Kate Ditches Prison Garb For Retro Style

December 16, 2008

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Kate Ditches Prison Garb For Retro Style

Dec. 16 -- Kate Beckinsale is rocking a Jackie O. style for her cover story in this month's Capitol File magazine. In the equally chic interview (on newsstands 12/19), she discusses her role as Rachel Armstrong, a Washington, DC-based reporter in 'Nothing But the Truth', a thriller based loosely on the Valerie Plame case. Beckinsale also hits on the discomfort of filming a scene in prison garb while working next to actual prisoners, US citizenship, and her daughter's burgeoning acting career.

On her role in 'Nothing But the Truth': "As a woman and a mother, I had a very hard time with how long my character is in jail without seeing her son…[I]n terms of heroics, I probably would be less capable because I would be thinking of the effect on my child, and I'd probably have to come home."

"You feel ridiculous dressed up in a very similar prison costume, and you know [the women serving time are] all looking at you thinking, 'She's going home to her hotel, and we're staying here.'"

On whether she'll become a US citizen: "I never planned on living in America. I seem to have got myself here, to my amazement, married to an American - none of these things was I remotely anticipating. Maybe if I find myself still here in 10 or 15 years it would probably be silly not to be able to vote."

On her daughter Lily, who plays the young Rachel Armstrong in the film: "I [initially] said no because I thought she'd be on the set, and if she didn't get it, it would be such a disaster. But she insisted on auditioning, and got it, and had her three scenes with Robert De Niro, which I thought was absolutely wild at the age of eight."

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