friend still a friend? JM: Ah, no. That was pretty much the end of it. He was a struggling actor then, but he went on to book a big TV show afterward, so I think he sees it as a blessing in disguise.  ELLE: Let me think. Big TV show. Was it...Isaiah Washington?JM: From Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy? No, it was a show on the WB. Lisa just said, `I wish it was him.&amp;#039; ELLE: Are there any unlikely places that make you amorous? JM: Eating at Nobu. But really, anytime I&amp;#039;m alone with my wife away from the kids gets both of us excited, because those times are so few and far between. The key is having a secret place in your house where you can sneak off to give each other love. ELLE: So just where is this secret place?  JM: Any place with a flat surface where they&amp;#039;re not. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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