Moviehole caught up with the beautiful Kate Beckinsale (“Underworld”, “Van Helsing”) to discuss her new film, the icy-thriller “Whiteout”.

Kate do you feel comfortable in these strong female roles?

I do feel, in the beginning of my career when I very first started, I was so young, that there had been Sigourney Weaver and then there was nobody else. When I was eighteen, nineteen years old, you didn’t read a script that had, you know, an action movie, a big commercial movie that had a central female character who wasn’t being rescued or saved and was actually, you know, driving the action. And I remember I used to be quite, sort of, like, “They should do that.” And now that they do, I feel really privileged. I’m one of the few people who gets to, you know, gets to do that. I do feel good about that.

Can you tell us about your character in “Whiteout”?

She’s somebody who was in the police force in Miami, and after her partner has betrayed her terribly, she loses a lot of confidence in her judgment of people and decides to take a job that’s completely far away from everything that she’s been involved in and isn’t very taxing. She’s not really expecting to see any real service. She’s going to file paper clips and do inventory, and that’s it. And then they find a body on the ice in sort of somewhat mysterious circumstances, and she has to step up and actually do her job. Yeah.

grew up in England and I know it can be cold there, but it’s nothing like in this movie was it?

No, but I really thought it was going to be like that. I thought, “Oh, all these American actors, and they’ve been growing up in LA, and I’ll show them how to deal with the cold.” And I couldn’t even get a word out the first day. I stepped out of the trailer, and my whole throat closed. Nothing like I’d ever experienced, ever.

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Our girl, Kate Beckinsale has been nominated for Best Cameo in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans at the 2009 Spike Scream Awards. Click the image below to head to the site to cast your vote!