From: MXG, June 2000

As Maria on the hit WB show Roswell,Majandra Delfino
has been entrusted to keep a big secret:Three of her
fellow students are aliens and are hiding that fact
from the FBI,among others.But the real life Majandra
insists she's got no deep,dark secrets to hide when
the cameras stop rolling.

As partial proof,she offers us a glimpse inside her
underwear drawer,of all places."It's the only thing in
my room that's perfect.Every pair is folded just
right." Like at Victoria's Secret? "Even better," she
boasts,"Whenever anyone comes to my house,I show them
my underwear drawer because I'm so proud of it."
Freakish? Not exactly.But definitely quirky and
unique,traits that make this small screen star sparkle
among a slew of new TV teens.

Nonetheless,Majandra isn't so convinced she's a
standout actress."I'm not a real actress",she
insists."I don't find it my passion,I just thought it
would be really cool experience to be in a movie." So
at age 15,while attending a performing arts high
school to focus on her signing,Majandra started
sneaking behind her parents' backs to audition for a
local Miami talent agency.

"They would send me out on anything",she
says."Sometimes I'd go out for a role as a
40-year-old!" She eventually scored a callback on what
became her first movie,Zeus and Roxanne,forcing her to
hell her parents about her furtive auditioning.To her
surprise,her parents were supportive of her wanting to
act.They'd always suspected their daughter had a flair
for the dramatic,something Majandra attributes to
watching her favorite movie-The Last Unicorn-no fewer
than 80 times.Before long,she was quoting some of
movie's dialouge regularly."If there was a mean kid at
school,I'd be like,'He's cruel.He's not kind.'And I'd
recite it like it was poetry." You might say she was
training for her impending career.

Believe it or not though,Majandra actually dreams of
crunching numbers for a living."I love math.I'm so
left-brained,it's scary." Her cell phone rings an
odd,electronic,Latin-music inspired beep."The ring is
like called the Samba,and I love it!" she says
enthusiastically about her new phone that features
more than 40 different types of rings. "I wanted mine
to be really obnoxious.Brendan (Fehr) wants me to use
the rodeo one,and Jason (Behr) wants me to put it on
this Charleston thing."

From the way she talks about her co-stars,it's
obvious that the Roswell cast is a close-knit
crew. What will she do when they break for summer
hiatus? "I want to take scuba diving lessons and
horseback riding lessons and learn how to drum,but I
can see myself just watching TV every day". And maybe
wasting time with someone special? Motormouth Majandra
falls slient.We know what her underwear drawer is
like,sure,but perhaps we just stumbled on that
deep,dark secret she says doesn't exist.

The photoshoot crew engages in a game of 20 questions
to reveal Majandra's love interest.Is it someone from
the acting business? Yes.Would we know who this person
is? Maybe.From TV or the movies? Both.Despite the
prodding,she keeps mum about the indentity ,but she's
happy to talk about love in general.A self confessed
romantic,Majandra says she's attracted to guys with
the right combination of machismo and shy
soulfulness-think of Johnny Depp type. "I like a guy
who's a real guy,but not too much that he expects to
make me a hoagie while he watches TV",she says,and
then asserts that she doesn't want to get
married.Ever.

Something else that turns her off is when the guy
she's been hanging out with for a few weeks suddenly
declares his undying love.

Majandra's advice-even if
she's feeling the same way-is to stay slient. "True
love takes time to develop,and grows from friendship."
Speaking of friends,a disheveled Brendan Fehr
(Roswell's Michael Guerin),clad in a Metallica concert
tee and a black knit cap,stops by to hang out and wait
for Majandra to finish her interview.

Before she departs,she lets us in on a particular wish for her
career. "My dream is to be in a Got Milk? ad" she
says,sipping a glass of whole milk. "I drink about
four of five glasses a day.I must have the healthiest
bones." It seems a bit of an offbeat goal,just the
kind of thing to punctuate Majandra's unique
personality.

When Majandra's friend and co-star Brendan Fehr
unexpectedly showed up at her interview,we jumped at
the chance to hear the inside scoop.