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" The U.S. has come a long way in the last decade. Same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 states. Medical marijuana is legal (with a &amp;quot;note from your doctor&amp;quot;) in 23 states. But if there&amp;#039;s one thing we still have no tolerance for, it&amp;#039;s lady nipples. Even worse if those nipples belong to a French seductress like Eva Green, ass-kicking star of blockbusters like Casino Royale and 300: Rise of an Empire. A poster for her new film, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For \u2014 in theaters August 22 \u2014 was banned by the MPAA for, in their words, the &amp;quot;curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.&amp;quot; And then a commercial slated to air on ABC was pulled for more or less the same reason. Too much Eva Green nipplage. Green recently said that boobs &amp;quot;have never killed anyone&amp;quot; (though she did add that suffocation is a possibility). I called up Green recently, and she talked quite a bit more about the controversy \u2014 and about her obsession with stuffed dead animals.  ESQUIRE.COM: I have a lot to ask you about Sin City, but we should probably start by talking about taxidermy. EVA GREEN: I&amp;#039;m sorry? ESQ: I heard that you&amp;#039;re a repeat customer at Deyrolle in Paris, the taxidermy shop. EG:[Laughs.] Oh yes, yes, that&amp;#039;s right. ESQ: I was there decades ago, when I was doing the backpacking-across-Europe thing. The place is insane. EG: It&amp;#039;s a very beautiful shop. It&amp;#039;s like being in a fairy tale or something. ESQ: I still see that spiral staircase in my dreams. EG: Me too, me too. [Laughs.] ESQ: Are you more of a Deyrolle window shopper, or do you spend serious money on taxidermy? EG: Well, I have a bit of a problem. I haven&amp;#039;t visited them in a while, because it can be dangerous. I walk in and see a stuffed head and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Oh, it&amp;#039;s calling to me. It wants to go home with me.&amp;quot; ESQ: Sweet Moses. EG: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s got such sad eyes. It would be happier with me.&amp;quot; ESQ: That is simultaneously the best and the creepiest thing I&amp;#039;ve ever heard.  EG: Deyrolle is a dangerous place for me. I make some bad decisions when I&amp;#039;m there.  ESQ: How close have you come to buying a rhino? Be honest! EG: A rhino? I would love one.  ESQ: No you wouldn&amp;#039;t. EG: That&amp;#039;s a spectacular idea actually. ESQ: I was joking. EG: But I&amp;#039;m quite serious. I think it&amp;#039;d be lovely to own a taxidermy rhino. Don&amp;#039;t tempt me. The last thing I bought was a marabou bird. I don&amp;#039;t know if you&amp;#039;re familiar, but it&amp;#039;s kind of a weird-looking but beautiful vulture or something.  ESQ: Isn&amp;#039;t it a stork? EG: It might be, but it looks like a vulture. It&amp;#039;s quite large, it&amp;#039;s almost five feet tall. And I believe it&amp;#039;s called an &amp;quot;undertaker bird&amp;quot; for some reason. ESQ: What else is in your personal collection? I&amp;#039;ve heard you have a few insects and skulls. EG: Some of that, but mostly birds. I love peacocks actually. I&amp;#039;ve got an albino peacock, which is completely white, and a normal peacock, so they look like a beautiful couple. I&amp;#039;ve got an auroch, which is like an ancestor of the bull. ESQ: You&amp;#039;ve got a whole bull? EG: No, no, just the head. That&amp;#039;s more than enough. [Laughs.] It&amp;#039;s really special. I also have lots of birds and owls and stuff. ESQ: Do you keep them in a special room? Some place where they won&amp;#039;t freak out guests? EG: [Laughs.] Yes, that is an issue. ESQ: You have a dinner party and there&amp;#039;s a dead rhino standing there. It&amp;#039;s bound to make people uncomfortable. EG: Well, I keep most of them in my living room. I don&amp;#039;t really hide anything. It&amp;#039;s like a zoo in my house. ESQ: A dead zoo. EG: Yes, I suppose so. A dead zoo. [Laughs.] ESQ: I have no idea how you&amp;#039;ve gotten this reputation for being dark and gothic. EG: See, I don&amp;#039;t consider any of this to be morbid or anything. It&amp;#039;s just... it&amp;#039;s really hard to explain. I don&amp;#039;t know. [Laughs.] It&amp;#039;s hard. ESQ: Vanessa, your character on the series Penny Dreadful, also has a thing for taxidermy. EG: Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. ESQ: Was that just a wonderful coincidence? Or did you show up on the set and go, &amp;quot;Happy day?&amp;quot; EG: It was a pure coincidence. But I wasn&amp;#039;t disappointed, obviously. ESQ: Was there anything among the taxidermied animals that you took home? EG: This is kind of funny. Remember the monkey that Peter was working on? ESQ: Oh yeah. The one Vanessa told him to name, because all stuffed animals should have names? EG: Right, right. [Penny Dreadful creator] John Logan gave it to me. It just looked like such a sad little monkey. And he said, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s for you. Take that weird, sad little monkey home.&amp;quot; ESQ: And you did? EG: Of course! He&amp;#039;s in my home in London. ESQ: Vanessa said something about putting mirrors behind the glass eyes of her dead animals. That&amp;#039;s not how it works in actual taxidermy, is it? EG: I don&amp;#039;t think so. I should ask John Logan. But I don&amp;#039;t believe it is, no. None of mine have mirror eyes. ESQ: Good. Now I can sleep. EG: Maybe I&amp;#039;ll get mirror eyes for my rhino. ESQ: You&amp;#039;re seriously considering getting a taxidermy rhino? EG: Yes, definitely. It&amp;#039;s a good idea. I&amp;#039;m not kidding. ESQ: Where would it go in your house? The kitchen or the dining room or the master bedroom? EG: I&amp;#039;m not sure. A rhino isn&amp;#039;t a small creature. I need more room than I have now. I might need to buy a castle before I invest in any rhinos. Or I could just remove my bull, my auroch, and put the rhino in that room instead. ESQ: Some actresses obsess over where to put their award statues. You&amp;#039;re more concerned with taxidermy placement. EG: Well, awards take up a lot less space than a rhino. ESQ: We should talk about Sin City. This is far from your first green-screen movie. Does it get easier? After big action films like 300: Rise of an Empire, are you accustomed to the unreality? EG: This one was greener than ever in some weird ways. We had no furniture, no walls, no windows. Robert [Rodriguez] and Frank [Miller] were very faithful to the comic book, and they used it as a storyboard. So I knew what it would look like in the end. But that means we were doing scenes with nothing but your acting partner. That&amp;#039;s all there was in front of you. ESQ: Did you try to visualize what the world around you looked like? EG: No, I didn&amp;#039;t bother with that. It&amp;#039;s really just about the other actor. You have to focus on them. To know that there&amp;#039;s a wall on your right and a clock to your left, that doesn&amp;#039;t make any difference. In some ways, it&amp;#039;s like theater. You&amp;#039;re not thinking about the props onstage. All of your energy and focus goes into the other actors. That&amp;#039;s all that&amp;#039;s carrying you through. ESQ: Have you watched the new Sin City with an audience yet? EG: No. I&amp;#039;m seeing the film tonight for the first time, with people. [Moans.] ESQ: You don&amp;#039;t seem all that enthusiastic. EG: I hate it. I try to procrastinate as long as I can, until I absolutely have to see it. It&amp;#039;s no reflection on the film, it&amp;#039;s just me. I don&amp;#039;t watch anything I&amp;#039;m in. Not even on set. I won&amp;#039;t go over to the monitor to watch what we&amp;#039;ve just shot. It&amp;#039;s too terrible. I think I&amp;#039;m just very self-conscious.  &amp;quot;Nipples aren&amp;#039;t killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There&amp;#039;s so much violence in the world right now. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.&amp;quot; ESQ: Are you sick of talking about Nipplegate yet?  EG: Nipplegate? ESQ: The movie poster and ABC commercial that have been banned because of your nipples. EG: [Laughs.] Is that what they&amp;#039;re calling it? Nipplegate? ESQ: I don&amp;#039;t think so. I&amp;#039;m pretty sure Janet Jackson still has dibs. I just can&amp;#039;t think of a non-stupid way to bring it up. EG: It really is insane. With the poster, I don&amp;#039;t really understand what it was all about. You don&amp;#039;t see much, do you? It&amp;#039;s only suggested. It&amp;#039;s not full on at all. And then there&amp;#039;s the trailer, which is just a lot of shadows, so again you don&amp;#039;t see anything. The whole thing is just confounding and weird and stupid. ESQ: It&amp;#039;s fascinating because you&amp;#039;ve come full circle. Your first film, The Dreamers, came out about a decade ago, and it had its own nipple controversy. EG: That&amp;#039;s right, I&amp;#039;d forgotten about that. ESQ: But that was probably more to do with the whole sibling incest thing than the boobs. EG: Well yeah, that had something to do with it. It was a very different film than Sin City. With The Dreamers, it was young kids expressing themselves, and discovering their sexuality. And this is more... ESQ: It&amp;#039;s pulp noir. EG: Yeah. But it&amp;#039;s not vulgar. That&amp;#039;s what I don&amp;#039;t get about it. It&amp;#039;s not depicted as realistic. It&amp;#039;s art. It&amp;#039;s like when you go to a museum, and there&amp;#039;s a painting of a naked woman. It&amp;#039;s not raw sex. It&amp;#039;s an artistic rendering. ESQ: And if the poster freaks people out, wait &amp;#039;til they see the movie. EG: I know, right? They should take it as a warning. The poster&amp;#039;s incredibly tame by comparison. They&amp;#039;ll have a heart attack when they see the film. ESQ: Why is the United States still so terrified of women&amp;#039;s nipples? What&amp;#039;s wrong with us? As an outsider, do you have any perspective? EG: I honestly have no clue. It&amp;#039;s kind of bizarre. I think they should be more worried about weapons. Maybe spend more time on that problem. ESQ: Nipples aren&amp;#039;t killing children.  EG: Exactly. Nipples aren&amp;#039;t killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There&amp;#039;s so much violence in the world right now. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples. ESQ: I read somewhere that while shooting your sex scene in 300, you ended up with a lot of bruises. EG: Oh yeah. ESQ: I&amp;#039;m afraid to ask. Bruises where? Like, on what... body part? EG: It was mostly on my back. I bruise very easily, so it wasn&amp;#039;t a big deal. ESQ: Did you get any sex bruises while working on Sin City? EG: Not really. I didn&amp;#039;t move much in this film, weirdly. It was an easy shoot. The last time I got bruises from acting was on Penny Dreadful. There&amp;#039;s an episode where my character is possessed, and I&amp;#039;m thrashing about and getting really banged up. I was totally covered in bruises after that. Like, everywhere. ESQ: Did that make it awkward to go out in public? EG: Well, it&amp;#039;s funny, because after that shoot I had to fly out immediately to do two days of press junkets to promote 300. And I had to wear very conservative clothes because the makeup artist was like, &amp;quot;These bruises are insane. I can&amp;#039;t possibly cover these.&amp;quot; ESQ: How conservative? EG: There was one junket where I had this shirt with big, frilly, ruffley things on the wrists and neck. It was just because I was covered in bruises. It&amp;#039;s quite funny. That one episode of TV was so much more physical and violent and bruise-inducing than 300 or anything else. ESQ: Do you prefer doing your own stunts? EG: No. If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don&amp;#039;t want to die just for a movie. It&amp;#039;s not worth it. They&amp;#039;ve got CGI. They&amp;#039;ve got professional stunt people. There are ways of doing it without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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