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Natassia Malthe: Action heroine, Bloodrayne, and Skinwalker
Submitted by Superheidi on 08/09/2007
Natassia is a baaaaad girl in Skinwalkers
NO, REALLY, IT IS: Sonja was a ballet teacher and she gets turned by (her boyfriend) Varek (Jason Behr). When I was a kid, I had dreams about being a ballet teacher and riding a motorcycle and having tattoos. I remember in ballet camp, my teacher had tattoos and she was super-cool and she had a motorcycle. When this movie came up and I found out what her back story was, I thought wow that is so parallel to what I'd thought of as a kid when I was 8 or 9 years old.
Natassia in DOA. Awesome hair!
OR, CALL HER CYNTHIA ROTHROCK: I think I exude 'strong woman' on-camera, even though I do have other personalities. (The action genre) happens to be easy for me to do because look-wise, I know that it's easier to buy- because of my square jaw. It comes across different on-camera. That's just what I get hired for, mostly, but I really want to break into comedy. I'm a light, bubbly person, all my friends know me as the big goofball. It's ironic. I really want to break that box, even I do want to do stronger parts as well because it's always kick-ass and you get an ego-boost, so it's cool.
CONFESSIONS OF A B-MOVIE ACTRESS: Somebody's gotta buy the bacon, you know? I like to support myself and I always have. I'm in a foreign country, and I do the work that I can do, because otherwise I'll be back in Norway or Canada sitting on my ass instead of doing what I wanna do. I don't have the luxury to pick and choose or say 'no' to stuff. Some people can and they're very lucky, people who have family in the industry who support them when they're waiting for the A-List movie to come along. But it's like, I'm just here by myself.
STAN'S THE MAN: I have a lot of respect for (FX guru) Stan Winston, so I was very happy to be working with him. I was a huge fan.
PASS THE MIDOL: (Sonja is like) a raving female in the worst time of the month!
Natassia as 'Rayne' in 'Bloodrayne II'
OOH, BABY I LOVE YOUR WEIGHT: I was going to be a ballerina and dance. I really wanted to be a singer, but I started dance first, and for my mother it became 'You can't change your interests, you have to stick to one thing'. To get out of dance, I think I subconsciously made myself gain like 30 pounds to give myself an excuse to leave. I couldn't just say to myself, 'I really don't want to do this', and leave after all those years, so I created a situation where it was like the ballet director was like 'Sorry, girl, you just don't have the body type anymore'. So I left and then I lost it all.
DIMINISHING RETURNS: (BloodRayne 2) is a low-budget BloodRayne, not Kristanna Lokens budet, that's fine, you know. She just made like half a million dollars more than me for doing the same fucking character!
DON'T NEED NOTHIN BUT A GOOD TIME: I wanted to do a movie with friends, and I'd heard only good things about Uwe from the people who have worked for him. I've never heard anything bad come out of anybody's mouth that's worked for him, so I would rather be in a movie where people have a good experience, rather than hearsay or rumors or gossip or talking shit about a person. I want to have a good time, I want to make some money, I want to be creative, and I want to do the best I can with the means for the project. We had a very low budget, so it's not gonna be like an A-List movie. It was 10 below zero and we did the movie two months before we were supposed to shoot it because of schedules, and we had to prepare very quickly. So, of course it was like, 'Let's go, come on, let's go for it, whatever happens, happens'.
Natassiawas the only thing that didn't suck as Typhoid Mary in Elektra
GIMME A BREAK, I SURE DESERVE IT: I just hope that I'll have the break-out role so no one will care whether I do a $100,000,000 film or a $200,000 one. There's a lot of pretension.
FREE YOUR MIND, AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: I think sometimes people have belief systems, and they follow these belief systems and they think they're perfect. I think that it's much more creative and gutsy and more 'with the flow' and better results are gonna happen if people are just open to the unexpected, like in life. If you're open to the unexpected, things happen. If you give people a chance, things happen. When you do take a chance, miraculous big things happen because you've sacrificed something. You gave up something and there's more owed by the universe.
HOLLYWOOD IS SO RETRO: It's all covered up in pretense and snobbery. It reminds me of the snobbery in the 17th century, when artists and pseudo-intellectuals thought they were better than other people, even though they wouldn't say it- it's in their attitude.
Check out this Pretty/Scary woman in Skinwalkers, which opens tomorrow, August 10th, in theaters!
By Stacie Ponder
Former Maxim girl Natassia Malthe is slowly but surely becoming a full-fledged, bonafide action star. With roles in such videogame-to-movie flicks as BloodRayne 2: Deliverance and DOA and the big-screen adaptation of the comic book Elektra (where Malthe's turn as Typhoid Mary stole the show from star Jennifer Garner), Natassia is also well on her way to becoming every geek's dream girl. In Skinwalkers, opening this week, Natassia stars as Sonja, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding, shotgun-blasting bad girl who really likes being a Skinwalker, and who wouldn't? I mean, they can turn into werewolves at will. You can't tell me that's not a handy trick. I recently spent a few minutes with Natassia talking about Hollywood and Uwe Boll and, like, dreams and stuff...
A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES: I really wanted to do a werewolf movie and so I asked my agent to send me out for werewolf movies and I actually had a dream about doing a werewolf movie. For some reason I kind of thought I was supposed to do a werewolf movie.
Natassia is a baaaaad girl in Skinwalkers
NO, REALLY, IT IS: Sonja was a ballet teacher and she gets turned by (her boyfriend) Varek (Jason Behr). When I was a kid, I had dreams about being a ballet teacher and riding a motorcycle and having tattoos. I remember in ballet camp, my teacher had tattoos and she was super-cool and she had a motorcycle. When this movie came up and I found out what her back story was, I thought wow that is so parallel to what I'd thought of as a kid when I was 8 or 9 years old.
CALL HER MISS CLEO: I have visions. Some people believe it've written down dreams from 4 or 5 years ago that have completely happened. I don't think that's called psychic; I think there's a misinterpretation of 'psychic'. I think there's a whole lot of science behind it. I think there's a lot of evidence that's come forth, you know, how atoms work. An atom has 10 shadow sides and you know, it's on a different level and it's invisible, but it still exists. I think our life kind of has that aspect to it, too.
Natassia in DOA. Awesome hair!
OR, CALL HER CYNTHIA ROTHROCK: I think I exude 'strong woman' on-camera, even though I do have other personalities. (The action genre) happens to be easy for me to do because look-wise, I know that it's easier to buy- because of my square jaw. It comes across different on-camera. That's just what I get hired for, mostly, but I really want to break into comedy. I'm a light, bubbly person, all my friends know me as the big goofball. It's ironic. I really want to break that box, even I do want to do stronger parts as well because it's always kick-ass and you get an ego-boost, so it's cool.
CONFESSIONS OF A B-MOVIE ACTRESS: Somebody's gotta buy the bacon, you know? I like to support myself and I always have. I'm in a foreign country, and I do the work that I can do, because otherwise I'll be back in Norway or Canada sitting on my ass instead of doing what I wanna do. I don't have the luxury to pick and choose or say 'no' to stuff. Some people can and they're very lucky, people who have family in the industry who support them when they're waiting for the A-List movie to come along. But it's like, I'm just here by myself.
STAN'S THE MAN: I have a lot of respect for (FX guru) Stan Winston, so I was very happy to be working with him. I was a huge fan.
PASS THE MIDOL: (Sonja is like) a raving female in the worst time of the month!
Natassia as 'Rayne' in 'Bloodrayne II'
OOH, BABY I LOVE YOUR WEIGHT: I was going to be a ballerina and dance. I really wanted to be a singer, but I started dance first, and for my mother it became 'You can't change your interests, you have to stick to one thing'. To get out of dance, I think I subconsciously made myself gain like 30 pounds to give myself an excuse to leave. I couldn't just say to myself, 'I really don't want to do this', and leave after all those years, so I created a situation where it was like the ballet director was like 'Sorry, girl, you just don't have the body type anymore'. So I left and then I lost it all.
DIMINISHING RETURNS: (BloodRayne 2) is a low-budget BloodRayne, not Kristanna Lokens budet, that's fine, you know. She just made like half a million dollars more than me for doing the same fucking character!
DON'T NEED NOTHIN BUT A GOOD TIME: I wanted to do a movie with friends, and I'd heard only good things about Uwe from the people who have worked for him. I've never heard anything bad come out of anybody's mouth that's worked for him, so I would rather be in a movie where people have a good experience, rather than hearsay or rumors or gossip or talking shit about a person. I want to have a good time, I want to make some money, I want to be creative, and I want to do the best I can with the means for the project. We had a very low budget, so it's not gonna be like an A-List movie. It was 10 below zero and we did the movie two months before we were supposed to shoot it because of schedules, and we had to prepare very quickly. So, of course it was like, 'Let's go, come on, let's go for it, whatever happens, happens'.
Natassiawas the only thing that didn't suck as Typhoid Mary in Elektra
GIMME A BREAK, I SURE DESERVE IT: I just hope that I'll have the break-out role so no one will care whether I do a $100,000,000 film or a $200,000 one. There's a lot of pretension.
FREE YOUR MIND, AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: I think sometimes people have belief systems, and they follow these belief systems and they think they're perfect. I think that it's much more creative and gutsy and more 'with the flow' and better results are gonna happen if people are just open to the unexpected, like in life. If you're open to the unexpected, things happen. If you give people a chance, things happen. When you do take a chance, miraculous big things happen because you've sacrificed something. You gave up something and there's more owed by the universe.
HOLLYWOOD IS SO RETRO: It's all covered up in pretense and snobbery. It reminds me of the snobbery in the 17th century, when artists and pseudo-intellectuals thought they were better than other people, even though they wouldn't say it- it's in their attitude.
Check out this Pretty/Scary woman in Skinwalkers, which opens tomorrow, August 10th, in theaters!
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