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Quotes
 I
know that my life will change after this movie, but I just can't prepare
myself on no longer being anonymous.
Believe
in, and follow your dreams.
In
the back of my mind I kept thinking, I'm fighting Arnold and I've got to
be naked in front of the world. So that was enough incentive. I would
work, like, 20 hours and work out constantly in my gym and my trailer
because of the 'birthing' scene, as I call it.
When
I got the T3 job, my manager said, 'Kristanna, just enjoy this last year
of anonymity, because afterward you're not going to be able to pump your
own gas.' I feel ready. Why not?"
Acting
is what I've pursued since I was a child.
Arnold
is amazing. I was really impressed by his physicality-it's pretty
phenomenal what he can do with his body. As far as doing the big fight
scene with him, I kind of made a correlation with Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers: I did everything Arnold did, but backwards and in heels!
I always try
to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully
people will feel that they can approach me.
I can
appreciate anybody's passion for anything.
I definitely
felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such
a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven
at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just
being a part of the creative process.
I did
extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put
on about 15 pounds of muscle mass.
I don't have a
dishwasher, and I hate washing dishes.
I just try to
take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.
I never really
was much of a practical jokester or anything.
I started
acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then
auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up
coming out, getting the job and just staying.
I think I can
try the film world out for a while.
I think
sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I
am.
I think that
you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you
would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've
worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.
I was
definitely a fan of Robert Patrick's character in T2. I was just really
awed by his performance and the complete body control that he had, so I
think maybe subconsciously, that played in the back of my mind.
I worked with
a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
I'd like to do
something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not
sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's
great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing
the right next project.
I'd like to go
to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.
I'm an
equestrian, so I like to ride. Ride horses, I love to hike with my dog,
love to travel. Most recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved.
I'm just at
this point really just trying to finish up and do a great job and hold
it together and just take it as it comes.
I'm ready to
go back to work.
I'm tall, I
have a deeper voice, and when I was younger, I looked older, so people
didn't really know how to cast me.
I've always
been a very physical person, and I did do a couple of other action
things before-including a TV show called Mortal Kombat which we did
martial arts on.
In the whole
period of making the film, I carried myself more aggressively and was
much more assertive than I normally would be. It took me a while to
decompress after the film ended, to step back and say I didn't need to
be this strong and have this kind of mentality any more.
People were
actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an
athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or
something.
Playing a
robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor,
because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and
completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
There was a
period of time where I tried to cut my hair and dye it and change my
appearance, but I realize that in the end, you look better in a specific
way and people are always going to pass judgement on you, so it's really
up to them to see you in the light that you want to be seen.
There's a lot
of muscles in your eyes even that you don't ever work, but little human
traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldn't do
that. Blinking when you're shooting a gun, you know. Things that you
take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always
interesting.
Your body has
such a memory.
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