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Mutt and Josh
May 2001 Premiere Magazine

It's hard to tell who's been generating the most excitement on the set of Lone Star State of Mind: Is it John Mellencamp, who spent a week there shooting a cameo, or Shumba, star Joshua Jackson's dog? Right now, it's Shumba, and Jackson excuses himself to nab the pooch before he attacks the lunch tent. "Thats his one bad habit. He's a terrible mooch." Jackson says. "But he comes with me everywhere." Having his black mixed-breed on set has been quite a creature comfort for the actor, who is enduring a pretty hectic schedule these days: Mondays and Tuesdays, he's in NC, playing the smart aleck Pacey on Dawson's Creek, the rest of the week, he's in Austin, starring in the feature debut of his friend and onetime Dawson's producer-director David Semel.

Jackson plays a car mechanic who's content with his small-town existence until his fiancee, Baby (model-turned actress James King), convinces him to move to LA so that she can break into soap operas. "She has a dream, she has ambition, she's inspirational," says King, who, with this roleand another in Pearl Harbor, has made the transition to movies pretty successfully. "I totally understand where she's coming from." Naturally, however the couples adventure gets off to a rocky start. Before they even hit the rode, they have to get out of a mess they've been dragged into by Baby's dim-witted, drug-dealing cousin (DJ Qualls of Road Trip).

Semel says the script literall fell into his lap while he was having dinner with a TV producer friend, who had received it as resume material froma hopeful small-screen writer. "I loved the intelligence of the humor," Semel says. "It has an element of the Coen brothers." The project was already active at the Independence Bedford Falls Productions. Semel campaigned, won the job, and quickly recruited Jackson, with whom he had been looking to make a film for years.

Collaborating with Mellencamp (who plays Baby's father) was an equally harmonious arrangement. Semel, who categorizes himself as a "frustrated musician," brought his own guitar to the set as a prop for the rocker, who would entertain the cast and crew btwn takes. One day, when he thought no one was looking, Semel picked up the guitar. "I just startedplaying this little blues riff," he says, "and john walked around the corner and started singing. All I kept thinking to myself was, 'Don't f*ck up. Don't f*ck up."

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