FOX.com Host: Rachael has arrived to chat with us!

Rachael Leigh Cook: Hello everybody!

bunny: What are your current projects?

Rachael Leigh Cook: My current projects. We're in rehearsals, we start shooting the 21st of this month for Josie and the Pussycats for Universal.

Rachael Leigh Cook: It's gonna be great, we have an excellent cast. Tara Reid is the drummer and Rosario Dawson plays bass and Alan Cummings and Parker Posey are, I can't really say what they are...
Rachael Leigh Cook: They're sort of shady record executives.

Juniper: Hi Rachael! I want to know what we can expect from you in the future as far as the big screen...

Rachael Leigh Cook: Coming out next is a film I did in London last year called Blow Dry by the writer of The Full Monty, Simon Beaufoy, and directed by Paddy Breathnach.
Rachael Leigh Cook: That's coming out in I believe late September, and after that Get Carter with Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Mickey Rourke.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It's a remake of Michael Caine's 1971 original.
Rachael Leigh Cook: That's coming out I hear October 16th, but could change.

Draftsygirl: Rachael, what's it like to work with Parker Posey? I think she's great!!

Rachael Leigh Cook: She's excellent! I love her. She's what inspired me to start making independent films.
Rachael Leigh Cook: She's wonderful. She's just as cool as you think she'd be.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I met her when I worked for a few days on a film she did called House of Yes three years ago.
Rachael Leigh Cook: She's going to be great. We haven't started working yet. I didn't work with her before because I was playing her as a young girl.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It would be fun to do scenes with her.

TeenFan: That's a great movie! Who do you play in Get Carter? I don't remember a woman in it.

Rachael Leigh Cook: Oh no, it's a remake of the original. It's not out yet. Neither is Blow Dry.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Get Carter comes out I think October 16th. Blow Dry is late September.

TeenFan: Tell us what it's like to be nominated for a Teen Choice Award?

Rachael Leigh Cook: It's really exciting. I wasn't nominated this year. I'm just presenting.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It's a lot of fun. I went last year. Everyone has a good time, support their peers. It's a really fun night.

Easterbunny: Do you know what award you are presenting at Teen Choice? Are you presenting with someone else?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I don't know. I can't wait to find out.

Juniper: What do you think of The Teen Choice Awards? Aren't they really just a popularity contest?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I'm not sure. If people voting on what they like and the majority deciding on what the best thing is, then I guess yes. It's a popularity contest.
Rachael Leigh Cook: But things are popular for a reason.
Rachael Leigh Cook: So, popularity. I don't know. It's not about which movie made the most money, that's for sure.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It's not solely by acclaim or review. It's a popularity contest in the purest sense of the word.

blondie: You won an award last year for Teen Choice, right? Which one?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Freddie and I won Best Love Scene. Rachael Leigh Cook: I was like "Love scene, where was I?"

Duck2001: Was Freddy Prinze, Jr. cool to work with?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Freddie is great. There is not a more down-to-earth actor in this town.

qtpie: Who is the next "Hottie" that you want to work with?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I think I've been though them all. I made a movie with Ryan Phillippe in February called Anti-trust.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Josh Hartnett is in Blow Dry.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I'm trying to think of who's left. I really don't know.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I made a movie last month with Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Shawn Hatosy.
Rachael Leigh Cook: So, in answer to that question, I think Hollywood is pretty much out.

grape: Rachael, have you ever started to REALLY like one of your co-stars?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Yes, and that's all the information I'm going to give out on that subject.

SuperSport: Are you excited to go to the Teen Choice Awards?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Yeah, definitely. I was just going through my closet saying "Oh my God. What am I going to wear?"
Rachael Leigh Cook: A bunch of my friends from Minnesota are going with me.
Rachael Leigh Cook: My date and three of my closest friends.

draftsygirl: Rachael, who will be your date for the Teen Choice Awards?

Baby_Jane: Do you consider yourself a sex symbol or a teen "hottie"?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Nooo. I just walked into one of the cabinets in my kitchen. No, definitely not.
Rachael Leigh Cook: That's going to leave a mark.

grape: Who are you voting for at the Teen Choice Awards?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Hmmm. Let me see. I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I don't really know yet.

Alison: You should wear something not too fancy but not too casual.

Rachael Leigh Cook: I agree.

draftsygirl: Who do you want to meet while you're at the awards show?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I want to know who's gonna be there. I have no idea.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It would be cool to meet No Doubt.

MikeDaddy: Have you ever won any other awards?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I won a "Young Star" Award last year.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I won last year in the Santa Monica Film Festival for a film I did two years ago called The Hi-Line.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Other than that, no, I haven't won anything.

Alison: How many movies have you been in?

Rachael Leigh Cook: You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Rachael Leigh Cook: If you count a mini-series and another TV movie for CBS and one for Showtime, I'll be going into my 20th.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I did four things that went straight to video, two that just kind of bit the dust.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I've been working for a long time. I was 15, so it's five years now.

grape: Rachael, how did you get your start in acting? And how old are you?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I'm 20, the big 2-0...it's pretty weird.
Rachael Leigh Cook: When I was 15 I was doing print work in Minneapolis which is where I'm from, and I got an audition from my print agent that was going to be shooting in the area based on a story by William Carlos Williams set in a tenement in 1930s Baltimore.
Rachael Leigh Cook: And I'm not sure how I got the part, I just sort of said the words.
Rachael Leigh Cook: We all pretty much worked for free. I realized that I loved acting.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Luckily a manager heard about the short film and saw it and asked to meet with me and from that meeting asked me if I wanted to come out to L.A. and give it a try out here.
Rachael Leigh Cook: My first audition was for a film I did called The Babysitter's Club.

Sweetz411: What was your favorite movie to act in?

Rachael Leigh Cook: That's really tough.
Rachael Leigh Cook: It's always tough because sometimes there are great people but there are disasters left and right on the project.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Sometimes there are scary people around, but you love the character and you love the project.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Sometimes the people are great and the story is great, but you're in absolutely miserable conditions, location-wise or weather-wise.
Rachael Leigh Cook: So every project has its ups and downs.

hermione: What is your favorite movie in general?

johnboy: What's your favorite movie of all-time?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Probably either Lawrence of Arabia or This Is Spinal Tap.

Sebastien: Have you ever considered acting in films in France?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I would love to.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I would love to make a film in France. Send me the script.

easterbunny: Is it true you're going to be on Dawson's Creek next season?

Rachael Leigh Cook: No.

TeenFan: What kind of music do you like?

Rachael Leigh Cook: All kinds. All kinds. I like everything from Fugazi to Creedence.

fer_guera: What is your dream character to play?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I would just love to play someone really strong, really strong.
Rachael Leigh Cook: I'm usually cast as a victim of some kind.

fer_guera: Strong in which way?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Emotionally, a character who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go for it.

TeenFan: I'm from Minneapolis! Does it feel weird to go from the Midwest to Hollywood?

Rachael Leigh Cook: Yes, very. I don't miss the winters there though.

FOX.com Host: Unfortunately, Rachael is very busy, so we'll have to say good-bye shortly!

RCL_Fan: Do you have an official homepage? What's the address?

Alison: Do you have a Web site?

Rachael Leigh Cook: I think the official one is down temporarily, but it should be back in a couple of months.
Rachael Leigh Cook: But there are others out there, which I'm grateful for.

fer_guera: Thank you Rachael for your time and I wish I could meet you!

Rachael Leigh Cook: Cool, you guys are cool!

TeenFan: No! Don't go! We love you.

Rachael Leigh Cook: I love you too. See you at the Teen Choice Awards.

FOX.com Host: Thanks so much for being here with us!

Rachael Leigh Cook: Keep chatting, but don't forget to go outside. That's what my dad says: "Go outside! It's a beautiful day!" Here, anyway.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Wear your seatbelts, don't do drugs, don't drink and drive.
Rachael Leigh Cook: Good-bye!

FOX.com Host: Don't forget to log on tomorrow to check out the transcript of our FOX.com chat with Rachael Leigh Cook!

sourpuss44: Good luck!

TeenFan: It's beautiful here, too. We will all go out!!

SuperSport: Bye!

grape: Looking forward to seeing more of you!!!!