"Don't Mess With" Adam and Emmanuelle!
Jun 6, 2008 - Lynn Barker
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It's been a while since we've seen actor/funnyguy Adam Sandler create a new comic character in film. In You Don't Mess with the Zohan, he gives us a crack Israeli army commando who secretly just wants to style hair as his alter ego Scrappy Coco! I'm not kidding! The zany comedy co-stars beautiful Emmanuelle Chriqui (Usher's love interest in his film In the Mix) as Dalia, a hot brunette of Palestinian descent, who owns a beauty salon and gives the unlikely soldier/haircutter a stylist job.
We wondered how a crazy group of Jewish and Arab actors got along on set (very well, evidently) and how Emmanuelle held up when surrounded by wacky, improv-ing male comics. Does humor conquer hate and distrust? Adam and Emmanuelle would like it to be so. Most of the film takes place in a combo Jewish/Arab neighborhood in New York City where the residents seem to get along just fine until greedy outsiders intervene to comic effect.
Picture "the Zohan" in a strange haircut (very close on the sides and longer on top) jeans and a red t-shirt by Puma. Emmanuelle had a gypsy vibe going in a pretty, cream-colored, low-cut blouse with ruffles, accessorized by big silver hoop earrings. Let's start with dishing the clothes.....
TeenHollywood: You have a great kind of gypsy look going today. Did you like Dalia's wardrobe in the film? Like, would you wear any of it?






