Malin In Inked Magazine
This is another lengthy interview so I’m going to post some and then link to the rest of the article. Malin also has some hot photos to accompany the interview:
Watch Out! – Malin Akerman – Interview
by Eric Alt, photos by Steve Shaw
Here’s an easy tip for anyone looking to score a free tattoo in Los Angeles: Just walk into a shop, ask to use the restroom, and then casually let slip that you don’t currently have any tattoos but would really love to get something one day. Bingo! Next thing you know you’ll be in the chair, free of charge. Oh, and you should be blond. And Swedish. And drop-dead gorgeous. In other words, it’s probably best to be Malin Akerman.
Of course, for Akerman, seizing opportunities like this is what it’s all about. After her parents moved from Stockholm to Canada when she was a child, Akerman casually pursued modeling and commercial acting as a way of having some fun and making some cash while she competed nationally in figure skating and made plans to attend college as a psychology major. A trip to L.A. later, Akerman found herself getting some serious work that positioned her as both sexy (dropping her top in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, rounding out a ménage à trois in Entourage) and fearlessly hilarious (terrorizing Ben Stiller in The Heartbreak Kid, infuriating Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses). But if these roles lit the fuse, her next film should provide the explosion: Akerman will be seen as Silk Spectre in the most hotly anticipated comic book movie this side of Gotham City—an adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel Watchmen helmed by 300 director Zach Snyder. Is it any wonder this woman can weaken the willpower of even the most hardened tattoo artist?
How many tattoos do you have right now? I have two at the moment. But I have to say, were I not in the business that I’m in I would have had sleeves by now.
Really? Yes. I’m a tattoo fanatic.
Do you think full sleeves will ever be a possibility? No, probably not, just because this is hopefully a long-term venture, this career thing. [Laughs.] Hopefully I’ll get to the point Meryl Streep is at. If I can still be doing it at 50 or 60. …
More and more, though, we see actresses sporting highly visible body art. Yeah, Angelina Jolie is a great example. She’s covered and they’re fabulous. She’s got some really cool tattoos. Obviously you can have tattoos, but it just takes that many more hours in the morning to cover them up, and I’m not a morning person. The more sleep I can get, the better. I’ll skip the sleeves, but I’m sure I’ll get another tattoo or two—some little ones around my body.
When did you get your first one, and what was it? The first one I got, five years ago, is on the nape of my neck. It’s a lotus flower and Tibetan Sanskrit that means “to play.” If we’re really going to get deep with it for a second, I grew up Buddhist. My mother was Buddhist, and the lotus flower is a huge representation of Buddhism because it grows without roots. It kind of represents you making your own life with no roots. You make it what you want to be. And the Tibetan Sanskrit “to play” is sort of like, “to play the game of life.” And that’s sort of what my life is, a big game.
To view the full interview click here.
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Couples Retreat
HappyThankYouMorePlease
The Bang Bang Club
Elektra Luxx
The Proposal
Watchmen
27 Dresses
