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Sign of Chambers' time
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-03-12-chambers_x.htm
| Quote: | 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 http://www.us.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1044/Events/1044/wi20010123_JustinChambers_Granitz_139256.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Chambers,%20Justin 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." |
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