Superman Returns star Kate Bosworth
wanted to enjoy being young and free. Fortunately, she just
happened to be shooting a movie in the perfect place to do
that: Sydney.
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel
comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure
Superman
Returns … While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once
and for all, Superman (Brandon Routh) faces the heartbreaking
realization that the woman he loves,
Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), has
moved on with her life.
Or has she?
Sorry, Superman, but Lois did move on with her life. But not with a
rival superhero; she was having an affair with a city named
Sydney.
It began with a 14-hour plane ride to a universe far away. The
passenger: young actress
Kate Bosworth, who had won the plum role
of playing Lois Lane in
Superman Returns, the eagerly
anticipated latest installment in the Superman franchise. Bosworth
knew that the movie was going to be filmed in
Sydney, Australia,
before she even landed the part, and, she says, the location was
part of the allure. For Bosworth, who was born in Los Angeles,
moved to
Connecticut with her parents when she was nine and to
Cohasset,
Massachusetts, at 14, Sydney was as foreign as Krypton,
Superman's birthplace - and that made it all the better. "I'd never
been to
Australia, and I don't think I'd ever been so far from
home," she says, calling from her home base in L.A. "I went by
myself, and it was a fantastic time for me."
Just like that, she was Down Under, "landing in a completely
different world." A young woman named Jacqui showed Bosworth her
hometown. "She greeted me when I came off the airplane, and she was
working on the film as well," says Bosworth. "She is indicative of
the Australian personality, just so friendly and sweet and
down-to-earth."
Her mission? To facilitate Bosworth's on- and off-hours adventures.
Which were what, exactly? I ask.
"Off-hours?" she asks, always the professional, Lois before Kate,
the actress before the party girl.
"Yes, when you were off work?" I say.