Kate Beckinsale is the cover girl for the Inauguration Issue 2009 of Capitol File magazine. How cute does this classic look on Kate? This is an exclusive photo shoot the did with Kate to represent the first ladies of the White House.
In the interview they talk about Kate’s next movie, Nothing But The Truth, where she plays Rachel Armstrong, a Washington, DC-based reporter who reveals the identity of a CIA agent and then goes to jail for refusing to name her source. It’s set to be the break-out role for Kate who has played almost every role from every genre. But nothing has had them talking Academy Award winning until now.
Here are some highlights from the rest of the interview…
What was it like to film in a prison? If I hadnt decided against a life of crime before, I definitely have now. They were quite frightening about Dont touch anything and always wash your hands. The level of general filth, I didnt really think hard about it, but the prison warden was really worried about us touching things and getting hepatitis or something. But it was quite interesting because the weird celebrity culture that were in, it doesnt matter whether people are incredibly oppressed in prison, they still want me to autograph their Bible. You feel ridiculous dressed up in a very similar prison costume, and you know theyre all looking at you thinking, Shes going home to her hotel, and were staying here.
A large part of the films plot centers on a very daunting ethical question. Did you find yourself wondering, What would I do in that situation? I think that if youre not the person involved, then its much easier to come at it from a hypothetical, intellectual place. I didnt find anything particularly interesting in playing someone who is heroically standing up for a principle. As an actor, [you try to] find the personal, the emotional reasons. Its almost as if youre trying to play someone whos saintly. Theres nothing more boring to watch than somebody going around making the right decisions all the time. As a woman and a mother, I had a very hard time with how long my character is in jail without seeing her son. I know that in terms of heroics, I probably would be less capable because I would be thinking of the effect on my child and Id probably have to come home.
As you were promoting this political film, America was going through quite an interesting election. Did you follow it at all? I followed it in a very strange position of not being able to do anything about it whatsoever because Im not an American citizen and couldnt vote. It was impossible to not be caught up in itits such an extraordinary period of time. And we dont have debates in England, so that whole thing was very fascinating to me. But I was constantly trying to sit on people and get them to vote for Obama for me.
You do spend quite a lot of your time here in America. Have you ever thought about becoming an American citizen? I havent yet; I may at some point. A British friend of minea much older man whos about the most British person Ive ever met and has been here God knows how longhas just become an American citizen. He may not be American, but his children live here and he wanted to be part of voting on whos going to be in power for them, which makes sense to me. I have to say Ive never planned on living in America. I seem to have got myself here, to my amazement, married to an Americannone of these things was I remotely anticipating. Maybe if I find myself still here in 10 or 15 years it would probably be silly not to be able to vote.
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