Kristanna
Loken, the
26-year-old actress who had her break-out role
in 2003's Terminator 3 and currently stars in the film
BloodRayne,
publicly discusses for the first time in the March issue of Curve
magazine that she's had--and will continue to have--relationships
with women.
"I
have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say
that the relationships I have had with certain women have been
much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than of those
with certain men," she tells Curve. "I connect with
an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens
to be a female, that’s just the way it is. That’s
what makes my wheels turn.”
In the Curve interview, Loken also talks about her lesbian sister,
who has been with her partner for more than a decade, and the
indie film Loken is currently executive producing and starring
in, Lime Salted Love, which she described to MTV as "similar
to Reality Bites with a splash of Memento like
disjointed narrative."
This
isn't the first time Loken has talked about same-sex
attraction--the topic has come up frequently in interviews ever
since she was caught on camera kissing pop singer Pink
in 2003. But she has always approached the subject with some ambiguity,
as she did last month in an interview with men's magazine FHM.
When
asked about the difference between kissing men vs. women, Loken
replied candidly, "The texture of a woman’s mouth and
lips are so much softer than a man’s. It’s more romantic,
but there are women who can be rough". But when asked if
she "kisses a lot of women", Loken hedged, saying "I
don’t like to make anything a habit, but I’m definitely
open-minded about kissing women."
In
the same interview, Loken also talked about the weeks she spent
in Romania filming BloodRayne, which co-stars Michelle
Rodriguez (Lost) and is written by out lesbian Guinevere
Turner (The L Word, Go Fish). "I partied with
Michelle Rodriguez," Loken told FHM. "We’d hang
out, drink a lot of crappy vodka and hit the clubs. One of them
had a pool inside it. We would go, get really drunk and end up
swimming in it by the end of the night."
When
asked by FHM, "did you make out with Michelle?", Loken
would only answer, "I plead the fifth on that."
Loken
was born on a farm in upstate New York, and began her
acting career in New York City at 13 when she landed a role on
As the World Turns. She eventually made her way to Los
Angeles, where she did some modeling to pay the bills while she
took roles in little-known movies and TV shows, like Academy
Boyz and Mortal Kombat: Conquest, that never quite
panned out.
Loken
attributes some of her early struggles in acting to her unusual
height (she's 5'11") and her athleticism. "I think when
I was younger, people didn't quite know how to cast me,"
Loken told JoBlo.com
earlier this month. "I've always been tall and physically
fit. I'm an equestrian and very outdoors-y. So when Terminator
3 came along, I thought I could transcend all the things
that had maybe been physically detrimental and turn them into
attributes."
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