That said, "The best meal to have in ­Australia is definitely in between, like a brunchy thing." For that, you can go to Bill's. "Famous for their eggs," she says. "I think they use cream, actually. It makes them really fluffy, and they are so good. And really thick slices of bread."

After breakfast or lunch (or brunch), Bosworth would walk some more. "If you want to go farther on the walk, you can go through - and it's going to sound crazy - a beautiful old cemetery on this big, high hill that goes straight to the ocean. And everything is white, really, the whole railing and all the stones and the crosses. It looks like a postcard.

"What's great about Sydney is, for exercise, it's really about doing it naturally," she continues. "Either long walks or surfing or swimming. It's such an outdoor environment, which I love because I can't stand being in the gym."

THOUGH SUPERMAN RETURNS is a Warner Bros. release, most days led Bosworth to the Fox Studios, with newcomer Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel, the venerable Kevin Spacey as the villainous Lex Luthor, and red-hot director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) running the show. Fox Studios, Bosworth says, is "where they shot the most recent Star Wars. Really large, grand productions, obviously. Big green screens. Huge high-ceiling studios."

It was nice, and better yet, convenient. "Because that studio is central to where everyone was living," she says. "It's really nice to be able to wake up and not have to, you know, commute for an hour, to have a quick trip there and be sort of close to home."

I ask her if there was a place where she got into character as Lois Lane. I mean, with all that attempting to unmask the Big Guy and falling into his arms as he leaps over buildings in a single bound, surely she didn't spring up from her water-surrounded bed in Full Lois Mode. Lois is the quintessential American, I say. So how could Kate channel her in Australia?