"Um," she says, pondering. "Just to have a good time."
The consummate professional. This was an important quest.
"I mean, for me, it was a time in my life where I was really
enjoying meeting new people and going out and having fun and really
feeling young, feeling my age," she says. "I was 22 when I was
there shooting this film, and there's a specific time in your life
when you go away, whether it's to college" - she was accepted at
Yale but deferred - "or abroad the first time. I've been to many
places in my life, but this is the first time where I felt like I
was very far away. I was very independent, so it was a time in my
life where I was really discovering myself and enjoying being on my
own."
You're only 22 once, Bosworth says, and she spent eight months of
that magical year in the most magical city on earth.
ONCE LANDED, Bosworth and her new best friend Jacqui headed
straight to lunch.
"The first place I went is one of my favorite restaurants in
Sydney. It's a little café on Crown Street, called Kawa. One of my
favorite things about
Sydney is the food. It's so delicious and so
clean. The fruits, the vegetables - everything just tastes so much
more fresh and alive. That particular café has some of the best
produce and juices and fresh-baked breads. I ended up going there
pretty much every day. It's just breakfast and lunch. It's at the
end of a row of vintage shops, and I love to shop vintage, so it
was really fun to stroll along and look into the windows or go into
the shops."
Since Bosworth was living in Sydney, she stayed in an apartment.
But that took some time to find, so, in the beginning, she stayed
in a hotel. "The Quay Grand Suites Sydney," she says. "That's right
on the harbor for those weeks when we did wardrobe fittings. The
first couple of days I lived in Sydney, my view overlooked the
Opera House and the
Sydney Harbour Bridge. If you look at a
postcard of Sydney, you see either one of those things. The Sydney
Harbour is wonderful, as well, because it's got lots of little
restaurants that go around the harbor. A lot of people commute by
boat from wherever they live. So it's a constant motion of people
going from one place to the next by boat."