"You know what?" Bosworth asks, after letting me ramble. "What was great about playing her: I'm blonde naturally, and so when I went into Fox Studios and went into those gates, that's kind of when I would focus on being that character." As Lois, she was dressed in handmade outfits from vintage fabrics, "a classic feel, more of a '30s vibe," she says. Thanks to a wig, her hair was brunette. "A great way to really feel like you're in character is when you have the costume and the wig and, you know, it feels like you're really becoming another person.

"But otherwise, it was really just me being Kate in Sydney."

As a blonde (yes, it's her natural hair color), she was anonymous.

"The people in Australia don't really care who you are, you know, in terms of celebrity," she says. "They honestly couldn't care less, which is very, very refreshing when you live somewhere like Los Angeles where it just seems so important to everybody. So to me, it was just refreshing to live in a city and to do a film that was so big in a place that people cared more about who you were as a person rather than what you did."

Channeling Jimmy Olsen, I can't give it up. This is a role actresses must've dog-fought over.

"So you weren't really thinking about Lois Lane when you were walking around Sydney?" I ask.

"Um, no, not really," she says. "I mean, I kind of save work for work, and then when I could have some time off, I tried to enjoy it for me."

THE WARDROBE FOR BEING KATE in Sydney took considerably more work - and shopping - to assemble.

"My favorite places to shop were an area called Paddington and a store called Scanlan & Theodore, one of the best fashion boutiques in Sydney," Bosworth says. "Personally, it's my taste in clothes. It can go either edgy - you know, great trousers and sweaters - or really beautiful and flirty in feminine dresses. Very flowy and cool. But that was one of my favorite stores and it's, you know, only in Australia. Another store that I loved, that is being more introduced to America and Europe, is a place called Tsubi. They have really good skinny jeans, and that's more kind of funky and cool, more of a London street vibe. There's another great jean store called Sass & Bide. That has great skinny jeans as well."