{"id":1671,"date":"2001-03-14T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2001-03-14T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2008-08-01T20:30:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:30:36","slug":"desmond-in-fhm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/03\/desmond-in-fhm\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond In FHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for this:<\/p>\n<p>An update on Desmond Askew aka Brody Davis:<\/p>\n<p>In the American April 2001 issue of FHM, Desmond Askew<br \/>\nappears on page 137 in an ensemble picture with<br \/>\nClifton Collins Jr., Matt Schulze, and Simon Rex.<\/p>\n<p>On page 139 is a separate picture of Desmond in an<br \/>\norange shirt and the following caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDesmond Askew<br \/>\nAge: 21<br \/>\nStyle: The prickly Brit<br \/>\nHistory: After debuting in a Cadbury&#8217;s commercial at<br \/>\nthe age of 8, Askew went through all the usual British<br \/>\nactor rites of passage. But just as the work dried up<br \/>\nin London, he landed a plum role in Doug Liman&#8217;s Go,<br \/>\nand relocationed to Los Angeles. &#8220;In London, I<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t get arrested, but here, people were<br \/>\ninterested in meeting me just because I was playing<br \/>\nSimon in Go.&#8221;<br \/>\nUp next: Currently shooting a recurring role on the<br \/>\nsci-fi hit Roswell, having just completed filming in<br \/>\nRepli-Kate, from the makers of American Pie, due out<br \/>\nlater in the year.<br \/>\nHard luck story: &#8220;I&#8217;ve done my share of crap in the<br \/>\npast. When you&#8217;re young you don&#8217;t really know good<br \/>\nfrom bad. I was also a butcher at a grocery store for<br \/>\na while.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn Hollywood: When I arrived in LA, I steppeed off the<br \/>\nplane and went straight into a meeeting on the Sunset<br \/>\nStrip with the director of Go. I sat there facing a<br \/>\ndozen people auditioning me, trying to concentrate on<br \/>\nthe character, and all I&#8217;m thinking is, &#8220;Fucking hell,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in Hollyowood.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for this: An update on Desmond Askew aka Brody Davis: In the American April 2001 issue of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[631,571],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting","tag-desmond-askew","tag-fhm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}