Kate Beckinsale wants unlikeable roles
Kate Beckinsale Instead, the English beauty has emphasised that her ambition when taking on a role is to ensure that the character possesses “human” qualities in contrast to having cinema audiences instantly like them.
The 38-year-old actress said: “I’m not attracted to characters who are instantly likeable, nor am I that interested in making them likeable.
“My goal is to make them real, to find what makes them human and empathetic, to trace a certain logic that explains why a character is how she is.”
Beckinsale also recognised that her role as Selene in 2003 action-vampire film Underworld resulted in her being more disposed to moving away from her comfort zone, personally and professionally.
She added: “Underworld forced me out of my head, and I really needed that done. Now I can put myself through things I find horrifying and emotional and know I will survive.”
While receiving almost unanimous critical praise for the majority of her film roles, Beckinsale reckons that she has still to produce her best work.
She chatted with Manhattan Magazine about her goals, saying: “Really, I’m a late bloomer. My best work is to come.”
