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Brave heart: Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale's icy thrillers heat up the big screen this spring
By Noreen Flanagan
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On occasion, Beckinsale finds humour in some of the coverage her life generates, like the latest rumours that she's a major advocate of the bead diet. Billed as the latest Hollywood fad, the diet dictates that women on a 1,200-calorie-a-day regimen wear a bracelet with 12 beads. When they eat 100 calories, they slide one bead to the other end of the bracelet. "I've never heard of it," says Beckinsale, laughing. "It sounds like complete nonsense. I've also read that I eat cotton wool to fill up my stomach. And I recently found out that I had a nose job, which is disproved by the fact that my daughter is walking around with the exact same nose and, no, we didn't have mother-and-daughter nose jobs! My husband apparently went through a stage where he bought a lot of paintings of naked women."
Ignoring or being bemused by tabloid fodder is one thing, but learning to cope with the paparazzi has taken some time to perfect. Beckinsale says that she has managed to create a filter where she can walk down the street and literally not see people whispering or pulling out their video cameras. "It's not that it doesn't bother me," she says. "I literally don't see them."
While some celebrities use their fame - and the publicity that comes with it - to promote causes they care about, Beckinsale says that she isn't "mature" enough to take advantage of the situation. "Part of the reason I'm not a pain in the ass is that I'm in total denial about being a celebrity," she explains. "I have a completely British sense of embarrassment about fame. I think if I turned up and said I'd give my name to a group, the members would say 'So what? Who are you?'"
One thing Beckinsale isn't shy about admitting is her "immense capacity" to love. She says that it is, by far, her best trait. "My father died when I was very young, so I always feel grateful that we're all here," she says. "I'm very bed-centric: when my daughter, my husband and I are asleep in the same bed, I feel like the cave is complete. That's when I'm happiest."
Kate's Faves
•Beauty must-have "M.A.C's Vanilla and Wedge eye shadows."
•Style icon "Ava Gardner. I envy her curves."
•Don't go there! "I feel fine in a long gown or pants, but in a little dress I feel like a transvestite. Stylists suggest cute little Marc Jacobs dresses, but I just can't!"
•Top three on her life list "Learn how to drive, study Latin and take singing lessons."
•Theme song "'I Am the Walrus' by The Beatles."
•Last good book "A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. It was brilliant!"
•Pet peeve "If I see a celebrity being an ass about giving an autograph, it makes me sick."
•Politest celeb "Adam Sandler [her Click co-star]. I've never seen him be anything but completely gracious."
•Funny games "I love practical jokes. When my husband was directing Live Free or Die Hard, I drew a heart tattoo on him while he was asleep. It had 'Bruce' [Willis] written inside. He didn't notice it until Bruce's daughter asked him, 'Why do you have a tattoo with my dad's name on it? That's really creepy.'"
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