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Stuff Magazine 1/07: Victoria Pratt
Arresting Beauty
On the police mind-bender Day Break, Taye Diggs keeps reliving the same day with Victoria Pratt. Lucky bastard.
Gorgeous Victoria Pratt plays Andrea Battle, a mysterious cop who might or might not have had something to do with her partner being wrongfully arrested for murder, on ABC’s Day Break. This former fitness model was tight-lipped on her character’s intentions, but even if we had to trick her, we were hell-bent on finding out the truth.
STUFF: On Day Break, Taye Diggs’ character has to live the same day over and over again. What would be your ideal recurring day?
VICTORIA: Even though I have the best job in the world, I don’t think it would be work-related. It would be a vacation day with lots of sun and tequila and friends.
Q: Tequila? So you’re not one of those people who’s had a bad experience with it and can’t go back?
A: People get drunk on really, really bad tequila, which is like rubbing alcohol, but good tequila is fantastic. It’s like drinking a cognac or a really nice scotch.
Q: You know what else is fantastic? Beef. Tell us about growing up in a town known for its beef production.
A: [Laughs] You’ve done your home-work! I grew up in Bruce County in Ontario, Canada. There’s a 12-foot-tall acrylic cow statue, named Bruce the Cow, at the entrance to our town. It was a very wholesome place to grow up—with lots of beef.
Q: Can you put into words the joys of working with Meat Loaf in Blacktop? What did you call him?
A: Everyone called him Meat. Like, “Hey, Meat!” [Laughs] I did a film with Sticky Fingaz. I don’t know why, but I had to call him Mr. Fingaz. It just sounded dirty. He would laugh. Everyone called him Sticky.
Q: You played a cross-eyed pity date in The Mallory Effect. Did you really cross your eyes the whole time?
A: Yeah. I would practice. I did an entire dinner party like that—which really hurts by the way—so I figured I was good to go. Then I realized that I had done all of my practicing sitting down. It’s a whole different ball game when you’re walking, because your eyes are constantly trying to refocus. It was hard being a cross-eyed pity f*** in a movie!
Q: Pity f***? We thought it was a pity date.
A: Nope. Now you really want to see the movie, don’t you?
Q: What’s the most extreme thing you’ve ever done?
A: It’s hard to tell. I did a stunt where I jumped 10 stories off a roof onto the top of an SUV, and that was really freaky. They yank you up to the top of this building, and you’re thinking, Am I on crack? Why did I agree to this? But it worked out.
Q: Speaking of working out, you used to be a bodybuilder. Do you have a favorite body part?
A: I really like my stomach.
Q: What’s your favorite way to work out?
A: Everyone talks about a runner’s high, but the whole time that I ran track, I maybe had it twice. I didn’t get a true high until I started kickboxing, because it’s so aggressive and exhausting. And when you’re breaking in a pair of gloves, and you go to the grocery store and your knuckles are just a little bit bloody, they look at you like maybe you’ve just killed someone. That is so cool.
Q: How long do you think it would take you to beat the crap out of one of our readers?
A: It would depend on if I was taking him by surprise. If he were reading this article and I snuck up on him, I could totally take him out in two seconds flat. But I’d probably just give him a wedgie rather than actually lay a beating on him.
Q: Do you ever think that you’re tougher than you are?
A: That is a problem. I would do these action shows where I’d play a superhero. I think you can get into trouble taking it too seriously!
Q: On which show did you feel the most like a superhero?
A: Mutant X. Now I feel like a cop. I carry a gun—it’s all good.
Q: Your producers said you couldn’t reveal any secrets of the show, but screw the suits: Are you a bad cop or a good cop?
A: You don’t know.
Q: Dammit!
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