Kate Beckinsale: “I haven’t even done Botox. Look, I can move my face!”
I generally find Kate Beckinsale to be rather bland in personality. I don’t hold it against her, really. I think she’s beautiful in a way I associate with Southern beauty pageants – Kate always looks “done” and she’s always “got her face on” and she’s always impeccably (over) dressed. She’s Charlotte in Sex and the City, you know? Anyway, I was going to ignore Kate’s cover interview for the March issue of Women’s Health UK, but I ended up skimming the piece and finding it charming, mostly because Kate gossips a lot about her various leading men. I’ll admit, I liked her more after this piece:
Working with her director husband Les Wiseman on the Total Recall remake with Colin Farrell: “I think it was worse for Colin [Farrell]. It’s awkward if you have to fondle the director’s wife. Especially with Len saying, ‘all right that’s it, you’re fired. Colin’s lovely. He’s such a good actor, really professional and a brilliant dad. There’s nothing bad you can say about Colin – and he’s funny as well. I hate him!”
Taking a three year hiatus and then coming back with Underworld: Awakening and Contraband: “I didn’t plan on a sabbatical, there just wasn’t anything I was dying to do and I have to really make the decision – is it worth me being away from my kid [her daughter Lily].”
Training for Contraband: “It’s not really in my nature to do all this ass-kicking. When I first started training for Underworld they were like: ‘she can’t even f**king run!’ And I couldn’t. I got more bruises on Contraband than in all the Underworlds put together. It was like, ‘let’s not choreograph the fight, let’s just see what happens.’ And all of a sudden Giovanni Ribisi [her Contraband co-star] comes flying into my house and beats the sh*t out of me.”
On Mark Wahlberg: “He’s very manly. And if someone squeezes your boobs at a Katy Perry concert – which is what happened to me in Toronto – I did wish Mark was there because he would have sorted it out.”
On Hugh Jackman: “His reputation is as the nicest person in show business and it’s sort of true. And he’s not shy of skipping and stuff. He knows a lot of show tunes.”
No social networking: “I don’t do Twitter or Facebook. I like to be able to reserve the right to complain about people bothering me in my private life.”
On the paparazzi attention: “It’s a good thing we [she and husband Len Wiseman] weren’t in Europe or I’d be topless. And thank God we’ve been married as long as we have, and the pants stayed on, that’s all I can say!”
Her favorite body part: “I once said, ‘my beaver’, and everyone was shocked. So I’m going to say my ears.”
No Botox: “I haven’t even done Botox. Look, I can move my face.”
[From Women’s Health UK via The Mail]
Do you believe her about the Botox? I think I do. I don’t know. I’m debating it. She been photographed a lot lately, and in some photos, she does look slightly tweaked, but maybe it’s just because she went away for a while and I forgot what she looked like? I don’t think she’s had her eyes done. And her face does MOVE. Okay, I’ll buy her claim that she’s un-tweaked.
Oh, and is this code? “He’s not shy of skipping and stuff. He knows a lot of show tunes.” IS IT? If you said that about Tom Cruise, I would say that was code – BAD code. But since it’s about Hugh Jackman, can we just take it at face value?
Women’s Health photos courtesy of The Mail.
