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As Battlestar Galactica prepares to end its run on SciFi, time is running out to catch Grace Park as multiple copies of sexy Cylon Number Eight. But don’t worry – her new series with Benjamin Bratt, The Cleaner, just premiered on A&E, so you can watch as she plays a wild woman on a team of intervention specialist. Recently, the Korean-Canadian actress shared stories with FHM about stealing props, traveling, on-set hijinks, and, naturally, sex with robots.

With Battlestar ending, what can fans expect from the last episodes?
You’re going to get to see a wrapping up of all the events that have occurred and you’ll find out who survives, who dies, and who the final Cylon is. There’s another interaction between my two characters, Boomer and Athena, and there’s a lot of history we finally clear up with them. We actually just wrapped a few hours ago. It was six AM and we drank champagne at sunrise.

Wow. So, now that you’re done, did you steal anything from the set?

Yeah, there were a lot of things already stolen that I wanted, but I got my flight suit and dog tags. And Eddie Olmos had a sign near the trailers that said ““Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Parking,” that I took out to my car on the last day. I’ll stick it on my garage.

So, after playing a bunch of identical-looking characters on the show, are we going to see you in an Eddie Murphy-style movie like Norbit?
Haha, I never thought of that. I didn’t even know I’d be playing two Sharon’s. I’ve done it to the best of my ability but yeah, that’s not something I really want to revisit.

Have you ever had any awkward moments with fanboys?
I was in Starbucks the other day and some guy said “Cylon!” when he saw me. He kind of yelled at me and I was just like, “Yep, I do play a Cylon.” I found out later that he didn’t mean to do that – he just reacted that way was kind of embarrassed. It was funny.

Apparently, scientists think that humans will have physical and emotional relationships with robots in the future. What do you think of that?
It’s weird, because I’ve seen pictures of two people and you realize one’s actually a robot. I have no idea what’s going to happen a hundred years from now but if someone feels the best-suited person for them is actually a robot, well, it’s better than not having anybody. But, there are billions of people on earth, so what’s stopping them? I’m for human-human relationships, but don’t tell anybody that yet.

So on your new show, The Cleaner, what’s your character like?
My character Akani is a former drug addict who’s part of a team of interventionists that use unconventional methods. She’s a bit of a wild card. She likes to have fun, and she has an inheritance, so she’s not doing it for the money. She’s not afraid to say what she thinks.

I heard that she’s a sex addict, too. Is that true?
Haha, no. We joke that every character’s addiction is sex. She’s a sexual being but she’s not a nymphomaniac at all. We don’t see her having sex on screen, at least not so far, but she’ll have her talk and we’ll see if she’ll end up walking her walk.

So how are you and Akani similar?
I can be cheeky like Akani, and I like adventure. I don’t blow money like she does on clothes, because they’re not that big a deal to me. When I read the pilot, I liked what she was doing so much I actually told the basis for Benjamin’s character, the real interventionist, that I’d come work for him if the show didn’t happen. I’ve done enough acting that I don’t need to do it the rest of my life. I like stuff that’s fun and always changing.

If you don’t blow money on clothes, what do you spend it on?

Oh, I love traveling and I’ll go places on both the high and low end. Like, I’ll stay in the Regent Shanghai, which is beautiful, and then a tent in India. There was one time where my husband and I tried visiting the Taj Mahal and the place we stayed was so nasty that we went to bed fully-clothed. There was no nookie whatsoever, just a peck on the cheek. Another time, in Rio, we were in crowd of thousands and my husband got mugged really quickly by a girl. He was shit scared but I said, “that’s awesome.” If you always go high class, you don’t get that exhilaration. You get better stories this way.

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3/15/2009 6:10:32 AM

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