Perfectly formed and deadly - meet the cyborg who kicks Arnie's ass. Towering at 5'11" gorgeous former model Kristanna Loken reportedly beat out a host of actresses - from Famke Janssen to ex-WWF wrestler Chynna - to bag the role of Arnold Schwarzenegger's android foe in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Now it's Maxim's turn to test her metal.
What kind of training did you do for the role?
I had to learn the martial art of Krav Maga - it's the Israeli form of martial arts that they teach the military, a really perfected form of street fighting. I also had to abstain from sugar, salt and alcohol. In fact, I was unable to do much of anything except work out and eat protein.
Lucky filmgoers get to see you completely naked. Were you comfortable with the nudity?
It was fine. I mean it's not in a sex scene; it's very abstract and very artistic. If I'm ever going to do it, I ought to do it now rather than at 50. So why not?
You look great naked, did you have to work hard to look that good?
It really got fine-tuned towards the end when I had to do the nude stuff. In the back of my mind I kept thinking I'm fighting Arnold and I've got to be naked in front of the world. So that was incentive. I would work, like 20 hours and work out constantly in my gym and my trailer because of the 'birthing' scene, as I call it.'
Give us the inside on shooting the nude sequence?
It was supposed to be filmed the first night [of shooting] but ended up being the last night, which worked out great because I had all this time to fine-tune my body. How nude am I in the scene? Nude. Completely. I was thinking, wow, I'm probably one of the only people who's ever walked down Rodeo Drive naked... legally. That was probably the most exhilarating moment of the whole production.
How did you find letting loose such a large amount of heavy ordnance during filming?
I use mainly a .45 in the movie, I'd gone to the shooting range before, but I really had to get comfortable with a gun. Because the character is not human, I had to allow people to believe that I am shooting a gun as simply and effortlessly as picking up this coffee cup. I got really used to the weapons, firing as much as I could without blinking - one handed, both hands, everything.
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