Kate Beckinsale : 'journalists Are Just Like Us'.

16 March 2008

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Kate Beckinsale was stunned to discover journalists lead similar lives to the stars they write about, after researching for her new role as a reporter.The British actress plays a newshound who exposes a Cia informant in Nothing But The Truth, and spent time with real-life Los Angeles Times writers to prepare for the part.She says, "I went to the La Times to follow around some to the journalist girls there. I was so sure I would see all the different ways their jobs were so unlike mine. I was more struck by the similarities."It's such a vocational profession where you're passionate about your work and you're married to another journalist, or someone who is passionate about journalism. It felt very similar."In seperate news the Underworld star was so shocked the first time she saw an opossum she dragged her daughter out of bed to stare back at the wide-eyed "monster".Beckinsale had no idea what an opossum was before she moved to Los Angeles a few years ago.And as the Underworld star watched the nocturnal creature intently studying her, it reminded her of Sir Anthony Hopkins' serial killer character Hannibal Lecter.She says, "We don't have things like that at home (in the U.K.). When we first moved here (Los Angeles) I heard a rustling noise outside and in the tree was an actual monster with big crazy yellow teeth like Hannibal Lecter.

"I started shouting, 'Look at the monster!' It was 11 at night, my daughter was probably four, and I dragged out of bed, I was so excited."

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