‘League’ Stars Not About the Looks

Alice Eve and Krysten Ritter are two very busy women. Promoting their upcoming romantic comedy, “She’s Out of My League,” they have been making a whirlwind tour of America, stopping in Boston in late February to screen the movie and orchestrate some publicity.

The film tells the story of a geeky, goofy airport security guard named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who meets and ends up dating a drop-dead gorgeous party-planner (Eve) who comes through his airport. Everyone around them tells them that it can’t work, because while Kirk is a “5” on the hotness-scale, Molly is a “10,” and two people of such diverging attractiveness could never make it work. Ritter plays Eve’s straight-talking, hostile best friend who is opposed to the relationship from the beginning.

Both Eve and Ritter are relatively seasoned at the entertainment gig. While Eve comes from a family of actors, Ritter was discovered in her teens at a mall. Most recently, Ritter has been in “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and “27 Dresses” but for Eve, this is one of her first major releases.

“This is the biggest promotional tour that we’ve done. It’s pretty full-on,” said Eve. “We get up really early in the morning, and we do the radio shows, whatever city we’re in. And then we do some TV, we do some stuff like this, and then we go, get on a plane and fly to the next city. We’ll go to a screening, do a Q&A, and then we have about three and a half, four hours off to sleep and start again.”

Both women also have a strong background in television. Ritter has been on several cable dramas including “Woke Up Dead” and “Breaking Bad.” Eve also started out acting in television.

“I think there is great material and great creative voices on cable television,” remarked Ritter. “Things can be true to what they start out as. ”

In keeping with the theme of the movie, Eve and Ritter have had to assign numerical values on the attraction-scale to fans left and right for the majority of the tour. “We’ve been doing it all day, every day, for our tour,” said Ritter. “People will be like, ‘Rate this guy!’”

“They make us rate people either as tens or ones and that’s it,” Ritter complained.

After the Boston screening, Ritter and Eve were asked to rate three fans randomly pulled from the audience. The one assigned the highest score by the girls would win a date with a Boston University cheerleader.

However, in the case of the Boston screening, the girls found a way around the strict number system. Even though they had to assign one of the boys a ‘1,’ they protested when he was deemed the loser. With a little bit of cajoling and some well-placed audience chants, they managed to score dates for all of the boys.

“We don’t like rating people. We didn’t believe any of them were like numbers. It’s just we have to do it,” said Eve. “But some people are a ten in the morning and a one in the evening, you know what I mean? Like, Jesus—we’re human, it changes!”

When asked if they’ve ever dated someone out of their league, both women—ever humble—immediately claimed that their significant others were hotter than they were.

“I’m dating someone who’s out of my league... Well, I don’t know. I think he’s better looking than I am, but, I’m a good time,” replied Ritter.

“I don’t know; I think you’re reaching but I think he’s reaching harder” Eve quipped.