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“Try me out.”

These inviting words were spoken by Maria Arcé as she leaned forward on a leather couch, encouraging a high school kid to grope her at an adult film convention in Vegas. Her boyfriend, a giant man named “Mule” sat beside her, pitching to what he believed were porn directors, bragging that Maria’s breasts cost him $6,000.

It’s just a scene in a movie, of course, but Maria made a memorable impression as Chloe, the wannabe starlet in 2004’s The Girl Next Door. She said people still ask her about the role.

“Many times I go in for an audition, a casting director remembers that scene and says I was funny as this innocent, naïve, vulnerable girl who just wants to break into the business. She’s just doe-eyed and excited believing these two boys are producers and can actually help her with her career,” she said.

People find it hard to believe that unlike her character, Maria is 100% natural upstairs.

“Yep,” she told Savvy. “All real. The joke on the set of The Girl Next Door was whether my boobs actually cost $6,000, but no, it was just a Wonderbra from Victoria’s Secret.”

Hollywood took notice of those curves, casting her as a Spanish supermodel in MGM Pictures’ recent Death to the Supermodels, directed by Joel Silverman and co-starring Jaime Pressly and Brooke Burns. Maria has enjoyed roles in several big movies such as Just Friends with Ryan Reynolds, Wedding Crashers with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and A Man Apart with Vin Diesel. She also costarred with Norm Macdonald and Dave Chappelle in Screwed and Ice Cube in Next Friday.

Her television appearances include “Judging Amy”, “Haunted”, “Kingpin”, “MTV Undressed”, “Mortal Combat: Crusades” and “Son of the Beach”.

Maria has a guest-starring role in the Emmy award winning show "How I Met Your Mother" and is booked for a Miller Lite Print Campaign. She's also the spokesmodel for Itrain.com after losing 35 pounds and changing her body type.

Savvy got up close and personal with the six-grand babe in this interview following a sexy pictorial shoot with Brie Childers…

Savvy: You’ve played hot women in a lot of top-shelf comedies. Is that intentional or do you really just want to get all skanky and do depressing movies like Charlize Theron?

Maria: (Laughs) I am concentrating on comedies. When something just clicks with you and feels right, it’s fun to do, so yeah, I’ve been focusing on trying to find projects that are dramedies or comedies.

Savvy: “Dramedies” being a mix between comedy and drama.

Maria: Correct.

Savvy: I could be a producer. I know the lingo, baby. You were recently in the Ryan Reynolds movie Just Friends, right?

Maria: Yes, I play one of Ryan Reynold’s girlfriends who gets frustrated at being treated like a booty call. My character breaks up with him at the record company’s Christmas party. I say “Athena’s out” and give him the hand gesture.

Savvy: Did I miss you in Wedding Crashers?

Maria: I played a librarian in the bonus material on the DVD.

Savvy: Now I have to go rent it again. Are you fun-loving and vivacious in real life or just one hell of an actress?

Maria: (Laughs) I like to roll with the boys.

Savvy: How about your new DVD, Death to the Supermodels?

Maria: We filmed in Costa Rica and all got to live together for a month down there.

Savvy: That looked like a lot of fun to film. Were there any good pillow fights with fellow Southerner Jaime Pressly on the set?

Maria: (Laughs) Jaime thought I was a lesbian because I am very conservative and reserved on set. All the girls, when we would sit around at night, would exchange sex tips and secrets. I would never interject anything, so one night at this dinner table with 12 of us sitting overlooking this sunset and beautiful ocean, drinking wine, Jaime just burst out “Are you gay?” I said, “No, why?!” She said, "Because you never talk about men." I was, like, “I’m at work”.

Savvy: So you clam up talking about sex?

Maria: I’m just an old-fashioned girl. I like to keep my secrets private.

Savvy: Were your parents very conservative?

Maria: No, they were not, and I think that’s why I went the opposite direction. My parents were poker-playing, scotch-drinking, party people. We’d have parties that started on Friday at our house. Monday morning, I’d still be climbing over people sleeping in our living room to get to school. They were definitely living up the 70s, into the 80s and part of the 90s.

Savvy: Sounds like my house. Tell us about your background in Lexington, Kentucky.

Maria: I grew up in a town where they could have filmed Deliverance.

Savvy: (Laughs)

Maria: Then I bounced between the east and west coasts. I started out as a catalog model when I was 12 years old. I submitted my pictures to this huge agency in New York. I wrote to Joe Hunter after seeing an article about him in The New York Times saying he was an up and coming agent discovering all the hottest new faces. I sent Polaroids to him. He personally sent me an index card suggesting I try the Miami market. He gave me a number to call. I still have that card. I started out with the Michelle Pommier agency, which had been open for 30 years. I had a catalog modeling career for 10 years. It was nothing glamorous, just things like Mervin’s and Macy’s and the girl-next-door type of ads.

Savvy: I understand that’s steady work but nothing that’ll make you famous.

Maria: For me, it has never been about being famous. I felt very fortunate that by the time I was 16 years old, I was able to earn $350 an hour. That’s good money for a Kentucky girl.

Savvy: That’s, like, $6 a minute.

Maria: I’d be booked for half-days and work three days a week. It was a great living, but after about 10 years, I thought I’d like to really own more than what was in my tiny traveling suitcase. I didn’t have any established branches because I’d always been on the road. I wanted to settle down, and I loved L.A. Every time I came out here to shoot, I loved it. If I want, I can play in the ocean and the mountains all on the same day.

Savvy: Have you always traveled around so fearlessly?

Maria: Definitely. I told my parents when I was 12 that I was going to pursue modeling. I am not a 9-to-5 type girl. And most of the people I surround myself with understand that. If you try to put me inside a box, I am definitely going to make my own box inside of that box. I am conservative and reserved in a way, but there’s a part of me that will try something to make sure I don’t like it.

Savvy: Earlier you mentioned lesbianism. Ever tried that to make sure you didn’t like it?

Maria: (Laughs) I definitely can appreciate beauty in a woman. When a pretty woman walks down the street, I will definitely turn my head and notice. I love something about the exotic and the natural.

Savvy: Speaking of natural, you claim your breasts are real. I think, like the kid in that movie, I should get to do the touch test to verify this for our readers.

Maria: (Laughs)

Savvy: Oh well, it was worth a shot. Someday I will get to touch a booby… (Laughs)

Maria: Women in Beverly Hills always ask about my lips too, where I had them done, but they’re real. I remember this one time I went to yoga and we’re sitting on our mats warming up and one girl looks over and she’s like, “Oh my God, those are yours?!” They were all, like, staring and telling me I have nice breasts. I said “Thanks”.

Savvy: I always get my face slapped when I say that. No fair. Are there any cons to having large breasts?

Maria: I don’t think there are any cons for me.

Savvy: What’s your favorite part of a man’s body?

Maria: There are so many places on a man that I enjoy! I have to say, I love when a man wears cologne in a certain place. All of a sudden that is my favorite part. There is this cologne called John Varvatos. The scent of it drives me wild!

Savvy: Good information for guys out there to know. What kind of guys tend to fall for you most often?

Maria: I always attract the romantic guys. I don’t know if it is my energy. I like the old-fashioned things. I like witty guys. I love to laugh about things. I seem to always pair up with the guy who has a great sense of humor. And nothing turns me on more than when a guy is confident and direct about what he wants.

Savvy: What’s next for you?

Maria: I’ve been looking at a lot of projects. Almost every day, I audition for TV shows that are currently on and new shows in the works. I’m reading for many of the new pilots that ABC and Fox are developing off Latin American telenovellas. I really enjoy auditioning for and working on movies, but in my heart I dream of being a series regular on a hit syndicated one-hour show.

Savvy: Do you look forward to winning your first Oscar so you can take a role where you gain 50 pounds? You know, for your art...

Maria: 50 pounds?! Honestly, I'd have to wear a fake fat suit for the role! I don't want to ever let myself go and gain 50 pounds! Unless I was pregnant, but that's a whole other story. And if I did get pregnant, afterwards I would follow in Demi Moore's footsteps and keep it smoking even in my 40's!

Savvy: Oh yeah?

Maria: Though It would be great to be able to eat at the craft service table every day. And I wouldn't mind not having to think twice about actually eating pizza and having a beer. There’s definitely a difference between being a starving model and a starving actress.

Savvy: When do you feel your sexiest?

Maria: When I am slipping into something black and lacy.

Savvy: What do you do for fun?

Maria: I like skipping Sunday brunch with my girlfriends to watch football at the sports bar. I absolutely adore watching men watching football. (Laughs) I'm not kidding! I love how they become raw, emotional, and excited. Then I find myself excited! (Sighs) Good times!

Savvy: Which do you prefer spending time with, guys or girls?

Maria: I enjoy both. My male friendships fulfill different needs than my female friendships.

Savvy: What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done?

Maria: It involved a bottle of Jack Daniels, a guy from Florida and a misdemeanor.

Savvy: Excuse me?

Maria: (Winks) No regrets!
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Photos by Brie Childers