Famke Janssen

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

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