VAMPIRES & SLAYERS: How do you prepare for this physically?
KATE: The thing is, you do these highly choreographed fight scenes, wire stuff and all that, but you don’t get bruises from that. Then you literally just run up to a door frame with a machine gun, and your whole leg is black and blue, you know? It’s never the impressive thing that gets you hurt. Or just tripping over — I fell over on the set of Total Recall because my shoes were slippy, so I was rushing out and just flew — you know, not very impressive. But all the stuff that should hurt you, they’re all over that. They protect you.
VAMPIRES & SLAYERS: With Len Weisman as the director, what is the difference working with him back on the original Underworld and, now, on Total Recall?
KATE: I would say he’s much more confident. I don’t think he really gets to talk to actors very much, and he was very grateful that on his first movie he got a bunch of very hard working English actors who were just brilliant. That really got him inspired, but I’m constantly impressed with just how many different things, as a director, that you have to hold in your head, yet he remains totally confident. I still haven’t completely figured out how to separate the husband from the director thing — I don’t know if you can, you just kind of stumble through it, but he’s never yelled once the whole time. As a director he’s never lost his temper; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in another movie, ever. So that’s the secret of his success.