This week, millions of people will watch Sabina Gadecki's first nude scene in the Entourage movie, in theaters today. As the 31-year-old actress prepares to move to a different Los Angeles apartment, Esquire interrupted her packing to make her acquaintance. And though Kevin Connolly's real-life girlfriend described herself as both a worrier who can't carry a tune and a "giant pain and the ass," we were thoroughly charmed.
You recently attended an Entourage screening at The Playboy Mansion. Your first scene in the movie is pretty bold—a sex scene with lots of nudity. What was it like watching that scene with Playboy bunnies?
That didn't affect me in any capacity. Watching it with my family last week in New York was terrifying. It was a big, massive mistake—no, I'm just kidding. It was my mom and my dad, my sister-in-law, my brother, my aunt, my uncle, I prefaced them on the way in. "When you hear this dialogue happening, put your head down. You've got a good 30-second window. You just have to look down until you hear these words, 'I need more money, gotta go, bye.'" Everybody seems to be on the same page. So in the theater, I'm sitting a couple rows away from them, anticipating the moment. I'm like, "You guys, it's coming." They're like, "No problem." The scene comes on, I look back, my whole family's watching!
For that scene, what kind of undergarment did they give you?
It was the most uncomfortable thing ever. Basically a paper panty [laughs]. And I've never filmed something like this ever in my life, so of course there was the anxiety that came with that. Thank God it was the last scene we filmed.
They usually film sex scenes right at the beginning of a shoot, don't they? Because it's so awkward.
I was supposed to have three weeks to prepare for this scene, so I hired this awesome trainer that I work with here in L.A., Grace Lazenby. And all the sudden, they call me on a Friday like, "We're shooting on Monday." There was nothing you can physically do to get yourself in shape. So yeah, they did technically put it [near the start of shooting] to get it out of the way, I just wish I had more of a heads up. But it was my last scene of working on set with everybody.
"It was the most uncomfortable thing ever. Basically a paper panty."Do remember how many takes you did?
I actually think maybe four or five. Everyone was hungry, I was starving, Kev was starving, everybody was grumpy, and the sun was setting and we're trying to get this scene done. We hit a couple different roadblocks, but I'm glad we didn't have to come back for [another] day of shooting that scene because there was nothing incredibly fun about it. It's just awkward, and a lot of people keep giving directions.
How did you get discovered? Did you have something that you consider your big break?
I've been acting for years, so I've done Law & Order, White Collar, The League. I did a movie a few years ago called Freaky Deaky with Christian Slater and Billy Burke. I auditioned originally for a smaller role in the [Entourage] movie. I actually auditioned for three different characters and ultimately they brought me in five different times. My last audition was the most intimidating of them all. They brought me in for the table read. I still didn't have the offer. And the first time I speak in the movie is, you know, our little awkward—
After we've seen your butt.
Yeah. So talk about trying to have chemistry in the room where Kevin was sitting about 20 feet across from me, and here it is, another fifth audition, and I'm trying to prove myself.
"I have this false sense of confidence that I could beat the shit out of someone."In the movie your character's involved in an elaborate practical joke. Are you a practical joker?
One of my girlfriends recently did not want to have a bachelorette party in any capacity—she's mortified by them—but it was around her birthday, so we threw her a surprise bachelorette party in Palm Springs. And she showed up, and it just was that humiliating, embarrassing thing where we forced her to wear those awful, awful, awful penis crowns and necklaces and boas.
Did you have a male entertainer?
I actually wanted to get a female entertainer—I think the male entertainer would have creeped me out a little bit. No one was for that [either].
I saw on your Twitter page that you're uncomfortable with the idea of men taking selfies. Why?
Man selfies, not a big fan of those. I feel like in every picture you can tell the man is uncomfortable. You always see the man trying too hard, flexing too hard or whatever the case may be. I just think that when you see a beautiful woman looking cool, it's different to take a selfie. But as a guy it makes me a little uncomfortable. I think it's just a no-go. Use some pics with your friends and crop everyone out or something.
Tell me something about you that's not perfect.
Well, I'm a giant pain in the ass, that's for sure.
No! How?
I must be. I just worry about everything. I have a really hard time just going with the flow. I think that's a giant downside. We all have a list of things that we find imperfect about ourselves. I always thought I had talent singing—I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I do karaoke. Everyone's always like, "You have the cutest voice. It's so funny when you sing." And then I just started to realize that I absolutely suck. The only reason that I'd been singing at all was I kind of thought for all these years that I had a little knack for it. No one told me until recently that I'm terrible. One of my friends was like, "Babe you kind of have bird voice. I love you but you have a little bit of a bird voice when you sing."
What's your karaoke song?
I really like Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer." And that's vocally challenging, so talk about pairing that up with a girl with a bird voice. And I love Drake. I tried to rap "[The] Motto" in karaoke. And I was atrocious. It's really hard to breathe and keep up with the lyrics. It was a big giant letdown for me. I would have loved to have a possible future in rapping if I could, but it's not going to happen.
You used to do pageants. Are you packing up pageant crowns as we speak?
[Laughs] I don't have them in the apartment, but my mom has a nice little wall back in my hometown with my trophies, some crowns, some photos, some old lipstick boxes.
What was your talent?
I danced. I grew up dancing ballet and jazz and everything else. Thankfully I never attempted to sing when no one would tell me that I was actually bad.
On man selfies: "It's just a no-go."Quite a few headlines today were devoted to your relationship with Mr. Connolly—do you have any comment?
[Laughs] I feel really lucky that I would have had the chance to work with someone like that. He's such a good person and especially playing such an intimate scene that could have really been incredibly uncomfortable and awkward, he really made me feel as comfortable as possible. And he's just an amazing guy.
Well, I really want you guys to be together now that I've seen your fake sex.
[Laughs] It's going to be a real awkward moment in my life when I wake up Thursday and everyone's seen the movie.
Has he met your parents?
My parents were at the New York screening. We were really pumped they got to meet the whole cast. But it's definitely an awkward moment when you watch your daughter in that scene and then you meet [their scene partner].
What's something really surprising about you that will blow people's minds?
I speak Polish. My mom and dad are from Poland so it's my first language. I had to take English as a second language growing up in school. It was really important to [my parents] that I didn't speak English at home. I have a degree in international business from Fordham.
What kind of business were you going to pursue?
It was really sort of my fallback plan. My only fallback plan is myself. I actually was genuinely interested in it and I also do hope that I never have to use it.
You know, Turtle got pretty successful with his tequila company.
Maybe I can have a Polish vodka company.
Did you get to meet Ronda Rousey while working on the film?
No and I wish I had and I'm mad that I haven't because I think she's an absolute boss.
Not even at the premieres?
No, I didn't. And I box and it's a passion—it's humiliating to even say that in the same sentence as Ronda Rousey, but anyways. I just think she's so badass.
How long have you been boxing?
About a year. And I have this false sense of confidence that I could beat the shit out of someone. I feel like sometimes I kind of want to get into a fight 'cause in boxing I'm so confident. I hope that day never happens, because I'm not sure I'm as good as I think I might be. I've been boxing privately with this guy who just kinda kicks my ass, and I had no idea how hard it was. I get nauseous almost every single time. So hopefully [my boxing coach] can talk to Ronda and maybe we can do a couple rounds in the ring with me, just gently.
You've got a good in with her now—you were co-stars.
Maybe she has some spare time to have some titty boxing with me.
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