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Yay! After bemoaning the lack of Lokinator news I just came across a new Painkiller Jane article.
Kristanna Loken: From `Terminator' to `Painkiller'
By Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT)
PASADENA, Calif. - When Arnold Schwarzenegger was looking for a beautiful woman who could beat the stuffing out of him, he chose Kristanna Loken. Loken was the unstoppable robotic menace, T-X, in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," a gorgeous specimen that could only be created in the lab.
Not so, it turns out. Loken is as perfect in person as she was battling Schwarzenegger, and those flashing fists, gymnastic gyrations and perfect proportions are being drafted again for the Sci-Fi Channel's series, "Painkiller Jane," premiering April 13.
Based on a comic book character, Painkiller Jane experiences pain, but discovers she commands miraculous recuperative powers. Injuries are followed by even greater prowess.
It's a perfect match for Loken who grew up an energetic tomboy with braces on an organic fruit farm in upper state New York. "I was very outgoing and loving ... so I was definitely a farm girl, loved to climb trees and sit and eat cherries and ride horses ... I always loved to be barefoot and outdoors," she says, stretching her long legs in front of her as she leans back on a couch in her hotel cottage here.
Loken has studied dance since she was 4, bulked up for "T3," but never forgot that acting was her real goal.
"I always wanted to act since I was little tiny girl," says Loken, 27, who's dressed in tight black pants and a black blouse with blue stripes. The daughter of a former actor-writer and a successful fashion model, Loken's parents understood her precocious passion and supported her efforts, even when it meant her leaving home at 16 to strike out on her own in Los Angeles.
"They had given me a really good all-over background leading up to a career that I guess even then - I don't know if they knew, but I knew - that I was going to pursue. So when I started working professionally just knowing choreography has really been beneficial with fight sequences and stuff because the fight is essentially choreographed like dance moves."
Growing up with a high fashion model for a mother had its effects, says Loken. "Mom had me at the end of her career, she was 37 and she had my sister at the beginning of her career when she was 21. So my sister really got the brunt of it. She was very active in the modeling world, I think my sister always felt she had to measure up. We called her OPM, Oh Perfect Mother - the handbag that matched the shoes, always with full makeup and looking flawless, even the way she would sit because she did finishing school and the whole bit. My sister and I were kind of anti. In some ways my sister and I wanted to be different."
Loken tried modeling but didn't like it. "That's why I never pursued it because it was kind of vacuous and ungratifying work and you're giving to an inanimate object and you're not receiving anything. And the people were soooo superficial. I liked the travel aspects, but I started acting first, and that was always my thing that I wanted to pursue."
Her first job came when, as a teenager, she played Meg Ryan's daughter on "As the World Turns." Ryan was no longer on the show but Loken played her "speed age" daughter. "Then I had an audition for a job in New York that was going to be filming in L.A. and went to L.A. to audition for the job and ended up moving to L.A." She wasn't entirely alone. She had a boyfriend and for a year rented a house with two friends.
Later she and her boyfriend bought a house together, but she bought him out when the relationship ended. Loken now owns three homes: a beach house in Cape Town, South Africa, a home in Los Angeles and one in Vancouver, where the 22 episodes of "Painkiller Jane" is filmed.
After the excitement and afterglow of "Terminator 3," she was at a loss, she says. "I didn't know what to expect ... I was given a lot of opportunities in big budget studio things and frankly I just couldn't invest in the scripts. I thought, `For once I'm finally at a place where I don't have to take just ANY job.' She did some independent films and produced her own projects.
In fact, Loken is co-executive producer on "Painkiller Jane." It's a job that requires considerable responsibility. "I'm really the only creative producer on set so I'm the go-to person for everything. It's a lot," she sighs.
Having braved the big city at 16 and the ups and downs of show business, there's little left to intimidate her. But Loken admits, "Failure scares me. I don't want to fail, so it keeps you fired up. I also fear not living up to expectations. I really want to do my best. I try not to pressure myself too much but I always wanted to do my best."
Self-disciplined, Loken has been meditating since she was 18. When the role calls for it, she assiduously tunes her body like an instrument. But even there, she favors moderation.
"I had a hamburger and cookie for lunch," she says. "But don't do anything to extremes. You can't. You're on TV you've got to be conscious about the way you look but also just doing a physical show, keeping your energy up. The awareness I got during `T3' and the kind of nutrition regime I'd done, you always have an awareness. It's implanted into you. You also have muscle memory because I changed my body so much during that film and put on so much muscle mass that it's easy for it to come back. I go on my work diet when I'm working which is very healthy and proper food at the right times. But if it's holidays or I'm having time off - I eat what I want."
*dreamy sigh*
It so totally needs to be April 13th already (even though Global TV likes to frak with me and won't play the pilot episode until April 21st! Frak you Global, frak you and yo mamma because I have my ways, I will see the pilot by April 14th, if I have to cut someone!)
(thinks back to article) *"I was definitely a farm girl, loved to climb trees and sit and eat cherries and ride horses ... I always loved to be barefoot and outdoors..."*
*dreamy sigh*
April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th, April 13th!
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I thought the little Sci-Fi site said April 13th, did I miss something?
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You're right, it's April 13th, it even says so in the article.
*facepalms again*
*goes to edit idiotic mistake*
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