Malin Akerman, who will be seen starring in the much awaited fantasy-adventure flick “Watchmen”, takes her clothes off and bares her body for the cover of Maxim magazine’s April issue. Besides, she also shows off her curvy figure in several other raunchy poses for a photo spread featured inside the publication.
In her cover shot, Malin is seen covering her nude breasts with her left hand while her right hand runs through her long blonde hair. “Exclusive! Watchmen’s Sexiest Superhero Malin Akerman Unmasked,” a tagline that accompanies Malin’s snap read.
Among the topics that Malin discusses during an interview with Maxim are her superhero costume and sex scene in “Watchmen.” “Really f****** hot,” are the three words she uses to describe the outfits she has to wear in the big screen movie, hitting the U.S. theaters this Friday, March 6. But “then I tried it on and I thought it was really f****** uncomfortable,” Malin complains. “And the smell? When you take it off, it’s like a human condom.”
From Ace Showbiz
MALIN Akerman is about to watch her star strike the stratosphere with her role in Watchmen, but her family keeps her grounded.
Some Hollywood stars treat an interview like a trip to the dentist. Every question is answered as if a molar is being wrenched from their jaw
The minute Watchmen star Malin Akerman enters the room, however, any thoughts of the dentist’s chair disappear amid a cloud of enthusiasm, flowing blonde hair and long legs. Very long legs.
“How cool is this?” Akerman gushes. “I’m in Melbourne!”
Best known for her performance as Ben Stiller’s deranged wife in The Heartbreak Kid, Akerman is a rare breed among movie actors: she still gets excited about the little things.
Thanks to her latest role, as superhero Silk Spectre II in Watchmen, one of those little things is a mini version of herself.
A perk of playing a superhero is the action figure.
“The whole experience of being in Watchmen is quite surreal, especially the action-figure bit,” she says. “It will be really cool when I become a grandmother and I’m showing my grandchildren how I used to look.”
Akerman’s acting career began in childhood, with a few commercials in her native Canada.
She began a university degree, but just when she’d dedicated herself to studying, she was lured away.
“I was studying psychology, but as I was doing that the acting started to take off. I was getting guest-star roles and really enjoying it,” she says.
“It was kind of like psychology, a little more selfish, but for that time it was good fun. When you are young like that you cannot fathom doing seven years of school. I just seized the opportunity.”
Laurie Jupiter and Dan Dreiberg are the most human characters in “Watchmen.” Caught up in the machinations and plans of severe characters, they encompass the street. Not the dingy, defeated streets Rorschach sees, nor the idealized streamlined avenues Adrian Veidt plans in his corporate castle. Laurie and Dan both stand in the average world where a retired costumed hero still buys groceries.
Malin Akerman and Patrick Wilson, who play the former Silk Spectre and Night Owl, respectively, talked with CBR News about their roles, their costumes, and the spirit on set of “Watchmen,” the new Zack Snyder film based on the classic DC Comics graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gobbons.
According to Patrick Wilson, fans at a recent preview screening had kind words about Laurie as she appears on screen. “The fans were saying [Malin] brought the character forward and made her a little more relevant,” he reported. “A lot of the fans complain about Laurie [in the book.] ‘Y’know, she’s just an incessant whiner.’”
Malin Akerman was unaware her character had that reputations amongst readers of the novel. “I hadn’t heard that. I’m so happy that the fans are pleased with it,” she said. “I did know that while it was being written, she was sort of an afterthought. Just to add a female character into it and she wasn’t one of the main roles at first. In the Absolute [edition of the book], you see all these vivid explanations of the characters and Laurie’s character is just kind of a half-page.”
As realized on screen, Laurie is an important part of the film’s dynamic. “She’s this sort of vulnerable woman who’s coming of age and finding her independence and finding love and [she brings] a softness to the whole film,” Akerman explained.
The superhero drama of Watchmen is a true change of pace for Malin Akerman, a veteran of romantic comedies such as The Heartbreak Kid and 27 Dresses. In fact, when our Brian Truitt caught up with her recently, she was finishing up another one, Couple’s Retreat, with Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Jason Bateman. It was the idea of going out of her comfort zone, though, that attracted Akerman to Watchmen. She play the Silk Spectre, a latex-clad heroine who’s brought up by her mom to fight crime, is romantically involved with two of the main characters, and is inextricably linked to yet another. “Yeah, she’s got a lot of emotional baggage,” Ackerman, 31, quips.
With all the drama your character is involved in, did it feel like a true comic book movie to you?
Not at all. We are real people — it just happens to be that the career we chose are those of vigilantes. I’ve never gone out at 3 in the morning and knocked out 10 guys in an alley in a latex outfit. That just isn’t my thing. But treating that as though it were a career, she really does become just a regular woman going through emotions and situations that any woman can or would. Other than the fact that she’s dating a superhuman man at first, of course. That’s another odd situation.
Yes, Dr. Manhattan, with whom your character travels to Mars.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have the budget to go all the way to Mars. The CGI was all new [for me] and a really cool thing to watch. I had no idea how they were going to pull it off. And in comes Billy Crudup in this crazy white pajama outfit with blue LED lights all over and dots on his face. It was pretty tough to keep a serious face for the first week. Really, everyone must have laughed in his face a few times. But it was an amazing concept: We needed that blue reflection on us to in order to make it look real for us.
Malin Akerman’s looks have opened doors in Hollywood – taking her from romcom blonde in 27 Dresses to feisty heroine in the new blockbuster Watchmen. And she hopes they will bring her the ‘meaty’ roles she so desperately craves.
With her stunning looks and kooky personality, Malin Akerman is on course for a glittering Hollywood career. The 30-year-old actress, born in Stockholm and raised in Toronto, starred as the younger sister of Katherine Heigl’s character in last year’s hit comedy 27 Dresses (‘I loved playing a bitch, a super-sexy airhead’) and as Ben Stiller’s sex-crazed wife in The Heartbreak Kid: ‘It was such fun. There’s a scene in which I am upside down with Ben on top of me. They call “cut” and you’re sitting there half naked. I just said, “Hi Ben, how’s your wife?”
‘I don’t mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I’m not self-conscious.’
Given her flair for broad, physical comedy, it’s not surprising that critics are calling Malin the new Cameron Diaz. ‘Cameron is a fantastic actress and I am so flattered,’ she says. ‘I do see a similarity between us and I hope that maybe one day we could play sisters.
‘I’m not embarrassed about taking off my clothes for a film. I don’t
know many women who have sex with a bra on. So let’s make it real
in the movies’’But I definitely want a wide range of films, which I feel maybe she hasn’t had – she does mostly romantic comedies.’ Which is perhaps why Malin is now breaking her own mould by playing a Lycra-clad warrior in the superhero blockbuster Watchmen.
Meeting Malin over breakfast in Beverly Hills, you quickly realise that she has little in common with her contemporaries. She orders coffee along with a goat’s cheese and tomato omelette with potatoes – and actually eats it. This is not a woman who lives on lettuce leaves.
With slanting, light blue eyes, high cheekbones and a wide forehead, Malin’s heritage (both parents are Swedish) has given her a more distinctive look than the standard Californian blonde. In fact, Malin is a brunette in her two most recent films – she wore a long dark wig for Watchmen, and she’s also dyed her hair for her role opposite Vince Vaughn in Couples Retreat, the romantic comedy she filmed at the end of last year.
‘I play a mother and housewife and didn’t want her to be a blonde bombshell – it wouldn’t be realistic,’ she laughs. ‘When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I’m used to it,’ she admits with a matter-of-fact grin. ‘But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.’
For many comic-book fanatics, “Watchmen” is considered the best graphic novel of all time. So it was inevitable that the stars of the “Watchmen” movie descended up on the last major comic-book convention that took place before the film’s opening. Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley joined “Watchmen” director Zack Snyder and co-creator Dave Gibbons for a February 28 panel discussion at the 2009 WonderCon event in San Francisco.
The last time the “Watchmen” stars gathered for a panel discussion at a comic-book convention was at Comic-Con International in San Diego in July 2008. Back then, no one (not even the stars of the film) had seen the movie trailer that was shown at Comic-Con. This time around, the stars had not only seen the movie, but they had also personally experienced the fan frenzy surrounding “Watchmen” at events such as Comic-Con and movie premieres around the world. In addition to the panel discussion, the audience members at WonderCon were treated to about 20 minutes of “Watchmen” footage. Check out what the stars of the movie had to say at this WonderCon panel.
Jackie, tell us more about the voice you used for your Rorschach character.
Haley: [He says jokingly] I was going through this dumpster behind my house, and there it was. Actually, when I read the graphic novel, that was the thing I heard in my head. There’s something about the little speech bubbles, the way they were drawn. And also just the way Dave [Gibbons] drew the character, that’s what I heard. And that’s what I did on my audition tape.
Zack [Snyder] and I even thought I should try some other stuff. But when it came down to it, Zack felt that [original voice] what was right. That’s what we stuck with. For a long period of time, I’d have to scream before my every shot, scream my voice out. And that’s what we did.
Malin, what about the challenge of wearing those costumes?
Akerman: I don’t usually wear latex or extremely high heels when I fight. The hugest challenge was [wearing] the heels. The costume definitely was not comfortable, but it looked pretty fierce.
It’s a murder mystery! It’s got superheroes you’ve never heard of! It’s totally deep and way metaphysical! It’s an ’80s period piece, with Richard Nixon and a giant blue naked guy!
Graphic novel adaptation Watchmen opens this week to big buzz, even though you may know nothing about it. But don’t worry. We sat down with the oddly familiar cast and director Zack Snyder to decode this antihero epic, and gather the five essentials:
1. Watchmen Is the Utimate Geek Comic: Want street cred at Comic-Con? Talk Watchmen. Anyone can go on about the X-Men, but aficionados obsess over Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986 series—about how very twisted masked men and women in tights would really be.
2. The Dark Knight Was Lightweight: This isn’t just a romp about beating up bad guys. Watchmen dwells on questions about the role of superheroes and the toll crimefighting takes on the psyche. Like The Dark Knight, only…darker. “You accept that Batman can walk around in a real world and that a bad guy can dress like a Joker,” Snyder tells E! News. “Watchmen blows that up again. “It’s time to take [those ideas] apart,” he says, “and re-examine—without a smile or a wink—what the f–k this mythology is about.”
3. Denny Duquette Is a Real A-hole: Izzy, don’t accept any marriage proposals from The Comedian, played by Grey’s Anatomy’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He may be one of the heroes, but he’s a bad dude. Seriously. “I may lose a couple of Grey’s Anatomy fans,” Morgan tells us, “but I’ll gain some Watchmen fans, so it’s an even trade.”
4. You Know These Characters, But You Don’t: Watchmen doesn’t have a Christian Bale or Heath Ledger or even a Wolverine or Spidey. What it has are heroes you’ll find familiar, but with names like Nite Owl, Rorschach, Moloch the Mystic—and Silk Spectre, actually Malin Akerman in tight yellow synthetics. “I don’t know if anyone in here has a latex fetish,” Akerman (maybe you know her from Entourage?) tells us. “I certainly do not after this film.”
5. The Giant Blue Penis Is a Fake: Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is the movie’s only hero with actual superpowers, an energy force who looks like a big buff guy. He’s too busy analyzing particles to put on pants, but don’t get too excited. “I like being nude in front of people as much as the next guy,” Crudup tells us, “but no, they insisted that I remain clothed, and they do all the work in postproduction.”
From E! Online