Rhona Mitra recently did an interview with MediaBlvd Magazine to promote her role in the just releases Underworld 3: Rise of the lycans.

The film has received mostly positive reviews so far.  In my opinion it is precisely what the first 2 films should have been – a tooth and nail battle between werewolves and vampires, which contains a lot of the folklore from both legends.

Where the first 2 films both failed was the fact that as soon as a battle commences, people start pulling out Uzis/Tech 9s and the battle becomes the usual cliched gun fest.  If I wanted to see a gunfest I could go catch the latest diehard.  With the premise of vampires battling werewolves in place everyone wants to see real gritty battles between between the two races, not boring gunplay.   This is were Underworld 3 will really deliver, and with Rhona Mitra at the helm, it is very exciting.

From the interview:

MediaBlvd: How did you train and prepare physically for this role?

Rhona> I had done intensive training for Doomsday, and I’m already very athletic anyway. I do a lot of horse riding and rock climbing, so I’m already disposed, in that way. But, Doomsday really prepared me for this. I could pretty much put on my corset, my fangs and my eyes, and slip into the role pretty easily. The only thing I had to think about was how I would maneuver everything with the corset, the fangs and the eyes because that impairs your visibility and your function. Otherwise, I had two months in South Africa, before Doomsday, that was just me by myself with stuntmen going for it, so I can kick some ass.

Read the full interview