Whether a bubbly blonde bombshell in last year’s 27 Dresses, Ben Stiller’s psychotic new wife in the Farrelly brothers’ The Heartbreak Kid or a sexy crime fighting vigilante in the much anticipated comic-turned-film Watchmen (in theaters March 6), Malin Akerman is full of surprises. Arriving at our shoot at Hollywood’s legendary Roosevelt Hotel, Akerman’s warm smile and upbeat attitude are immediately contagious, but as she settles down in the makeup chair, we can’t help but be a little taken aback. While chatting with our artist, Akerman has slipped into fluent Swedish… did we mention she was born in Sweden? Oh and she’s also a former model raised in Canada who likes to sing in rock bands whenever she can find the time. Something tells us Akerman isn’t your typical beautiful big screen starlet and might just have a few more aces up her sleeve than just a pretty face.

How did you first get involved with Watchmen? Were you familiar with the comic before joining the cast?
No, I wasn’t familiar with the comic book before I got involved. I really actually thought I blew the audition. I didn’t like my performance at all and called my agent and just said, “It just didn’t feel a hundred percent,� and then I got the call that I got it, which was amazing! It kind of crept up on me slowly, just the magnitude of what this was going to be. Now of course I am very familiar with the novel and all of its fans. Going to Comic-Con was like an adrenaline rush. You feel like you’re on drugs! The energy that these fans exude and give to you, it’s so great! It must feel like what it feels like at the end of doing a theatre show and everyone stands up and there’s a standing ovation. We love them for that.

What went into prepping for the role of Laurie Juspeczyk/ Silk Spectre II?
Well, there was definitely a lot of prep work. It was actually two months of prep work, which was mostly physical training and fight training. We started shooting the movie in the beginning of October, but I started training in the beginning of August with a personal trainer five days a week. I was in so much pain, I couldn’t even move my body the first week. We shipped off to Vancouver where we met our flight coordinators and started doing the fight coordination and then just got going on the film.

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