Sign of Chambers' time By William Keck, USA TODAY
HOLLYWOOD — In the summer after his freshman year of high school, Grey's
Anatomy star Justin Chambers' childhood in Springfield, Ohio, was turned upside
down when his parents, Pam and John, both sheriff's deputies, were assigned to
investigate two grisly murders on the outskirts of town.
Justin Chambers plays a surgical intern on Grey's Anatomy and a
tough cop in the new serial killer film The Zodiac. By Dan MacMedan, USA
TODAY Chambers, 35, settles into a corner booth at a hip cafe not far from the
Hollywood Hills pad he shares with his restaurateur twin brother, Jason.
The actor orders a Cobb salad and a big chocolate milkshake, then opens up
about his "mischievous" childhood friend Rodney. A man in the neighborhood
thought Rodney and some other kids were stealing from him. "Then one day," he
recalls, "the old guy just flipped out and went to my friend's home and shot my
friend, his baby brother and their other siblings." Then later that summer,
"there was another incident where a woman and her son were butchered by her
boyfriend. That's as evil as it gets."
Chambers drew upon these mysteries and horrors while playing the role of a
protective father/police detective on the trail of the real-life 1960s Zodiac
serial killer in the film The Zodiac, opening Friday. (Another film about the
same case, called Zodiac, directed by David Fincher and starring Jake
Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman and Robert Downey Jr., will be released later this
year.)
"I went through a rough spiritual awakening doing this film, asking myself,
'Why does evil happen?' " Chambers says. He confides that the film's twisted
subject matter forced him to confront his faith in God. He emerged with a
renewed belief in both good and evil. "Evil lurks everywhere," he concludes.
"I've met people who have some serious, pathological issues with no conscience.
I think God gives everyone a meter, and it's up to you to choose right or
wrong."
At 18, Chambers left the mostly comforting confines of Springfield for Paris,
where he worked as a fashion model. But he spent little time living a life akin
to what he calls his "emotionally retarded" Grey's Anatomy playboy rogue, Alex
Karev (known in some circles as "evil spawn").
In fact, the line from Grey's theme song, "Nobody knows where they might wake
up," has not applied to Chambers since he was 22 and met his wife, Keisha, a
former booker for a modeling agency.
Chambers' 12-year marriage to Keisha is far more stable than Alex's
relationship with Izzie (Katherine Heigl), which the actor says will turn
"explosive."
During a recent break in filming, he surprised Keisha with a trip to the Turks
& Caicos Islands. "It was just us, with this huge spa, on the beach, with no
kids," Chambers says.
That provided a rare break for Keisha, who has been raising their five
children: Isabella, 11, twins Maya and Kaila, 8, Eva, 6, and Jackson, 4 — and
the family beagle, D'Artagnan, who is named after the lead character Chambers
played in The Musketeer— in the couple's New York home.
"I've been a parent most of my adult life, so I don't know any other way,"
says Chambers, who has coached his twin girls' soccer team. "But five is
enough."
With Grey's now a solid hit, the whole brood finally will join him in Los
Angeles this summer — in a rented house.
"I came out here for Grey's Anatomy and didn't know it would be such a
success," he says. "When it's over, I'm out! Back in New York, which will always
be my home."


http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-03-12-chambers_x.htm





~Purple~
jamesMitchellandDavidCanaryFans; RayMacDonnellFans;
RuthWarrickandEileenHerlieFans; generalhospitaladdicts; jamieraynewmanfans;
MaxieLuckyandGiafans; RobertLaSardoFans; ScottEganandRealAndrewsFans; SexisFans;
ScottCliftonandMfundoMorrisonfans; AllGHFanfic; SoapOperaDigest;
allsoapficandnews; MarkDobiesandMatthewTwiningFans;
PatriciaElliottandPhilipCareyFans; ReneeEliseGoldberryandTimothyDStickneyFans;
allkayfans; ChristopherDouglasandAmeliaMarshall_Fans;
BruceFrenchandKathleenNooneFans; PassionsFanFics; SoapOperaDigest;
allsoapficandnews; JohnAnistonJohnClarkeandFrankParkerFans;
RhasaanOrangeandTanyaBoydFans; ShawnMimiandMaxfans; PaulWasilewskifans;
JeffreyNordlingandEverCarradinelovers; OATree; ajcrocefans; Purple_Fanfiction;
Fanfic-Haven; BryanGreenberg_Fans; SarahBrownLovers

---------------------------------
Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate
in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]