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		Kate Bosworth Interview

Born January 2, 1983, in Los Angeles, California, Catherine Ann Bosworth spent most of her childhood traveling throughout the United States, including San Francisco, Connecticut and Massachusetts. An award-winning equestrian, her big break came about in 1998 during a casting call for Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer" (1998). Kate figured that attending an audition would be a great experience, and the fact that the film focused on horses gave her that extra push to go ahead and attend the audition. With little more than a role in a community theater production ("Annie") to her credit, Kate was a natural and charmed her way into the supporting role of Judith, the female lead's best friend, but not before leaving the producers with her impromptu headshot -- a picture of Kate from a Christmas family portrait.

With the doors of Hollywood open to her at such an early age, Kate was met with the age-old dilemma of school versus career. She decided to continue her high-school education, as well as her involvement with community sports. After a 18-month hiatus, she was drawn to Hollywood again in 2000, with back-to-back roles in "The Newcomers" (2000), "Remember The Titans" (2000) with Denzel Washington, and the short-lived WB series "Young Americans" (2000), a Dawson's Creek spin-off. The protagonist of Young Americans, Will Krudski (Rodney Scott), was introduced in three episodes of Dawson's Creek at the end of the show's third season, as a former classmate of Dawson, Joey, and Pacey, who had moved away some years before and had returned for a visit. The show appeared in Dawson's Creek's timeslot when it went on hiatus during the summer of 2000.

Two years later, it was director John Stockwell's turn to reintroduce us to America's latest sweetheart with the surfing film, "Blue Crush" (2002). Easily defined as a blend of Charlie's Angels and Beach Blanket Bingo, 2002's Blue Crush featured Bosworth as a chambermaid/aspiring professional surfer. With the female cast sharing a beach house in Oahu for two months, they were forced to undergo a rigorous training regimen, which included seven hours of running, swimming, weight training, and surfing. According to Bosworth, it wasn't easy; "Standing on a surfboard is like trying to stand on soap. You're going to fall." But Kate met the challenge head-on, and had the cuts and scars to prove it. She even ended up going to the hospital for a CAT scan after a nasty spill left her unconscious. The film's surprise strong opening meant that Kate Bosworth would have a whole new fan base, especially among the MTV crowd. As the poster girl for this "new wave" of girl power, Bosworth was happy to portray a character she could relate to -- a young woman who was strong-willed, determined, independent, and sexy.

The great result of "Blue Crush" unmistakably propelled Kate to wide recognition, leading her to obtain two nominations for Breakthrough Female and Best On-Screen Team categories at the 12th Annual MTV Movie Awards by the following year. As her career received quite a boost, she smoothly made her way to land more roles in some films, such as "The Rules of Attraction" (2002) opposite James Van Der Beek (the film explored the darker side of college life, with Kate portraying a strung-out party girl) and the short movie "Advantage Hart" (2003) opposite Matt Czuchry (her ex-boyfriend and Young Americans co-star). Also in 2003 she attracted the attention of director James Cox, who was in the midst of casting his latest film, "Wonderland" (2003). The film followed the life of legendary adult film star John Holmes with Val Kilmer in the lead role. Dyeing her hair brown for the part, Bosworth portrayed Dawn Schiller (the real-life teenage lover of the X-rated king) for which she received positive reviews from critics.

After those roles, Bosworth was poised to lay claim to the title of the latest Hollywood "It" girl and her face graced dozens of magazine covers seemingly overnight--especially when she embarked on a romance with rising star Orlando Bloom with whom she has been dating for over 3 years. The couple first met at the premiere of Bloom's movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and has since established a love relationship. Although they later separated by January 2005 with the reason of putting full concentration on their career, the bond between them apparently was too strong to be denied so that they decided to be together again in late August. The couple adopted 2 dogs named Sidi and Lila when they went to Morocco to film Orlando's movie "Kingdom of Heaven".

Bosworth began seguing into leading lady roles of the Reese Witherspoon and Meg Ryan variety, and her fresh, sunny, innocent effervesence was a major boost to the '50s-esque vehicle "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!" (2004), directed by Legally Blonde's Robert Luketic where she played a sweet small-town girl who wins a date with a Hollywood idol (Josh Duhamel) only to return home and find that he's followed her, attracted by her goodness, prompting a showdown between the actor and the friend who's long carried a torch for her (Topher Grace).

Bosworth explored slightly darker corners when she played popular teen screen idol Sandra Dee, the wife of singer Bobby Darin, opposite Kevin Spacey in the Darin biopic "Beyond the Sea" (2004), also directed by Spacey, where the actress held her own in scenes opposite the acting powerhouse.
Kate's next appearance was in Myla Goldberg's acclaimed novel adaptation "Bee Season" (2005), opposite Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche playing Chali, a Hare Krishna cult member.

She appeared in various advertisements after signing for 2005-2006 Revlon cosmetics company besides Eva Mendes, Julianne Moore and Halle Berry. She has also been part of various charity campaigns and non-profit organizations such as ONE, Rock the Vote, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Make-A-Wish Foundation... and is also a veteran member of the Appalachia Program and the National Honor Society. She was also admitted to Princeton University in 2000, but continues to defer her attendance to concentrate on her acting career.

Bosworth made headlines when she was cast as the Man of Steel's perrenial love interest Lois Lane in director Bryan Singer's revival of the original comic book film franchise, "Superman Returns" (2006), which also co-starred Spacey as Lex Luthor and newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman. Singer cast Bosworth after watching her performance as Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea. ''I saw it twice and fell for her,'' says Singer. To test his potential stars, the director used one of the film's most emotionally charged scenes, in which Superman and Lois reunite atop the Daily Planet after five years apart. ''The chemistry was palpable.''

A fine example of the characteristic of a Hollywood young actress, Kate Bosworth, without doubt, possesses all the goods within her: talent, beauty, intelligence, humbleness, and the most important, a genuine love for acting. "It's my passion and I love going to work everyday," she admitted. "But there's a difference between that and between craving the spotlight. That's not what attracts me to this business, doing the red carpet stuff. It's involved and can be really fun but it's not something that I like to do on a night out." With this star quality, no wonder she quickly soared to acquire world's attention as well as praise and admiration from both critics and audiences.

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