Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
I found it difficult being objectified 24 hours a day, and that's not the nicest feeling. People dress you up, tell you where to stand and what to do you don't have any creative input.
I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
I'm not keen on spiders, but I like heights. I'd love to jump out of a plane, but not bungee-jumping. I imagine that would be painful because you have to go back up again.
In these little movies with no money and no time, you have to consolidate shots. All of a sudden, instead of doing close-ups, people end up in three shots. And if there's no room to go to one more angle, then sorry, we're going to have to skip that angle and just move on to the next thing.
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is.
The movies are hard work, but the cast is great and we have a lot of fun. Unfortunately Bryan Singer isn't doing this one he's busy making the new Superman film. It saddens me that he won't be on board because he did such an incredible job. He made great movies rather than silly popcorn flicks.
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
She is on the cover page of the following magazines: Veronica (Netherlands) Premiere (USA) NWA World Traveler (USA) B (USA) Glow (Canada) Glamour (USA) Cinema (Hungary) Cinema (Germany) SFX (UK) Maxim 2000 (USA) Entertainment Weekly (USA) Viasat Magazine (Sweden)
She appears in commercials for a charity network fighting against HIV.
Famke dyed her hair red for the first X-Men movie, but she chose to wear a wig in the second and third X-Men movies.
Famke has appeared in many major motion pictures. Some of them include... *Opposite Robert DeNiro and Dakota Fanning in Hide and Seek/, in 2005. *A telepathic mutant in the X-Men trilogy. *A starring role in a romantic comedy Love & Sex, in 2000. *A timid high school teacher in The Faculty. *A sophisticated book editor in Celebrity. *A Russian born owner of a gambling joint in Rounders. *A bitter alcoholic in The Gingerbread Man. *A woman who squashed potential seducers to death between her thighs in Goldeneye.
Famke's favorite authors are Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront?, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Rhys.
Before pursuing an acting career, Famke studied creative writing and literature at Columbia University.
Famke is 5' 11" tall.
In 2002, Famke was ranked number 69 in Askmen magazine's Most Desirable Woman.
Famke wears US size 11 shoes. The shoes she wore in the 1995 film, GoldenEye, were custom made.
Famke's first name means little girl in Frisian.
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