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KRISTANNA LOKEN best known as
T3’’s Terminatrix, returns in the sexy,
T3
dark vampire movie BloodRayne
INSTINCT: It’s a pleasure to speak with you…
KRISTANNA LOKEN: Thank you. I’m happy to be a
part of Instinct!
Are you a vampire fan?
I’ve always loved them. That whole taboo aspect of
needing something so intimate from someone on such
a deep level: taking their life force to sustain your own.
It’s also androgynous, which is intriguing. It’s not male or
female; it’s just blood to survive.
Who’s your favorite big-screen bloodsucker?
I was a big Interview With The Vampire fan. It’s that
classic, 1700s, immortal, tortured soul trapped in a
human body. Sexy cast, good time period, sucking
blood: You can’t beat it!
How was filming BloodRayne in Romania?
Tough. As countries go for a vampire film though,
it was the quintessential location. We shot all through
the Transylvania mountain range. We shot in the oldest
inhabited medieval village in all of Europe—the town that
Vlad the Impaler was originally from. The castles and the
monasteries—you can’t re-create that gothic sensibility. k
text//JONATHAN RIGGS
photo//RUSSELL JAMES/ICON INTERNATIONAL
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Go see BloodRayne, opening on January 6.
GET THIS GUY
OH MY GOSH, IT’S JOSH!
More Than Just A Pretty Face In Primetime TV
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here may be a plethora
of beautiful women catfighting for screen time
on NBC’s Las Vegas, but it’s whitehot Josh Duhamel who puts the
cha-ching in our slot machines. Last
month, the Josh-ster won Instinct’s
internal office year-end poll for the
hottest hetero on TV today. In case
you’re not as ardent a fan as we are
(and don’t wallpaper your laptop
or your bedroom with his hotness),
here are five things you should know
about our main man Josh:
1. He was going to be a dentist.
Fortunately for gay men everywhere,
he didn’t make the undergrad grades
to get into dentistry school, so he set
his sights on Hollywood and put his
pearly whites in pictures instead.
2. Josh got his big break as a shirtless
stud on All My Children and went
on to win a Daytime Emmy as Best
Supporting Actor in 2002. The real
swoon to the story is that sweet-as-
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pie (and just as yummy) Josh ran
into the crowd to thank his mom
before he went to accept the award.
3. Since pec pics of our pretty boy
are probably what you’re really after,
we figure we should remind you
that gratuitous shirtless shots of
Josh polka-dot Win A Date With Tad
Hamilton!, the fluffy and harmless
(but otherwise forgettable) 2004
popcorn flick.
4. Duhamel is currently filming
brat-packer director Emilio Estevez’s
Bobby about the 1968 assassination
of Robert Kennedy. Duhamel is the
resident hottie in a cast list that reads
like a Who’s Who of Hollywood
hotshots, has-beens and have-nots:
Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins,
Demi Moore, Christian Slater,
Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone and
another Josh named Jackson (we’ll
let you determine his category).
5. Josh Duhamel wants to be my
boyfriend. He keeps calling. I’ll have
to let him down easy.—MIKE WOOD
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I can imagine.
I also got involved helping this non-profit for abandoned babies. That’s a
really big issue there. These children—infants, essentially—get dropped off
at hospitals if they’re not well, and people don’t have the money to fetch
them. They really have no chance to rehabilitate. Any time I had off, I’d just go
love on the babies. They had horrible bronchitis and IVs in their little arms.
Fortunately, I’m able to give back. So I actually built them their own facility.
Awesome. You’re also an avid equestrienne, right?
Growing up on an organic fruit farm, I got a choice from my mom: Girl Scouts
or horseback riding. Well, there was just no choice. I’ve done amazing rides all
over the world: from staying for a week in a cabin in Hawaii with no electricity
or running water, just trailblazing through the rain forest, to an unguided trip
through northwestern Ireland, which was just us, a map and a tide chart for
10 days. Most recently was Namibia, Africa. We did 300 miles in 10 days. That
was actually over 9/11. We were completely removed from society. We were
probably some of the only people in the world who didn’t know.
How surreal. What’s your most bizarre career moment?
All the time you’re doing bizarre stuff, especially in action movies. On T3, I had
to pretend like I was absorbing bullets. Oh, or when I got magnetized against
a particle accelerator. That was some weird shit. If you try to rationalize—
“what can I do to make myself getting electrocuted look better?”—you’re not
really going to come up with anything! [Laughs]
How was your stint on As The World Turns?
God, that was my first paying, professional job.
Was it nonstop soapy scandal?
I was supposed to be the speed-aged daughter of Meg Ryan’s character. For
my screen test, they had me read with a 15-year-old actor. I was 13, and he was
going to play my love interest. So he’s supposed to kiss me, and he shoves his
tongue down my throat. Jason Biggs—that was him. [Laughs]
With all your training, is everything you touch a deadly weapon?
It’s safe to say that I could handle myself in a dark alley. For T3 I did Krav
Maga, and I studied with a weapons coach for the .45. I’ve studied fencing;
I’ve worked with the big axe, sword, spear and shield—the medieval thing.
You better watch out how I am with this phone! [Laughs]
Don’t kill me for asking, but what chick would you switch for?
It’s more like, what chick haven’t I switched for? [Laughs] I’m partial to
Michelle Rodriguez. We became good friends filming BloodRayne.
Who’s tougher?
Hmm...I’m usually on top. [Laughs]