Kate Beckinsale thinks she looks horrible.

The 35-year-old British actress – who recently played an unglamorous journalist in “Nothing But the Truth” – has warned fans she looks nothing like her usual beautiful self in her next movie “Whiteout.”

She said: “I play a federal marshal chasing a fugitive in the Antarctic and I get horribly injured and disfigured. If you think I look bad in prison in ‘Nothing But the Truth,’ wait until you see me in this one!”

Kate recently revealed that during the filming of “Nothing But the Truth” she refused to wear protective clothing because she thought it might hamper her performance.

She said: “I’m always doing movies where I’m getting beaten up, thrown down stairs, hit with blunt objects and even set on fire. I pulled off the scenes with just a few bumps and bruises.”

Upcoming thriller “Whiteout” is due to be released at the end of the year.

Kate Beckinsale has a ”family with two dads.”

The actress, who is married to director Len Wiseman, says her nine-year-old daughter Lily – her child with former boyfriend Michael Sheen – is comfortable with their unconventional arrangements and describes it as “a modern dream come true.”

She explained: “We’re a family with two dads. Somehow it all works out. Lily walks around the house going, ‘Daddy!’ and several people say, ‘Yes?’ It’s kind of funny. ‘No, not you, the other one!’”

Kate, who split from actor Michael in 2003, also revealed her daughter doesn’t feel as though her parents are separated – because she remains so close to the “Frost/Nixon” star.

Kate, 35, added to Self magazine: “Last week, Lily was talking about a friend whose parents are divorced, saying, ‘Oh it’s so sad!’”

“And I said ‘Do you never feel like you’re from divorced parents? Because you are, even though Michael and I weren’t technically married.’”

“And she goes, ‘No! Divorced parents wait in the car outside and everyone is mean to each other, and it’s not like that with us.”

“Michael had a huge beard recently and I decided it would be fun if Lily got to shave it off. So we got Len’s clippers and shaved Michael. I’m sure that’s why Lily doesn’t feel like she has split parents.”

“Your stepfather helping to shave your dad isn’t something that necessarily happens in every household.”

Kate Beckinsale is heading to the Antarctic for her latest film role.

The British actress will appear as no-nonsense US Marshal Carrie Stetko in chilly thriller “Whiteout,” which sees Kate’s character on the trail of a killer at a South Pole research center.

A movie insider said: “Fans will see Kate play a real action hero, some of the stunts are breathtaking. The movie is going to be thrill-a-minute.”

The film, directed by Dominic Sena, is an adaptation of the 1998 comic book series by Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber.

Although the movie is set in the Antarctic, conditions were too cold to shoot on location so filming took place in Canada.

“Whiteout” is set to be released in September 2009.

Meanwhile, Beckinsale has claimed she didn’t need prosthetic make-up to look “old and haggard” for upcoming movie “Nothing But the Truth.”

The 35-year-old actress donned fake eyebags to show how tired her character was at the beginning of shooting, but began filming her scenes without them once her hectic schedule took its toll.

Kate, who plays a reporter trying to reveal the truth about a CIA agent, is quoted as saying: “I had some eye bags and slightly yellowy skin put on my make up for the prison scenes. But by the end of the movie I think I had it naturally!”

Kate Beckinsale could ”handle herself” in prison.The 35-year-old actress – who has played an inmate in many of her films – thinks she would have no trouble coping in jail.

She said: “It’s weird because I do feel like I have done more of my fair share of time.”

“I did the prison thing in ‘Brokedown Palace,’ I’ve done the Philippines prison.”

“Actually I think I could probably handle myself in a real prison – if I had something heavy to put in my sock!”

Kate’s father Richard starred in hit UK TV prison show “Porridge” and the actress believes she may have inherited his love of playing a villain.

She is quoted as saying: “My father’s television show back home in England was set entirely in a prison. There’s obviously a theme there.”

Kate recently revealed her nine-year-old daughter Lily would rather she work with “retro” stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford instead of Hollywood heartthrobs including Ben Affleck and Hugh Jackman.

Kate said: “Lily is really retro so she’s kind of like, ‘Oh I wish you could work with Joan Crawford or Janice Joplin.’”

“I’m like, ‘They’re dead now. I totally get it, but it’s probably not going to hap

Kate Beckinsale still hasn’t passed her driving test, despite trying for 18 years.

The “Nothing But the Truth” actress has vowed to conquer her fear of being behind the wheel, revealing her confidence was boosted after she recently mastered a golf cart.

She said: “I’m looking forward to knowing how to drive because I get those anxiety dreams where I’m suddenly in control of a car on the freeway.”

“I’m assuming those will go once I know how to drive. I drove a golf cart on holiday and did quite admirably with that. That’s a start.”

Earlier this year, the 35-year-old British beauty admitted she had failed the theory part of her driving test and was beginning to fear her young daughter Lily will get her license before she does.

Kate said: “I applied for my permit and then I failed the written test. It was, ‘How many units of alcohol are you permitted to have.’ I don’t know that.”

“My daughter is nine. Soon she will have passed her test, then she can drive me around. Or I’ll get one of those old persons’ motorized chairs.”

Kate Beckinsale didn’t need prosthetic make-up to look ”old and haggard” for new movie ”Nothing But the Truth.”

The 35-year-old actress donned fake eyebags to show how tired her character was at the beginning of shooting, but began filming her scenes without them once her hectic schedule took its toll.

Kate, who plays a reporter trying to reveal the truth about a CIA agent, is quoted as saying: “They put eye bags and stuff like that on, but it’s embarrassing. I did look like s**t.”

“I had some eye bags and slightly yellowy skin put on my make up for the prison scenes. But by the end of the movie I think I had it naturally!”

Kate recently revealed she has developed an understanding of the journalism industry after working on a US newspaper to prepare for her role in the thriller.

She said: “We are slightly sort of under the ‘us and them’ thing. It’s a little like enemy lines – but when I was there I found it was amazingly similar to acting. It was quite nice to go, ‘I kind of get it more than I thought I would.’”

Kate Beckinsale’s nine-year-old daughter wants her to work with Marilyn Monroe.

The 35-year-old actress admits Lily, her child with ex-boyfriend Michael Sheen, would rather she teamed up with “retro” stars such as Marilyn and Joan Crawford instead of Hollywood heartthrobs including Ben Affleck and Hugh Jackman.

Kate is quoted as saying: “Lily is really retro so she’s kind of like, ‘Oh I wish you could work with Joan Crawford or Janice Joplin’. I’m like, ‘They’re dead now. I totally get it, but it’s probably not going to happen.’”

“She’s into Marilyn Monroe and John Lennon and all these people. I really don’t think I’m going to get to work with them!”

Earlier this year, Kate revealed Lily refuses to watch her movies, no matter how much she tries to convince her otherwise.

Kate, who is married to director Len Wiseman, said: “She won’t watch any of them, not any!”

“We tried it actually – we were on holiday and ‘Van Helsing’ was on pay-per-view and Lily was like, ‘No, no, no!’ She likes ‘Some Like It Hot’ – that’s her favorite movie.”

Kate Beckinsale was terrified about moving to Los Angeles.he 34-year-old actress, who left the UK six years ago, feared her typically English rose looks would hamper her chances of making it in Hollywood and she would be forced to have a boob job.

She said: “I was very frightened of Los Angeles at first. I thought the first thing that would happen is they are going to file my teeth down, inflate my bosom and just be mean to me – and that’s sort of what has happened.”

Kate, who is married to director Len Wiseman and has a nine-year-old daughter Lily from a previous relationship, admits she is surprised by how happy she is living in the US.

The “Underworld” star added: “I would never have envisaged myself marrying an American, living in America and sending my child to an American school.”

Kate recently revealed she and Lily love teasing Len about his American accent and force him to eat traditional British food.

She said: “I don’t understand how anyone has any fun if they’re married to someone from their own culture because we have an amount of ridiculous fun teasing each other.”

“We gang up on him with our English accents, and make him eat Marmite and things.”

British actress Kate Beckinsale has laughed off reports that she is in rivalry with Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker, saying the latter is too “tiny” to be her competitor.

Beckinsale has spent a lot of time with Longoria after she moved to Los Angeles, leading to speculation that they became friends to help further each others’ careers.

Beckinsale says she doesn’t consider Longoria a rival because they are not the same size and so they never have to compete for the same roles.

“How could Eva and I be up for the same parts? She’s tiny and I’m fascinated by little people. Having said that, I feel like a giant. I’ve always felt a clunky girl. I could ski home on my feet,” says the actress.

Kate Beckinsale says she is a terrible cook because she is so good at sex.

The actress – who is married to director Len Wiseman – loves having people over for dinner, but admits she is terrible in the kitchen.

She said: “I’m the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can’t be good at food and sex, but you can always order the food in.”

“I would rather he didn’t order in the sex!”

The “Underworld” actress also explained her recent comments that her genitals are her best asset.

She explained to Britain’s Glamour magazine: “I just thought it would be arrogant to say my chin or my eyes.”

“I’m a very bad celebrity. I can’t be enigmatic so I said the first thing which popped into my head, which was my vagina.”

“Well, I didn’t actually come out and say it, but I hinted. I’m allergic to that question.”

British actress Kate Beckinsale was so upset with her role in Snow Angels that she avoided her daughter on the set of the film.

Beckinsale plays a single mother having an affair with a married man, which leads to the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, contactmusic.com reported. The actress got so involved in the role that she avoided her daughter so that she would not see her mother so upset.

She said: “It was too intense. I didn’t want Lily to see me in that state—it exhausted me on a psychological level.”

Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale is excited on celebrating her fourth wedding anniversary this year.

The 34-year-old star believes that three years is a long time to be married in Hollywood and insists her marriage to Die Hard director Len Wiseman is still strong.

“Any more than three years is a really long time to be married here in Hollywood,” a website quoted her as saying.

“I feel like we`re oddly-weds rather than newlyweds, like we`re in our dotage or something.”

However, Becksinale admits that sometimes it`s tough having a moviemaker as a husband because of his hectic work schedule.

“He is really supportive. The only thing I hate about being married to a director is that he works so much and he`s away a lot, like when he was working on the Die Hard film for 900 years, and that`s lame,” she said.

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has joined the cast of “Sex and the City: The Movie,” which begins filming next week in New York.
Hudson will play the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, in the film based on the hit HBO comedy series.

In July, the show’s four leads, including Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, came aboard for the film after New Line Cinema agreed to finance and distribute it. Chris Noth also joined the cast to reprise his role as Mr. Big.
Michael Patrick King is writing and directing.

Hudson, who won an Oscar for her supporting role in “Dreamgirls,” recently completed production on the ensemble drama “Winged Creatures” starring Kate Beckinsale, Forrest Whitaker, Jackie Earle Haley and Dakota Fanning. Sony is distributing the film.

The former “American Idol” contestant is also in the studio working on her debut album for Arista Records, due for release in the first quarter of 2008.

Kate Beckinsale’s eight-year-old daughter plays ‘’spot who’s had Botox” on Los Angeles streets.

The 33-year-old British actress wants Lily exposed to the reality of plastic surgery at such a young age because she thinks women who undergo the cosmetic procedure look like “monsters.”

Kate told US Glamour magazine: “This is what’s sick about living in Los Angeles. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, ‘Look! That woman’s had too much Botox.’”

“She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from ‘Harry Potter.’”

The “Underworld” star – who gained 20 pounds to play Hollywood beauty Ava Gardner in “The Aviator” has also revealed the Hollywood ideal is an unachievable look.

She said: “I don’t think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed.”

“I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, ‘Why don’t I look like that now?’ It’s because I never have!”

Kate – who is married to director Len Wiseman – recently confessed she is obsessed with breasts because she would love a large bust herself.

She said: “I’m so fascinated by breasts because my mother didn’t have them either. “If I had them, I’d run up and down flights of stairs!”