Just Call Her Jaime

James King is busy making a name for herself. Oops, make that Jaime.

The 22-year-old Omaha native, whose films include last year's "Pearl Harbor" and the new film "Slackers," was born Jaime King. Her parents named her after Jaime Sommers, a.k.a. "The Bionic Woman" (as played by Lindsay Wagner in the 1970s TV adventure series).

"My birth certificate says Jaime. J-A-I-M-E. My grandparents, when I was younger, started to call me Jiminy Cricket. Then my parents started calling me James - and James stuck. When I first started to model, there was somebody else at the agency already named Jaime so that's how I got James."

King wants to make the switch back to Jaime, mostly to end the gender confusion each time she makes a hotel or restaurant reservation. Meanwhile, she's having fun making the transition from New York model to Hollywood actress. "I'm like a kid in a candy store. I just want to be a part of everything. It's a really exciting time."

What King likes most about her character in "Slackers," also starring Jason Schwartzman and Devon Sawa, is that although Angela is the object of everyone's affection, she's also fairly ordinary. "I like to be accessible, someone that people relate to," she says.

This spring, she will be seen opposite Joshua Jackson in "Lone Star State of Mind." Then she tackles action, comedy and drama in "Bulletproof Monk" with Chow Yun-Fat.

"Bulletproof Monk" is very demanding physically, says King. She spends six hours a day doing either strength training or martial-arts training. But she's not complaining.

"It's fun. Working out is one of my favorite things to do. ... I'm getting paid to get in shape, then I'm going to make a really awesome movie, and your body gets so incredible, and you're learning kung fu from the most incredible masters you could ever hope to work with."