Both men and women who have seen the film seem to like it. It’s quite rare you get men admitting to liking a romcom isn’t it?
I hate the word romcom, it’s like no-one can let two people who are dating have their own names – everyone has to match it all together. I don’t like romantic comedies for that very reason, in that they’re never funny and thus not romantic, because you go halfway through the film, ‘this is stupid’ and then you don’t care.
This is just a good comedy. But I play the guy and that was a lot of fun. Really, if you think about it, I’m the guy role. That’s why I think men can identify.
A lot of guys have said you’re the kind of girl that guys like, not in a bimbo-type way. What do you think about that?
I want to be the bimbo, I want to be looked at as the bimbo, purely as a sexual object.
I’ve been working for that for a very long time, hence the reason I’m butt naked. I go, ‘Maybe this will cross me over’. Obviously it didn’t.
I need surgery. I’m getting some boobs. I think that’s my problem. All my brains are in my butt, they’re not in my chest.
Did you work out specifically for that naked scene
For every film I like to change my body if there’s a reason to. You gain weight or you get really thin. But this one, I just wanted her to look really good in suits. I wanted a certain hard-core tiny waist.
I have a butt, that’s what I was born with. Use what you got and build on that.
Yeah, you get on the treadmill a little longer. You’re very conscious of the fact that you’re going to be naked. Had it been a sex scene it would’ve been a whole different weird vibe but this was for comedy and for fun so you just didn’t eat junk until the last day of shooting the scene.
Do you allow yourself to binge after you’ve been really good?
I don’t believe in denying myself anything. If I can be good during the week, then for 24 hours on the weekend I can eat whatever I want.
I need that reward system or I will never stay on it. I like food too much. I’m pretty much a picker, I graze all day. Once you get that down, there’s a good balance in that.
What are your favourite things?
I like almost everything. I just love good food. I’ll be happy with a steak, or I’ll be happy with a great piece of fish. I love pastas and cheeses, the same as I love a nice glass of wine and a nice salad. I love good clean, hearty food. But a steak, and a great glass of wine, there’s nothing better than that – some homemade French Fries and a big bowl of ice-cream.
Because you’d been friends with [co-star] Ryan Reynolds for so long, was it easier to do the naked scene as a comedy moment?
I think. Being friends could’ve messed up our comedic timing. We could’ve not been friends after the naked scene, I could’ve been too awkward. We approach things the same way, we both panic when a scene’s not working, we both will work on the weekends and fix it.
Once you establish that kind of trust, doing a naked scene like that at the time we did the film, which was closer to the end of the film, was easier than had it been some sexy scene or done at the very beginning.
There was a lot of trust in that, I don’t know how it would’ve been with anybody else, but, thank god, I’ll never be doing that again.

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