Kate Beckinsale Talks About Click
For the first time in a feature film, Kate Beckinsale's playing a mom onscreen. In real life, she's had seven years of experience as the proud mother of daughter Lily. In the comedy movie, Click, she's the mother of two and wife of Adam Sandler's character.
Click poses the question: if you were given a magical remote control that allows you to go revisit your favorite memories, fast-forwarding through portions of your life, and zoom ahead to see what your family's like in 10 or 20 years, would you use it?
Playing Adam Sandler?s Wife in Click: Beckinsale said she thoroughly enjoyed playing Sandler?s spouse in Click. ?I didn?t have to take him home, I didn?t have to yell at him about going and playing golf or all of that stuff that would probably really bug me in real life - if I was married to him (laughing). I had the sort of total movie pleasure of everything apart from anything?gross or leaving me on my own or any of that. See, it was perfect. It was a blissful marriage and I was really kind of sad when it was over."
On the Set of Click: ?I had such an amazing time on the movie. I really did think, you know, that I might just be this sort of roaming pair of breasts that wouldn't quite fit. You know what I mean? Everybody would be watching sports and I'd be kind of tolerated and then I might bend over and it might be an event. You know what I mean?
My daughter was around [during filming]. These kids were brilliant on the movie, but they were? If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them.
They all go home and say that they've got this special relationship. My daughter has decided that he's a relative. [He?s] just generous and brilliant to work with. I mean, really, I was so bummed out when it was over. I felt like summer camp had ended and nobody invited me to Hanukkah. It was great. I loved it. I'd do it again in a shot.?
Returning to Comedy: Beckinsale did a couple of comedies earlier in her career but recently has been busy with dramas and action films. The actress admits it was fun to return to something a little lighter. ?It was a big coming home for me. Actually, for me it was kind of a personal thing because I think my father had been in England a very well known comedy actor. I think I was very attracted to that because I had grown up on it. I think I also slightly tried to steer clear of it ? just I didn?t want to tread on anyone else?s patch. I kind of wanted to be on my own patch. And then on this movie I actually turned a year older than my father got to, and it was a very liberating moment. ?I made it to 32 and I?m in a comedy and everyone?s being really nice,? and I wasn?t away from the family because we shot in L.A. My daughter was around. It was just like a blissful and lovely sort of blossoming moment for me, you know??
The Aging Process: The characters in Click go back and forth in time, depending on where the remote control takes them. For any actor, seeing themselves made up to look older is a weird feeling. ?The ?gracefully aged? thing is a big shocker. I thought I was going to handle it better than I actually did,? confessed Beckinsale, adding, ?[Adam Sandler] looked like a mixture of Humphrey Bogart and George Burns??
Beckinsale continued. ?As for the aging thing, I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father. It?s just not normally from morning to afternoon. It gives you a moment of totally existential panic. You sit there for six whole hours and it?s kind of boring and goes on and on and on. Then at the end of it, you look so much worse and more creepy than you did when you went in. They modeled my hairstyle on the hairstyle my mother wore at my wedding so the whole thing was just kind of spooky.?
If a Magical Remote Control Actually Existed?: What feature would Beckinsale use? ?I?ve been a parent for seven years,? answered Beckinsale, ?I would press pause and I would take a big old nap. That?s what I?d do. That?s all I would do.?
Is there a special moment from her life she?d use the remote control to revisit? Beckinsale joked, ?God, I?m British, it?s all been such abject misery? No, I don?t know. I probably would go back to when my daughter was really a small baby and I knew in advance that I wasn?t going to accidentally sit on her and bust her. It would be nice to go back through that in a relaxed frame of mind, because she was a great baby.?
No Underworld 3 for Kate Beckinsale: Apparently Beckinsale has donned tight black leather for the last time - at least for an Underworld movie. Beckinsale revealed, ?I don't think I?m invited to that one. I think it was always planned as a prequel so I wasn?t a vampire yet.?
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