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.
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“Watchmen” is now out in theaters! Make sure you go on out and see it this weekend! 
As Watchmen coverage ramps up for the movie’s opening weekend, we find our favorite, leggy, blue-eyed blonde Malin Akerman saying just the right things about our beloved Silk Spectre…
When working on a film like Watchmen, which already has a strong fan following, do you feel more pressure to portray the role as accurately as possible?
“Absolutely. That was my biggest concern. You don’t want to disappoint the fans. I know I’d feel the same if I had a favorite novel or book and go to see the film and it sucks. So of course one of our biggest concerns is that the fan base is going to enjoy it because it really is for them, and then we hope that all the general public can enjoy it. It was nerve-racking to go to Comic-Con the first time to show some clips. Luckily, their reaction was beyond what we expected. They were so excited, so that was a really huge. Hopefully, the whole film will feel the same for them.”
From Comic Book Movie
This is a little long…
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Watchmen, to put it simply enough, is a comic-book movie. Tougher to state is what kind of comic-book movie it’ll be at the box office.
The year’s first big buzz film—if you don’t count Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, and as you now know, you shouldn’t—opens midnight Friday at more than 1,600 theaters, moving onto 3,600-plus locations for the full weekend.
Will it open Batman big? 300 strong? Incredible Hulk all right? A look at the scenarios:
1. Watchmen Is Batman: As long as you’re talking the pre-Dark Knight movies, and don’t adjust for inflation, then, yeah, sure, Watchmen has the potential to party like it’s 1989. Guestimates from those box-office analysts still willing to guess after last weekend’s Jonas Brothers debacle range from a $50-million-ish opening to a $70-million-ish opening.
2. Watchmen Is 300: This is the dream, $70 million-debut storyline for Warners, which backed the reputedly $120-$150 million movie and then wrangled with Fox to release it.
Like Watchmen, and unlike Hollywood’s other top-grossing comic-book movies, 300 was R-rated, based on a limited-run comic, wholly lacking in name-brand actors and directed by Zack Snyder. Should the comparisons stop there? To be on the safe side, probably, according to Paul Dergarabedian of Media By Numbers and Hollywood.com. “When something has only happened once in cinematic history,” Dergarabedian says of 300′s success, “you just can’t in a cavalier way say [Watchmen is] going to make $90 million in one weekend.”
3. Watchmen Is X-Men: Box Office Guru‘s Gitesh Pandya likes this comparison because, he writes in an email, “there is a huge built-in audience of fans.” Then again, while the first X-Men, which opened with $54.5 million in 2000, didn’t boast much more star power than Watchmen, it did boast Wolverine. “The [Watchmen] characters are not household names,” Pandya says, “so there will be a limit to its potential.”
4. Watchmen Is Hulk. Or the The Incredible Hulk. Take Your Pick: Pandya thinks the mid-50 millions (like last summer’s Incredible Hulk) or low-60s (like 2003′s Hulk) are possible for Watchmen. Also, like Watchmen, the Hulk movies were $100 million-plus budget behemoths.
5. Watchmen Is Wanted: Exhibitor Relations’ Jeff Bock can kinda, sorta see these movies matching up. Wanted, which debuted with $50.9 million last summer, was, after all, R-rated and not exactly based on a traditional, cape-and-cowl comic. That noted, Bock reminds in an email, “that particular R-rated action flick did have über-femme fatale Angelina Jolie, and Watchmen has, well, no one really.” Still, Bock wouldn’t be surprised by a $55 million, or more, Watchmen debut.
6. Watchmen Is the Jonas Brothers Concert Movie: No, the Jonas Brothers concert movie was not based on a comic, but its epic underperformance is the nightmare storyline for Warners. Fortunately, for the studio, it seems the least likely to occur.
Watchmen is said to be absolutely dominating this weekend’s advance ticket sales, and while you’ve heard that before, this time you should be able to see the results. MovieTickets.com, which was reporting 80 sold-out Watchmen midnight screenings, said it had new safeguards in place after data from one of its exhibitors “mistakenly inflated” its report of 700 Jonas Brothers opening-weekend sell-outs.
Ultimately, the Jonas Brothers’ box-office meltdown, not foreseen by many, may be helping Watchmen by tamping down expectations. “I’m not saying it’s not going to do amazingly well,” Dergarabedian says. “[But] I’m reticent to go out on a limb.”
7. Watchmen Is Watchmen. Whatever That Is: It’s longer than 300. It cost more to make than the original X-Men (and 300, for that matter). It’s not Batman, it’s not Spider-Man, and it doesn’t have a lot of room to be neither one of those guys. (Or the 17 comic-book movies to gross $150 million-plus, per Box Office Mojo stats, 8, or about half, are Batman and Spider-Man movies.)
“It’s kind of like The Matrix meets the comic-book movie,” Dergarabedian offers. “It’s sort of like a hybrid. It defies comparison.”
At least until the actual numbers roll in.
Not even the rain Monday evening could stop the celebrities from attending one of the most anticipated action films of the season. Hollywood Blvd was shut down between Highland Ave and Orange and lined with yellow carpet all the way down to screening at Mann’s Chinese Theater. Fans surrounded the streets and screamed for photos. The stars arrived around 6pm and did interview after interview after being rushed into the theater for the 7pm start time. Note to movie goers that the film is three hours long!!! So in order to the finish the entire film and still have a little after party…an on time start was a must.
So what’s the coolest part about playing a superhero? According to JACKIE EARLE HALEY he said in regards to not being able to recognize him on screen ‘That’s what I love about it. It’s the kind of thing I like to do when I can just disappear into a character.’ And as for MALIN AKERMAN she loved the fact she got to be a superhero that didn’t have any superpowers and was so relatable. Plus she was the only girl. Now for what she didn’t like was all training and having to give up chocolate, wine and pasta.
Maybe that’s the secret to losing that last few pounds. Book a blockbuster film which requires you to get into a tight spandex outfit. That’ll motivate you!
From the Examiner
The ads for Watchmen say the film is “from the visionary director of 300”. In fact, the film is not only directed by 300’s Zack Snyder, it is quite possible that the movie version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s iconic graphic novel would never have been made if 300 had not been one of the biggest hits of the new millennium.
Filmmakers have been trying to turn the novel—which is actually a collection of 12 DC comic books—into a movie for more than two decades. Warner Bros. became involved with it a few years ago but only became serious about making it after Snyder’s film about vengeful Spartans made almost half a billion dollars worldwide.
“This movie would not have been made had Zack not committed to it,” says veteran producer Lawrence Gordon in an L.A. hotel room. “The success of 300 had a lot to do with this movie finally getting made. He hit at the right time and he was the right director.”
The film Snyder has made is set in 1985 with Richard Nixon (Vancouver actor Robert Wisden) working on his fifth term as U.S. president. He’s still fighting the Cold War and assuming that a showdown between the Russian and American military will lead to nuclear disaster. The only man capable of saving the planet, nuclear physicist turned superhero Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), is being asked to help solve other problems. Meanwhile, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), one of the members of a disbanded group of superheroes that Manhattan once belonged to, believes that the murder of one of the former members of the group, the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is a signal that someone is out to eliminate all costumed crime fighters. The film opens on Friday (March 6).
Today, I have uploaded another 500+ photos of Malin. There is a variety of pictures from photo shoots, “Watchmen” images, “The Comeback” stills, “Entourage” stills, and photos from all the events that Malin has attended this year! There is so much that I have to add still – so keep on checking back to Malin Akerman Source for it all!
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