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Star Magazine, January 2001

Make room in your TV viewing schedule for new 'coming of age' drama and Dawson's Creek spin-off, Young Americans - coming to Channel 5 in March.  It's set in a New England boarding school, bringing together five students from very different backgrounds.  It's male stars are currently popping Hollywood's thermometer like no other actors in town.

Feast your eyes on these three cuties.  Twenty-two-year-old Rodney Scott plays Will Krudski, who wins a college scholarship.  Will is from a working class family and feels way over his head compared to his devilishly handsome and very privileged roomie, Scout Calhoun (21-year-old Mark Famiglietti).  Then there's the blue-eyed, eccentric Hamilton Fleming, played by newcomer, Ian Somerhalder, 21.

One gloriously sunny winter's afternoon, Star caught up with the lads at the ritzy Argyle Hotel on LA's famed, palm-tree lined Sunset Strip - fave watering hole for Johnny Depp, Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz.

Star:  So do you guys all get along then?
Ian:  Oh, we've gotten along since day one, which is rare on a show.
Mark:  Don't lie.  I hate him! (Ian bursts out laughing.)

Star:  What was your first day like on the set?
M:  I remember, on the first day of shooting, Rodney and I had to walk through a town in Baltimore in our underwear.
I:  Yeah, that was funny.
M:  You always see things in a script which you don't register until you're doing it.  Like if it says it's raining, you don't really register it until you're soaking wet and freezing your ass off.  And it's the same with walking through the town in your underwear.  It's like a real town with real people and you're in your underwear!
I:  And real underwear.

Star:  And you were in town in your undies because...?
M:  We get hazed.  To get into a fraternity - a men-only club in an American college - you have to go through an initiation process which is called hazing.  Basically, the leaders make you do stupid things to embarrass you, like walking through a town in your underwear.
I:  Yeah, hazing is a bull US tradition.
M:  When I was at NYU, there was a sorority [the female equivalent] across the street from my dorm, which I benefited from greatly.  During their week of hazing, they would flash me all the time.  I remember spending a whole day studying in my dorm room with my desk facing the window!
(Rodney bursts into the room eating a packet of crisps and licking his fingers.)

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