Marie has been getting a lot of coverage this year and Chris Betros of Metropolis Magazine/JapanToday.com recently interviewed the talent (in English) recently.  Here is an excerpt from Chris interview:

It’s the end of a busy day for Marie. The 21-year-old model and TV personality has just finished recording a two-hour entertainment program for cable TV. It’s 9 p.m., but Marie still looks fresh and cheerful as she sits down for an interview, a little surprised that an English publication is interested in doing a feature on her.

Born to a Japanese mother and French-Canadian father, Marie starts off in hesitant English, but picks up the pace as we proceed. “I hardly use English,” she says. “I was born in Tokyo and grew up only speaking Japanese. I went to Melbourne when I was 13 or 14 and spent a year there but couldn’t communicate much at all. It wasn’t until I went to high school in Milwaukee that I started to get better at English.”

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Model and talent Marie (21) promoted the release of the first volume of the American high school drama “Veronica Mars” DVD series in Japan on the 27th.  The DVD goes on sale in Japan on September 10th.  The box set for Season 1 goes on sale in Japan on October 8th.

“Veronica Mars” stars Kristin Bell as Veronica Mars, a daughter of a former sheriff and a former popular student who has been ostracized by the community after her parents separation and after her best friend Lilly was murdered and her father arrested the father of the most powerful family in town.

Veronica starts her life over as a teenager who helps her father’s detective agency to find out who murdered her best friend.

The series received positive reviews for its first season but in the end, “Veronica Mars” only lasted three seasons in the US and ended in 2007.  Kristin Bell would later move to another hit series “HEROES” season 2 in 2008.

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