Justin Timberlake GQ Interview   Jump to Other Pages Homepage Full Biography Timberlake Facts Justin Trivia Movie: Alpha Dog Timberlake Albums Lyrics Gallery Quotes Picture Gallery Interviews & Articles --- GQ Interview --- Teen Magazine --- MTV Interview Britney Spears Speaks Justin: Breast Shocked Me Justified & Stripped Tour Hot News & Gossips Justin Fan Club Yahoo! Groups Free Wallpapers Free Downloadsl Timberlake Posters A lot bigger than one might expect 3Previous Page But Timberlake isn't done yet. Although Justified proved beyond doubt that he was more than the sum of his cheesy comrades, there was one story that wouldn't go away: rumours abounded that same of the songs on the record were originally written by the Neptunes' main button-pusher Pharrell Williams, not for Timberlake, but for the original King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Timberlake, many scoffed, was only an entertainer, a pop vehicle fuelled not just by himself, but by someone else. And it's exactly this question of authenticity that Timberlake has his cross hairs lined up on for his second long-player. The Landmark London hotel, situated on the busy Marylebone Road, has been Timberlake's home for just under a week now; he's booked out an entire floor for his team. And with Cameron Diaz - Timberlake's girlfriend ever since they met at an awards ceremony in 2003 - in tow, this means tight security. The power couple are currently working together for the first time, Timberlake voicing the part of the King's nephew in next year's Shrek 3. In fact, acting is becoming mor e than just a sideline for Timberlake. In Alpha Dog, out later this year, he plays his first meaty role, as a drug-dealing, tattooed gangland nasty. With all the pre-planning and attention to detail of a state visit, this week has seen Timberlake give umpteen interviews, perform a special showcase at the Hammersmith Palais, record a live performance at Abbey Road Studios for Radio 1 and, most impressively, avoid the glare of hundreds of paparazzi desperate to snap Timberlake and his Hollywood A-list girlfriend out on the town together. So far, then, the trip has gone like clockwork. The only photograph that's made the tabloids is one of Cameron leaving Nobu, the Mayfair Japanese restaurant, wearing what looks suspiciously like an engagement ring on her left hand (but more of that later). And the only newspaper story of any note that seems to be bothering Timberlake (or at least his team) is a quote that ran in one of the nationals about JT's thoughts on, and experimentation with, drugs. Right now, Timberlake is soaking up the view from the balcony of our interview suite. There's a large Jewish wedding that's been going on all day in the hotel's Winter Garden, a huge cavernous lounge where fake palm trees rise up out of a carpet, so gaudy it nearly distracts from the waitresses' uniforms. "Let's go be wedding crashers," he suggests. "Nah, that's so last year, right?" Timberlake is a lot bigger than one might expect. When you see him dancing, moving like liquid, he's so in control of his body you expect him to be, well, more Tom Cruise. More compact. But he's a jock - tall, broad, ripped. Just over six feet tall in the white Lacoste trainers in which he pads ab out, puffing his chest out, stretching his biceps behind his back, snapping his neck this way and that. lt's like watching an Olympic gymnast warm up before a performance on the bars. "I am an athlete," he says, settling into a white and gold replica Louis XIV chair, hooking a size ten onto one knee. He's wearing a plain black T-shirt, a pair of William Rast baggy jeans - the dothing line Timberlake and his best friend Trace Ayala have set up, named after their grandfathers - and a black studded beIt. There's no expensive jewellery, no flashy "JT" diamond pendant like the one he use d to throw round his neck white hanging out with Pharrell and, thankfully, no trucker cap. “I'm active," he continues. "Whether that's going hiking behind my house in LA with my two boxers, Buckley and Brennen... You can let them off the leash and watch them go. When I'm on tour, it's golf. My dad told me I should take up golf so one day I can shoot my age. That's when a man is complete; the planets aligned. At the moment I can shoot my age in about fýve holes." When Justin says "dad", he doesn't mean his biological father Randy Timberlake. "Well, my father left when I was two; my stepfather has been the guiding force, maybe not in my career, but in how to behave as a human being." If it was his stepfather Paul Harless who showed that manners maketh the man then it was his mother who taught him career control. It was Lynn, one afternoon in 1992, who decided to try one last audition for the American talent show Star Search - a prototype of Pop Idol - in Nashville before heading home to Memphis, Tennessee.  Next Page: "This is me right now at my creative best"