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 I finished La Femme Nikita. I was offered a big comedy and then a small independent great character set in the ‘40s. So, I had two great options but I was pregnant. I had a baby. So, I’m not finding it at this point. I’m just auditioning and looking at things, reading things, finding things I like. It’s just about a script and whether I’m right for it. I think Nikita was a cult hit, so it hasn’t interfered too much at this point.
No drama -- 'That was great, nice run, that's it' -- that's how I felt about it.
I
never say no.
I think so. I had dinner with Putin, president Putin last year in Russia and that made me feel pretty good because he said to me, “You know that you’ve revolutionized the woman in Russia. You’re a big hero here. Women, they like you because you’re strong.” That’s when I went, “Okay, I’m part of something.”
I
really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my
support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.
It
doesn’t bother me. I’m the gentle in gentlemen. I don’t mind being
referred to as a gentleman. It doesn’t bother me at all.
I was in a theatre company for nearly seven years before I started working in film and television. So, that's were you learn to do all that. It was like: "Ah! This is kind of interesting. It's great!"
I
was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time,
but these things always are.
I thought it was just fantastic. It was just English humour at its best. Then I read the script and saw how much of an adjustment it was to the comic. Nonetheless, I thought if you're going to a big Hollywood film and be part of a franchise, what an interesting one to be part of. At least there's some history of the characters, they're so iconic. I just thought how great it was doing this sort of genre of film - action/adventure film at the end of the 19th century.
I'm
actually quite conservative.
I'm
crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took
us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so
remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Of course it got bad press in America - because they don't understand irony. The truth is that visually it is wonderful - I think that the star of this show was the production designer.
I'd always loved him, ... But I had to walk off from him like that -- one of us had to sacrifice.
That's a great idea. It's just a shame that they are making it right now with
Halle Berry - I would have been a much better Catwoman. But that's okay I'm a good Mina. Something else will come up - maybe I can be Panther Girl.
When these novels were written it was really depressed in Europe and it's really interesting that writers were creating these aggressive characters.
I haven’t seen Stuart Townshend film. I never saw Queen of the Damned, so I had no idea. But Stuart, I didn’t even see him before we started shooting. He didn’t arrive until we both started to shoot, so there wasn’t really a chance to ask him.
If
you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex
rather than about being sexy.
There are also a couple of other projects that are looming, but I haven't made a decision yet about those. The next few weeks will be quite telling - another series maybe. But my focus at the moment is this independent movie.
They’re
amazing. My costumes really helped me transform from everything that
I’d been thinking about and the research I’d done into Mina. They
were so fabulous. Great, loved them.
Mina was pretty famous. Fans of Dracula will know her as the woman that Dracula crossed oceans of time to be with. But it's a shame that there aren't any female characters from this time period that the writers could draw on.
Dracula is dead, so obviously they couldn't use him and so Mina is the closest thing. But she's not your typical vampire. She's half and half. She's really conflicted about it. Alan Moore thought that she was strong enough to include her in his comics though.
My
future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids.
Well, there are questions. I brought those questions up. I’m not full vampire. I’m half vampire, half human. Dracula loved me and he spared me and he put enough blood in my vein that I’ve got it in me but it doesn’t overtake me as it does real vampires. It overtakes in moments when I get emotional. The questions about the sunrise, all those things, they’re questions you should ask the director. I addressed them with him and they were sort of a can of worms that we just had to work with.
The boys were so nervous - they were shaking in their shoes. I was like: "Why?" and they said it was because he was Connery and they were all such young actors. If I'd been working with Katherine Hepburn I'd probably have felt really nervous.
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