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" Published in the August 2011 issue 1. I just randomly tackle people in the streets when it suits me. 2. When I met with the director of Captain America [out July 22], I hadn&amp;#039;t seen the script, and I had to go meet him, and we spoke for like an hour. With a lot of those big films, they&amp;#039;ll do that instead of an audition \u2014 and I prefer them, because I love a chat. I&amp;#039;ve found the messier the meeting gets, the more successful. You vomit on someone&amp;#039;s shirt, it&amp;#039;s probably going to work in your favor. Because you shared something: an intimate moment of drunken behavior. 3. When Chris Evans first took his shirt off on the set of Captain America, I just instinctively grabbed his man boob. They kept it in the film. So we did a couple of takes of me being really inappropriate with my hand on his pec for the duration of the scene.  4. I was wearing Spanx. A big old pair of Spanx. Really hot. 5. I&amp;#039;d been wanting to do an &amp;quot;action&amp;quot; film and of course I get cast in an action film set in the forties. [Note: Her oeuvre is mostly period films: Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008), and last year&amp;#039;s Starz miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, which earned her her first Golden Globe nomination. In Captain America, she plays a British military agent.]  6. I&amp;#039;ll say to Team Atwell, &amp;quot;What is this project about?&amp;quot; And they&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;quot;Okay, look, it&amp;#039;s not a great script, but it&amp;#039;ll give you exposure,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s three months in the Caribbean.&amp;quot; In which case I would probably say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll do it.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s a legitimate reason to take a job. I once spent four months in Africa shooting The Prisoner [a 2009 AMC miniseries also starring Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel]. What else could I do on the planet that allows me to go there for all that time?  7. The Prisoner was a complete joke. I mean, with all due respect, it was like, &amp;quot;What the hell is going on?&amp;quot; Pretty much as soon as we got out to Namibia, they fired the director, so we took two weeks off and ended up going on a safari. We saw the big five animals. Well, four. There were no hippos. Hippos love water. This was a very dry place.  8. Yes, my dad&amp;#039;s a shaman. But he&amp;#039;s not like, &amp;quot;Hi, I&amp;#039;m the shaman, thank you.&amp;quot; He doesn&amp;#039;t walk around in a loincloth or live in a tent or anything like that. But he does vision quests and sweat lodges \u2014 I almost died in one of those things. It was so hot. And you sit like this [she spreads her legs]. Most people were naked. I was in a bikini. It was gross. Really gross.  9. Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It&amp;#039;s quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You&amp;#039;d be surprised.   10. I&amp;#039;m not a name.They can get me really cheap. So I&amp;#039;m gonna make it up in the minibar bill. Or just pads of paper from the hotels that I&amp;#039;d been in. My grandfather was a war baby in England. And because of food rationing, he overcompensates now by hoarding food \u2014 he&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;I came back from the supermarket, and all of this was on special offer. So I bought it.&amp;quot; I think that&amp;#039;s where I get it from. With the hotel minibar, I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;I think I need that. Yeah, that&amp;#039;s brilliant. I think I need that.&amp;quot; 11. I took a robe from Shutters in L. A. It&amp;#039;s a really nice one.  12. Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven&amp;#039;t done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.  13. When actors get a bad name for diva behavior \u2014 I&amp;#039;ve never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.  14. I&amp;#039;d never had a dog before. They get periods. Did you know that? When I first got her, I thought, My dog&amp;#039;s dying! I remember going to the vet and just turning Thandi around and saying, &amp;quot;What the hell is that?&amp;quot; 15. Tommy Lee Jones [who plays an American military officer in Captain America] is really scary. Because he&amp;#039;ll take his time answering a question. It feels like he&amp;#039;s ignored you. He does it long enough for you to feel completely humiliated. I said hello to him and then there was a long pause and then he said, &amp;quot;Do you like opera?&amp;quot; He&amp;#039;s got a very, very dry sense of humor.  16. Next up is possibly a Jimi Hendrix biopic \u2014 an independent film with Andre 3000 from OutKast playing Jimi Hendrix. But I don&amp;#039;t know, really. The Atwell team is like, Let&amp;#039;s just wait and see... I love how I call them Team Atwell because each of them works with fifty other people as well. Sometimes they forget who I am. I was on the phone with a member of Team Atwell once, and we chatted for like half an hour and he said, &amp;quot;I really loved you in that film.&amp;quot; And I said, &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t in that film.&amp;quot; Team Atwell doesn&amp;#039;t even know who Hayley Atwell is.  17. I&amp;#039;ll be a wreck when [Captain America] premieres. I&amp;#039;m gonna grow a beard.  VIDEO: Many More Women We Love &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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