Kate Bosworth: We Interview Lois Lane

We turned the tables on famous Daily Planet star reporter Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) recently in L.A.'s Century City by asking her to answer our questions about her new role as the love of Superman's life in the new film Superman Returns. We've spoken with the beautiful blonde with the unusual eyes about her roles as a hot surfer chick in Blue Crush, as a lucky supermarket worker in Win a Date With Tad Hamilton, as Val Kilmer's drugged out girlfriend in Wonderland and as 1960's starlet Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea and Kate just gets more gorgeous as her acting talents grow.

For our interview, the star grabbed plenty of attention by wearing a hot, extremely low-necked Stella McCartney dress in dark green and black stripes. Guys' eyes were popping out in the hotel halls! No shy, conservative reporter here! Kate's hair is brunette on screen as Lois but, in person, the actress is back to her long tousled blond locks pulled over to the side by a covered rubber band.

So, what's it like to fly with Superman and have Lex Luthor himself (Kevin Spacey) suggest you for the part of Lois Lane? And just how nerve-wracking are those TV talk shows? Is it next to impossible to do an underwater scene in a soggy formal gown? Just how cute and cool is Brandon Routh? Tune in for "Miss Lane's" fun answers...

We comment on Kate's pretty but really low-cut dress as she comes in and sits down with us.

Kate: It must be a good dress because everyone keeps asking me. Well, it must be really good or really bad! (We tell her it's good).

TeenHollywood: What was it like working with Brandon as the newbie Superman? Give him any acting tips?

Kate: Oh he so did not need any tips from me. He was so unbelievably professional and he blew me away on many different levels but certainly on the professional level. He's in this skintight suit and the cape and had his curl and all these things that had to be [perfect]. And he had people constantly picking at him and prodding him and making sure the cape laid perfectly. Because of course it couldn't flip over, you know that'd be...you couldn't see that on the screen.

TeenHollywood: Oh, God forbid that Supe's cape was crooked!

Kate: [smiling] It was a constant pressure and focus on him. I'm usually the one who is getting poked and prodded so much because I'm the girl, so I'm sitting there thinking 'oh, thank god, it's all on Brandon this time'! And he was just so wonderful because he never once got impatient or frustrated. When you're doing a scene where it might be more emotional and there are heightened emotions going on inside of you, to have someone picking at you, it's just an easier situation to snap or get annoyed but he never did. And he would just kind of close his eyes and zone out and he was just constantly professional and lovely to everybody.

TeenHollywood: So how do you think Brandon will handle all the attention? Any advice for him?

Kate: Oh god, not from me. Again, he doesn't need it. And that's the simplest way I can put it. He's just a lovely person and he's not someone I see changing in anyway to the negative. He really is genuinely a wonderful down-to-earth, kind person. I adore him.

TeenHollywood: How do you approach the talk show world when you are promoting a movie, being put on the spot like that? Isn't it weird?

Kate: It's such a unique strange experience when you're in that moment and you're about to go on stage. I remember I thought, 'oh my god, I'm going to faint, I'm going to faint right now, right this second. I'm supposed to be walking out and it's going to be embarrassing.' And it didn't matter what anybody else had told me, I just thought, 'I'm starting to see spots and I'm gonna pass out right now'. I would just say be yourself. That's all I could say to Brandon and, as for all the rest, just hold on for the ride.

TeenHollywood: You worked with Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea. What was it like to work with him again as bad guy Lex Luthor?

Kate: It was a very different experience. Actually, it was just as wonderful and amazing. I love Kevin! He's such a special person to me. In Beyond the Sea he was my husband and in this one he's my archenemy. That was so fun for us to play on and laugh about. I again am constantly impressed by Kevin, because he had six weeks and not a day over to do this film because then he had to fly, on the last day, back to London and star that evening in a stage production at The Old Vic [theater]. So, in between playing Lex Luthor, where he's brilliant, he would finish a take, go to his trailer, sit outside and be learning lines for that play. He just wants to do it all and it's constantly impressive to me.

TeenHollywood: Did you know that he was suggesting you for the role of Lois Lane?

Kate: I didn't know, not when it was going on, no, not at all. I went in and met with Bryan (Singer, the director). I'm sure I sat down with him on one of those first meetings and he said 'oh, I spoke to Kevin about you.' It's really wonderful when you get to make friends and companions like I have with Kevin in this business. Because we all know people who aren't as constant and supportive and loyal.

TeenHollywood: Are you familiar with the Lois Lane character from TV, movies, etc?

Kate: Yeah, well, certainly I think every little girl loves Lois Lane. But, for me, it was really from Richard Donner's (1978) film. I saw that when I was about six or seven, and it had already come out because I hadn't been born when it was originally released. I don't even think I was a glint in my parents' eye. But I remember watching it and it's a magical film and Superman is magical.

TeenHollywood: Do you think this Lois is a little bit stronger this time around since she has a child? The Margot Kidder film version of Lois was smart but kind of chaotic or frantic.

Kate: Obviously, the element of her having a son would change a woman completely when she has to concentrate on someone else rather than herself. I think in terms of her being perhaps as you say so chaotic or bubbly or frantic, it was my choice [not to be] because I couldn't imagine someone being so unfocused when, although I don't have children, I would imagine that your focus is constantly on that other person. So I think it forced her to mature.

TeenHollywood: Lois loves Superman but he's been gone so long that she's now seeing the James Marsden character. Did you cook up an explanation for that in your own head?

Kate: I wish I could speak eloquently and clearly on love, but I don't think it's really anything that someone can have the answers to...and I think that everyone in life understands that there's no reason to the heart, really. Superman is her great love. And as much as you try to push that away or if you're hurt by that person or confused by them or disappointed, there's no denying what you feel in your heart. Although she loves the person that she's with and he's a wonderful man and safe, her heart belongs to somebody else.

TeenHollywood: Did you train for the flying scenes? You wear a dress the whole time. Wasn't that uncomfortable, flying in it.. keeping it down?

Kate: [laughs] I know...all the ladies know exactly what I'm talking about. It's beautiful to watch, it's not the most comfortable contraption that I've ever been in. You're in a harness, and over the harness is like a bodysuit kind of thing, and then over that is the dress—and I get claustrophobic really easily, so I remember just thinking 'I just can't even think about this because I couldn't get this thing off if I wanted to', and that always freaks me out. Like when I did Blue Crush and I had to have a head-cast made of me. You have plaster all around your head and just two straws sticking out of your nose and I remember just thinking, 'just chill out, it's going to be fine. It'll come off at some point.' And it's the same...it's just a strange feeling. And then the hanging up there. I felt worse for Brandon. I could deal with it but the pressure it gives on your lower body is just outrageous so...I had more sympathy for him than me.

TeenHollywood: Ouch! What about the scene in the water where you are in trouble? Was that you or a stunt person?

Kate: Oh, yeah! I mean that was all me. I've worked with water before obviously [on Blue Crush] but this one was much more. It's being in a confined space as well. Obviously it's a lot more action in terms of being thrown around and hitting my head. It was really fun to do. It was exciting because you can see how the audience will get really involved. But it's hard work. It really is. And then that is the moment where you start to feel more like a stunt person at some point.

TeenHollywood: Would you do the sequel if they ask you?

Kate: Oh I can't wait. I can't wait!

TeenHollywood: So, overall, you liked the experience?

Kate: Oh, I loved it! I absolutely loved it. My stunt woman would look at me and say, 'well I don't know how you do what you do.' And I would look at her and say, 'I don't know how you do what you do.' And that's kind of why we have our own professions. I loved so much being on this film! And it's exciting when you get to do [an interview] and talk about something that you love in terms of the film, but also the people and the experience that was involved.

TeenHollywood: What would you like to see happen in the next movie?

Kate: I had a dream about this, actually. This was before I saw the film--and I had a dream that I was watching the film and I saw my character just jump off a building. And I remember watching going, 'I never did that, wow, they must have added that in, that's crazy' in the dream. So maybe it would be fun to just do a full-on—obviously not really jump off a building—but have some kind of fun big fall.

TeenHollywood: Did you like being a brunette?

Kate: Yeah, yeah.

TeenHollywood: Did people treat you differently?

Kate: Um...yeah, they do. They do. I think whenever you change your appearance you get treated a bit differently. Yeah I did feel a bit different.

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Lynn Barker is a Hollywood-based entertainment journalist and produced screenwriter.