No matter what crap she went through, she always had that great red lipstick. Were they fixing that constantly?

Well yes. And I also have a machine gun leg, so let's go with suspension of disbelief.

Was the missing reel scene really shot?

No. Which one? In Quentin's, not the sex scene, no.

Oh, okay.

Ah-ha, sucker!

The horror genre was kind of dead until Scream came along.

Yeah.

And now it's culminated in this. What is it like being part of the bookends?

Yeah, it was very funny, because when I did Scream, it was my second movie. And I adore Wes Craven, and I still see him from time to time. And I just love him. He's so gentle and so brilliant. But it was funny because, again, not liking horror films, I had to reference these other directors in there. I had no clue who I was talking about. Like really no clue. I said, "Oh, it's like a John Carpenter film." I didn't know I was combining two names and being funny. Hey, that got a laugh, I wonder why? [laughs] No clue. I have really bad nightmares in general, like every single night. So I try not to add to the stock of things in my head.

So you didn't really watch grindhouse movies...?

I did, actually.

...growing up?

Oh, no, not growing up, certainly not, no. I lived in a commune. We had no TV or films or anything. But Quentin did screen a bunch for us before we started the movie. At least for most people, the Planet Terror cast, and then by the time the other part of his cast put in, he was like, "Oh, screw it, let's go see Borat." But what I thought was fantastic about these guys is the homage. And I've had people say, "Oh, are they trying to make bad movies?" No. Because first of all, they're not bad movies. And it's these two brilliant directors. Real mavericks, except for they're within the Hollywood system. And because they're so at the top of their game, they can do anything they want, really. I mean, they could sit and shoot paintballs at a wall for three hours and it would get released. That's just how they are. But what they did love about these other directors was that these were the outcasts. These were not studio system people. And because they were outcasts, they could do anything. They could kill a kid, kill a dog, break all the sacred rules of filmmaking. All the things you really do not ever do. And what's fantastic is that they're now getting to do it within the studio system. They actually, I know, had a dinner with a whole bunch of these directors last night, of these old kind of grindhouse films. They're all older now, and the guys, I think, all those old directors, were so excited that they were getting to do it. It was like, "Yeah! Doing it for team now!" Doing it on a grand level.

What came first for you, Planet Terror or Death Proof?

Planet Terror. And then Death Proof after. Yeah, I had about a week break between the two. I was very tired.

What was it like working with Kurt Russell in the car?

Ah, Kurt, Kurt, Kurt. Bastard! [laughs] No, I actually love Kurt. I told him he should really get on thinking about adopting me. I'm just saying. I know I'd have a lot of houses. I'd be rich! [laughs] But I thought it was quite funny because I think Kate Hudson has that kind of same long blonde hair that I had in the movie. Or at least very similar. And I just thought, "When you kill me, you need to think about this: you are killing your daughter." And he's like, "Aw, you're evil!" And I said, "Uh-huh. Just planting the seed. Just think it over." [laughs] So what was cool is that...It was 130-page script, Quentin's. So it had to be really condensed, because that's a two-hour movie. So it's almost like I get to play two different roles, because he had to truncate his so much to fit into the double feature that I kind of played a character of the girl who's going into the woods that everybody's yelling at, "Don't go in the woods, dummy! What are you doing you, you dumbass? You're going to get...God, there she goes. What an idiot!" That's the same thing with getting into this car, like, "What are you doing?" But in the longer version that will be on DVD and internationally released, it's a completely different situation. You completely see why I get in the car, and we have a lot more scenes together. And his character development is a lot broader because of those scenes as well, because all those scenes are primarily with me.

Any chance we'll see you in Sin City 2?

[smiles coyly]

We'll take that as a yes.

I don't know. I like smiling.

Your character is the break-out icon character. Are you ready for her to be plastered everywhere?

You know what I'm really excited about because I still see Scream masks trick or treating at my door? I'm like, "There better [be] machine gun legs." And I also really, really want it to be a drag outfit, because I think the drag queens...They'll love, love, love that. I'll be the new Judy Garland, except for with guns.

How was she firing that gun?

A flex in her thigh muscles. It's a secret.

Thanks.

Bye guys, have a great day.