The star of Showgirls, Bound and High Rollers answers your questions on missing out on The Matrix, being a gay hero and swapping faces with her cat
Gina, you are a spectacular and artistically brave woman and movie star. How do you rationalise – and, hopefully, enjoy – the fact that your audiences often encounter you as a beacon of beauty, sexuality and eroticism? Geroellheimer
People can see me in whatever ways they want. As long as what I do brings them joy or helps them think about things, I don’t contemplate how they view me – it’s too abstract. When people share their opinions about me with me, I wonder who they’re talking about, but I go along with it to be polite.
How do you move on and decompress after playing such intense roles? mansurz
After Showgirls and Bound, I had so much residual energy that I ended up going to Greece, cut off some of my hair and released it into the sea. I thought: “This is very Greek.” There was a lot of energy that came with playing Donatella Versace. When I played Nancy Sinatra, I don’t want to say “I channelled her”, but I tapped into her energy. The next thing I knew, I had all these stomach ulcers. I asked her about it. She said: “I’ve had seven or eight of those.” I thought: “Oh my God, really?”
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