Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2008-02-25

Interview:
The second season of Dirt, starring Courteney Cox, will premiere on FX Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 10 PM ET/PT. Ian Hart, Josh Stewart and Alexandra Breckenridge also return as series regulars. Guest stars include Julian Acosta, Tom Arnold, Laura Allen, Ryan Eggold, Rick Fox, Ashley Johnson, Richard Karn, Sharon Lawrence, Will McCormack, Larry Miller, Jeffrey Nordling, Pablo Schreiber and Kevin Wheatley. Rosanna Arquette is a special guest star in episode 6.

Dirt, a dramatic satire of celebrity culture, reveals the life of Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox), the stalwart, unrelenting editor-in-chief of the celebrity tabloid magazine Dirt Now. With an uncanny sixth sense for the truth and an infallible instinct for cover-ups, Lucy exposes the secrets and lies of the famous and the infamous through her magazine with rancorous accuracy. Thanks largely to exclusive, revealing pictures of reigning celebrities captured by ardent photographer Don Konkey (Ian Hart), Dirt Now exhibits show business imagemaking to reveal the often-repugnant truth behind ambition, fame and yearning.

We had the extreme honor of sitting down with the talented and amazing Courteney Cox, and here's what she had to say:

This season feels a little bit more ripped from the headlines, and we were just curious to know if that was something of a conscious choice, just following the past year of what's gone on, or if it was just accidental?

No, it's absolutely a choice. We thought that would be a good way to just start the season, and it is absolutely ripped from the headlines. We usually do a hybrid of celebrities and then add to the story like maybe what happened to cause this to happen to them or sum it up in a different way just for fun. But yes, it's definitely relatable this year and I think it makes for just a more exciting television show.

You seemed to have a great year last year, was there some feedback that made you say we do need to lighten it and funny it a little bit this year?

I think it's just more making it relatable. Last year I thought was really interesting, and we had kind of the subject was about the Apocalypse and it was heavier. This year we just want it to be a little bit more of a broader appeal. I think the people who loved Dirt last year will hopefully love it this year, but there will be just more of an audience because the people who read US and In Touch and all those tabloid magazines I think will get a kick out of the show.

Right now we have some story lines that are a little bit a la Nicole and Paris and David Hasselhoff, are there any other celebrities that we can expect to see something from? Any little tidbits you can give us on that?

Well, there is definitely going to be, in almost every episode you'll see something that you will recognize, and that's kind of hopefully the fun of it that you'll be able to guess who this person we might be talking about, even though it's not really about them. It could be about, like I said before, just a couple of people or a couple of situations. But yes, every episode there is that relatable story line.