On not wanting to be typecast:
"Lily was described as a pretty bombshell. And I thought, 'Ohhh,' I don't want to do that. That is really something I have to try to keep away from because it is so easy. People often put me in that role, and I don't want to get stuck."
On being turned away upon first coming to the States to act:
"I think if it was easy, I wouldn't have achieved so much. When I first looked for an American agent [2005], I went to see someone in New York, and he was like, 'No, we're not interested.' I said, 'But I have a lead role in a French movie [The Ring Finger].' And the guy said, 'We don't watch French movies. We don't care. You should start by taking acting classes, then you can come back.' And I left and I thought, 'Oh my God, one day I'll have them calling me.' And they did. And I said no." (bad bitch tbh)
On her astronaut costume in 'Oblivion':
"It was very hot. I think a woman looks sexy in slightly manly clothes, like military, you know? It's not sexy like low-cut. It's sexy because it looks so strong and powerful."
On working with Terrence Malick:
"It was the best experience in the world for me. The way he works, it totally fits me. He trusts you so much. Nothing you can do can be a mistake. Because you just are. You become the character, there's no faking, there's no acting: it's just real. But at the same time, it is not you. He made me want to give everything. Like I would just cut myself open. I'd be like, 'OK, take my heart.' That's how it felt to work with him."
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Olga Kurylenko to launch pop career with Madonna producer
Former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko is set to launch her pop career after writing and recording songs with longtime Madonna collaborator Mirwais.
The producer met the "Quantum of Solace" actress backstage at a Madonna concert in Paris in 2010 and spent the best part of a year trying to persuade the Ukraine-born star to join him in the studio, reported Contactmusic.
Kurylenko also has a talent as a lyricist and singer and the pair finally hooked up.
"I wrote text for him. He wrote music... and I kind of did the voice... for two songs - and I want to do more. It just comes out of me; I find the beauty in certain collisions of words. I didn`t know how much passion was in music. Once you try it, you just want to do it all the time," she said.
But the actress insists her music career will remain a hobby - for now.
"It`s just a little thing," she added.
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CraveOnline interview where she talks about Magic City, Land of Oblivion, more about Malick and addresses script problems with Quantum of Solace
CraveOnline: Is it easy for you to be flexible with your voice and the accent?
Olga Kurylenko: I think I just use the accent I have because since she’s a foreigner anyway, it’s perfect. I don’t speak as an American I guess and my accent is unidentifiable. People don’t know where I’m from when I speak, so yeah, I think that’s perfect. But it’s also funny because when I listen to myself talk, I find myself speaking quite with a somewhat Hispanic accent even which would be perfect if she lived a couple years in Cuba and she could totally have that accent and she speaks Spanish obviously.
There is a moment when I speak a little bit of Spanish. We realize she absolutely understands Spanish because people don’t know she does.
CraveOnline: Did the Spanish accent just come out on set when you were around other people speaking Spanish?
Olga Kurylenko: Maybe it’s something that still stayed from Bond because I played a Bolivian and I had to work on a Hispanic accent. So somehow I think that’s easy for me to bring back. I can speak with a slight Hispanic accent somewhat so that certain words I could pronounce in that way. So I think that goes through and also the fact that we did have a lot of Spanish speaking people on set. It’s true that when you listen to them it’s easy to copy them. You can just copy them. I hear the way they speak, I can just speak the way they speak.
CraveOnline: Since he’s shooting a new Bond movie, Daniel Craig has said he always knew there were problems with Quantum of Solace. That seems a little convenient after the fact. Was anyone really speculating about problems with the script while you were making it?
Olga Kurylenko: What I heard from the director in the beginning was that he thought that the script wasn’t complete or something. I remember they were just rewriting it. They rewrote it and I think he participated and there was another writer, but that’s all I remember.
So they were working on it as they went but that happens very often. A lot of scripts people just modify things and suddenly you get new pages sometimes a day before your scene. “You know what, we just changed the whole dialogue.” So that’s a common thing that happens.
CraveOnline: Do you have any more movies coming out?
Olga Kurylenko: This year there’s one coming out in Europe that’s a French movie about Chernobyl, the accident that happened in Chernobyl 25 years ago. It’s called Land of Oblivion. I don't know if it’s going to come to America but it went to more than 20 festivals already. It went around the world so I’m very happy with it. The Terrence Malick film should come out in 2012 but I don't know when exactly.
CraveOnline: You shot that already?
Olga Kurylenko: Yeah, I shot it like a year and a half ago, right? Not last fall but the fall before. So that’s going to come out this year. There’s going to be The Expatriate that’s going to come out.
CraveOnline: Do you get to see any cuts of the Malick film along the way?
Olga Kurylenko: Oh no, with Terrence, no. He doesn’t show anything. I probably recorded about 400 pages of text. I read a book because there’s a lot of voiceover. I’ve only seen the approximate trailer that they were showing in Cannes that they made up a while ago. The movie wasn’t even cut but now they’re very close. I think they’re very close to being done.
CraveOnline: What will that character be like?
Olga Kurylenko: That character is different. She’s Russian, born in Russia, immigrated to France, has a daughter so she’s a mother. It’s about the relationship. My character has the relationship with this American man played by Ben Affleck. She’s basically desperately looking for real love but it’s just very difficult. The whole film is about their understanding and how they are trying to make their relationship work. It’s a very tough love story. They do love each other but there are various complications.
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