I just wanted to give a little plug to 2 new Mena related websites that I’ve been told about. First is a fanlisting for Claire & Edie [Six Feet Under] called Just For Me and is run by the lovely Hanna (who is one of our fabulous Six Feet Under cappers!) and the second site is a great Mena graphics website where there are icons & wallpapers and other graphic related things and it’s called The Last High and is run by Julie. Fabulous sites - check them out!

‘I’m not going to play a cheerleader again,” says actress Mena Suvari. Suvari is most famous, of course, for playing the cheerleading teenage temptress in “American Beauty.” Still, with her all-American good looks - she’s like the hottest girl in your high school, only prettier - Suvari recognizes that it’s sometimes difficult to leave the schoolyard.

“I look like I’m 15,” she admits. “I try to work on that. I always joke that I should take up drinking and smoking so I’ll look older.” She is at least part of the way there in her latest role - Edie, the ballsy, brazen lesbian who is slowly seducing mopey art-star Claire Fisher (played by Lauren Ambrose) on the HBO series “Six Feet Under.” In real life, Suvari, 25, is married and (her words) “middle aged.” Continue Reading…

Hollywood.com has posted this on their website: … Claire might do some interesting experimenting with a new character: fellow art student Edie, played by Mena Suvari. “I keep reading in articles that we’re exploring Claire’s sexuality,” said Lauren. “I have a hard time saying that out loud.”

All she would say out loud about getting more than friendly with Mena’s character was, “Well, we start out with a very intense relationship. Her character is very inspiring to Claire’s character as an artist.”

Not exactly confirmation, so we asked Mena herself. “Ooo, I don’t know. Maybe,” she said with a coquettish wink and giving us a twirl in her hot-pink, plunging-neckline BCBG dress. “Edie’s really strong and opinionated but feminine at the same time. She’s a performance artist and she’s friends with Claire Fisher.” Continue Reading…

USA Today reports when Six Feet Under returns to HBO on June 6, the Fisher clan will be thrown into “life-altering experiences and sexual experimentation,” promises executive producer Alan Poul. “Our intention is to return to the lighter, unpredictable tone of the first two seasons.”

Mena Suvari, who worked with show creator Alan Ball in the movie American Beauty, joins the cast in the second episode as an art-school friend of Claire (Lauren Ambrose). “Mena’s character is a provocative performance artist and a strong feminist who doesn’t care what anyone thinks,” Poul says.

Mena Suvari is re-teaming with the film’s Oscar-winning writer Alan Ball, signing to do a six-episode arc on his acclaimed series “HBO’s Six Feet Under“.

On the quirky funeral-home drama, Suvari will play a student attending the same art school as Claire Fisher (Lauren Ambrose).

“She’s very independent, very self-motivated, very edgy and in a lot of ways much more grown-up than she should be considering how young she is,” Ball said of the character. “She and Claire influence each other both artistically and personally.”

The part proved very difficult to cast. After several unsuccessful casting sessions, Ball decided to go out on a limb and aim high with an offer to Suvari, who aside from sporadic guest spots early in her career has stayed focused on features.

“I’m thrilled because Mena is an extraordinarily talented and extraordinary disciplined actress, and I just think she can do anything,” Ball said. “In ‘American Beauty,’ that was a very tough role, much tougher than it may seem like on the surface, and in the work I’ve seen her do since, I think she’s got tremendous range.” [Source: Reuters]