The Brit Kate Beckinsale is best known for small, arty films such as "Cold Comfort Farm" and "The Golden Bowl." In "Pearl Harbor" she plays a Navy nurse torn between two pilots.
The women they did have were superb but, yeah, sometimes you'd walk on the set and go, "Penis, penis, penis..."
No, no, I'm happy about that. It's very nice not to be part of a tragic legend sometimes. There are many, many people in England who wouldn't even know I'm an actress but they see the name, and they go, "Is that your dad?"
You do feel cursed. You also start thinking, "Oh, God, of course I'm in the cheap TV one!" I got the most personally horrible reviews I've ever gotten for "Emma." Some English newspaper said I had "the features of a snail."
Oh, yes. The hard thing was when we did the hospital scenes, and they had literally hundreds of grisly men walking around. I didn't want her to see that. It's one thing for her to see me coming home with lots of lovely red paint on my hands--"Oh, Mommy's been painting"--but we had some amputees who'd been made up to look like it just happened. We used to just pull her hat down over her eyes and run when we saw anybody grisly coming toward us.
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