Kate Beckinsale, who plays Vampire Selene in this Friday's Underworld (see interview), will battle more monsters in writer/director Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing on May 7. She stars opposite Hugh Jackman who is Bram Stoker's legendary monster hunter summoned to a distant and dangerous Eastern European land on a quest to vanquish evil. They will be battling Universal Pictures monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man."I'm a gypsy princess who teams up with Van Helsing to try to kill Dracula," Kate says of her role. "It was really fun. I mean, it's a romp. ['Underworld'] is much more of a serious action thriller thing. But ['Van Helsing'] is more of a family adventure romp. Very sort of high romantic, it looks like Hugh (Jackman) and I are competing for the longest hair extensions."
Starring with Hugh Jackman, who is now on Broadway playing Peter Allen in "The Boy From Oz", was interesting as he was preparing for the play. "I think with Hugh there is generally a fairly bit of singing just anyway. Peter Allen or no Peter Allen, so there was a fair bit of that. But yeah he was doing this movie, doing all his things. And on the weekends tap dancing lessons. He�s amazing. He really is."
You'll soon be able to buy Kate Beckinsale toys for Van Helsing! "There's going to be all these dolls of me. I know that my child is going to do nasty voodoo on them. And I should be in a neck brace, probably, the next time you see me."
With two of these kind of films coming out, Kate is quite the gothic action chick at the moment. "I think two you can get away with. Three, and it's a fetish. So I think that's enough now." That is, until the sequel deals come around, of course.
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