When she reflects on the film from the patio of L.A.’s über-hip Chateau Marmont hotel, grey Tsubi tank top (one of her favourite lines, she admits) and Chloé camisole draped over her delicate frame, there is a twinkle in her eyes (one hazel, one blue). “It was so much fun to do. [Costars] Michelle [Rodriguez] and Sanoe [Lake] and I lived in a house right on Sunset Beach together. I felt like I got a true dorm experience.”
When Bosworth returned from Hawaii, Hollywood was waiting and a string of films roles followed where she played everything from a cocaine-snorting, porn-star-dating teenager in Wonderland to a small-town grocery-store clerk in the romantic comedy Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, a character that is probably closest to the real Kate. Still, the role she seems most proud of is that of Sandra Dee to Kevin Spacey’s Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea. “One of my favourite films is The Usual Suspects [with Spacey in an Oscar-winning role]. I saw that film when I was a kid in middle school and thought, if I could work with any actor, it would be Kevin Spacey.”
And as fairy tales go, it seems the admiration was mutual. After spending months together on location in Berlin, Spacey recommended Bosworth for the biggest role of her career: this summer, she will play Lois Lane in Superman Returns. So how does she feel about filling those iconic conservative pumps? “It’s so weird being on a film that big. You’re wondering when you’re going to be tapped on the shoulder and hear, ‘Thanks for being our stand-in, but you’re replaced with somebody better,’ ” she says, laughing. “You do feel the pressure. The size of it is overwhelming.”
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