MDC: The story of your uhm...experiences... in the first class cabin of an international flight is now legendary. Do any of those escapades show up in Femme Fatale?
Rie: My character is kind of the catalyst for the entire plot and the way it unfolds. Brian got to keep a very racy scene that opens the movie. Some people felt that originally the scene was not... realistic but the episode you hint at made Brian realize women could be strong and adventurous and daring. I took a meeting with Brian and Rebecca. Our reading had great chemistry and at the end Brian said "Please come do my movie." I was honored to do it.

MDC: Your film background is more about being behind the camera than as a trained actress. How did you navigate your way around acting?
Rie: Well you see, movies are our generation's folklore. It's our pop culture, our reference point. I don't want it to sound arrogant but I felt that my passion and love for the movies gave me enough guidance as to how I would present a character by mixing elements of different actresses and performances that inspired me. It's actresses like Sigourney Weaver who was so strong and amazing in Alien and at the same time so feminine and fragile in something like The Year Of Living Dangerously. It's Faye Dunaway, who is so completely a woman in her films. Her eyes are so...she has very sorrowful eyes. The things you learn from her face in Chinatown....

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