Loken spam, omg it must be a weekday!

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Only two more weeks until Kristanna shows up on TLW, but for those in withdrawl here's some Painkiller Jane goodness that should help tide you over. Hi-res goodness even :D



Hi, I'm Kristanna Loken, I'm dead sexy. Janine wishes that she could think of something funny, witty or sexy to add, but she's too busy staring at my insane hotness to think coherently. Honestly, I can't blame her, I am totally slammin'.


Oooh, co-executive producer status means that I totally have like a shitload of creative control. I'm totally gonna make Jane make out with a girl!


What do you mean Carly Pope has a job playing a lesbian on another show? Did you tell her how dead sexy I am? Check and see if Jill Wagner or Jessica Gower are still hanging around? No? Okay, okay, don't panic. What's Dina Meyer doing? Her entire filmography is B-grade action movies she'll fit in perfectly over here!



Loken Feels No Pain In Jane (from scifi.com)

Kristanna Loken, who stars in the upcoming SCI FI Channel original series Painkiller Jane, told SCI FI Wire that she got excited after reading the comic book on which it is based: so much so that she also signed on as executive producer. "I read the comic and fell in love with the depth of the comic-book character," Loken said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 12. "It just had so many different levels: the pain and the healing and the kind of eternal question of 'why is this happening to me?' is a very human statement. So then I read [executive producer] Gil's [Grant] wonderful first episode and wanted to come up and work also as a co-exec."

In the series, Loken plays a DEA agent who is recruited by a covert government organization tasked with capturing "Neuros"—genetically enhanced individuals who possess superhuman powers of the mind. During the course of her first investigation with the team, Jane inexplicably discovers that she too possesses extraordinary abilities: She is impervious to injury, but not pain. She develops miraculous regenerative powers, healing from every injury and finding herself stronger than she had been before. As she continues to work with the government to hunt Neuros, Jane tries to uncover the cause of her own transformation and what, if any, connection she shares with the very people she is pursuing.

In her dual role as co-executive-producer, Loken also oversees a lot of the day-to-day creative issues while she's on set. "It's been double duty," she said. "It really has been a whole extra job, because lots of questions come to me, and I'm really one of the creative producers on set all the time. So a lot of story points come up or set design things or [whatever]. I don't know, ... you just try to stay present and do as much as you can."

Loken, who also starred in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, is no stranger to action roles, nor to SCI FI Channel, having appeared in last year's miniseries Dark Kingdom. She said that she has always been attracted to films that exploit her strong physique. "I think it's just a physical awareness," she said." A lot of people seem to be kind of disconnected from their bodies. I mean, I just have the physique. It just lends itself, so I think it was something I wanted to embrace. ... If you find something you're good at and maybe not many people can do it, then by God, go for it."

Still, Loken has found that shooting a regular weekly action series is a far different experience from the action films she's done. "It's grueling," she said. "We've started our fourth [episode]. The wonderful thing is you have more time to make an [arc] of a character and explore the character, which is a luxury you don't have with film. It is grueling, though. It's a grueling schedule, for sure." Painkiller Jane premieres in April on SCI FI. —Cindy White