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— by Larry Carroll
Deadly, Evil-Bashing Supervixens ... Dangerous Effeminates Bringing Sassiness ... Double-Edged Beauties Spying. Sure, the secret government organization known as D.E.B.S. actually stands for Discipline, Energy, Beauty, Strength, but any of those other descriptions would fit just as well. On March 25, these teenage girls with short skirts and long guns hit movie theaters in a comedy thriller that promises to speed up pulses in more ways than one. We spoke with two of their top agents, Meagan Good and Sara Foster, to learn about SAT scores, digitally altered undergarments, and why Charlie's Angels had better not step to them.
[Editor's note: Good and Foster were posed similar questions separately, and their answers were combined for this piece.]
MTV: So, what exactly are the D.E.B.S.?
Sara Foster: The D.E.B.S. are a fun group of girls who have genuine love for each other, and who are kind of all brought together to fight crime.
Meagan Good: The D.E.B.S. are like the CIA or the FBI, except they come in Catholic [school]girl uniforms and took a test that was hidden in the SATs that helped them, or the powers that be, to realize that we are the perfect cheaters, liars and killers.
MTV: This movie is being described as "Charlie's Angels" with teenage girls.
Good: The whole D.E.B.S. thing kind of reminds me of like "Charlie's Angels" meets "Austin Powers" meets "Bring It On."
MTV: What were your thoughts when you first saw the uniforms?
Good: My character, Max, like, my outfit was totally her because it was the combat boots, it was the skirt that was short, but it wasn't as short as [co-star] Devon [Aoki]'s skirt, and I had the wife-beater. I had to pump up and get a little muscle for it so I could look like a little superhero.
Foster: The first time I saw the outfits, my first thought was "I need a trainer; these skirts are really short." I remember I said to the costumer, to the wardrobe people, "Do you think I could maybe wear some nylons?" But my skirt wasn't as short as some of the others, as Devon's.
MTV: So they had you guys hit the gym pretty hard, then?
Good: Yeah, it was like my first time, really. I'd never really worked out, and so for that role I went [to the gym] for probably about four months and drank protein shakes and everything to put on some weight so I could get some muscle-y arms or muscle-y legs.
MTV: Wearing those tiny skirts, jumping in and out of vehicles and running around, there must have been some pretty revealing outtakes.
Good: Oh yeah. We had a lot of stuff digitally removed.
MTV: So who wins in a fight: the D.E.B.S. or the Angels?
Foster: Oh my God, the D.E.B.S. because those Charlie's Angels, you know, they ... our looks are deceiving. We're a lot tougher than we look. We all might be small, but we have the mental willpower. Not that the Charlie's Angels don't, but I'd say this: There's four of us and three of them. It's us for sure.
Good: I'd say the D.E.B.S., because you haven't seen our best moves yet. We've got "D.E.B.S. II" coming.
MTV: So there's already talk of a sequel? And you'd both be coming back?
Good: Uh-huh.
Foster: I think our director has a sequel. I know she has it in her head. I think she's in the process of writing it. This movie is coming out, and I think it's the kind of movie that you're going to get it or you don't, and the people that get it are going to go back and see it multiple times. I already know people who have seen it more than once, just kind of going from festival to festival. We're not trying to make "The Godfather" here. We're not trying to cure cancer; we're having fun. The biggest compliment I got was from someone who said, "I literally didn't even realize it — I had a smile on my face from beginning to end." And that's the biggest compliment you can get, you know? If the movie does well then I think there's a good chance to make a sequel.
MTV: What real-life mission would the D.E.B.S. be perfect for?
Foster: I think if anyone could find Bin Laden, it's us. We could just coax him with our — with [Meagan]'s good luck, my charm, be like, "Come on. It's OK. We're not going to tell."
MTV: So, Meagan, how did you score the biggest gun in the movie? Did you pay off the prop guy?
Good: Actually, it was kind of pre-thought of, except they didn't expect the person who got Max to be as small as I am, but it actually worked out. In between takes I would use the gun as a weight to build muscles on my arm. When I went to the shooting range to start shooting, they were like, "You know, I think this gun is going to be a little heavy for you. Let's just give you a smaller one." I was like, "No, no, I'll take this one." [It was] actually pretty heavy, but it kind of added to her character, having the whole Napoleon complex.
MTV: These girls are recruited by the government through a secret test built into the SATs. How did you score, back in the day?
Foster: I didn't do that bad, to be honest with you. I was really nervous and I didn't prepare as much as I probably should have. I think I got like a 1,250, which when I was taking the test was pretty normal, but nowadays, you know, it's normal to get a perfect score. It was unbelievable, and now getting a 1,600 is not that odd. It used to be [if] you get a 1,600 you'd be in the newspaper. Now it's like people are getting the perfect scores all around.
Good: I did pretty good. I actually went to home school because I was working on a children's show on Nickelodeon. I did pretty decent, though. We'll leave it at that.
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Photo: Samuel Goldwyn Films
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