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Excerpt from Crave Online 1/4/07: Victoria Pratt
Day Break's Cancelled Babes
Canceled or not we talked to Moon Bloodgood and Victoria Pratt.
Posted: Thursday, January 4th 2007 05:01 PM PST
By Fred Topel, Contributing Writer
The suckiest part about Day Break getting cancelled is we don't get to look at Moon Bloodgood and Victoria Pratt every week anymore. It was also a pretty cool show, but no use crying over spilled milk. We'll surely see these babes in many more projects to come.
Victoria Pratt was used to playing kick ass chicks before Day Break. She was a babe fighter in Cleopatra 2525 and a pseudo X-woman in Mutant X. You know you watched both shows at 3AM in syndication. Hopefully she'll keep kicking ass because there's just something about a tough chick…
Crave Online: Why do people see you as a tough girl?
Victoria Pratt: You know what? I would say it's my arms but I went into this audition in three layers of clothing, not showing an inch of skin. I think you're either a tough woman or your not and I think I have that sensibility about me, so I think that people can buy me as a cop.
Crave Online: Has it changed over the past 10 years or so that people find tough women sexier now?
Victoria Pratt: I think maybe that the general perception is changing. I've always found it interesting and appealing because one of my iconic characters is Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. I remember seeing her when I was a young girl, thinking, "That's what women should look like." That's what I wanted to be. But I was always an athlete. I liked the fact that she was strong and she had muscles and she was just irreverent. I think the rest of the world, not everyone, but I think a lot more people are starting to think that that's a possibility.
Crave Online: How much action do they let you do on these shows?
Victoria Pratt: I will do a lot of my own action. The only stuff that production will not let you do is stuff that can disfigure. Like jumping through glass or fire, stuff like that, you're not allowed to do for insurance reasons. On Mutant X, after my decelerator jump which was many stories high, I was only insured to three stories, so there's a certain amount of insurance that they're willing to take on.
Crave Online: I spoke to you for Mutant X a while back and you were remodeling your house. Is it finished?
Victoria Pratt: All the construction is done. We kind of turned it into a big old bar. I love it. It's the entertaining house. But I don't think anybody's house is ever done. If your house is done, then it's time to move. There's always stuff I want to do.
Crave Online: Tell us about this bar.
Victoria Pratt: This house was fantastic. It had a great vibe but I tore down all the walls from the living room and the hallway and everything, and I built a great big bar that seated 20+ people. Just drew it out of craft paper on the floor and had the construction guys come in and just mimic the shape and add concrete and pour in one day the entire bar and counter all in one piece. That's huge. And then tequila is one of my passions. I love to collect it. It's delicious and beautiful, like every bottle's a piece of art. So I've probably got maybe close to 90 bottles in my collection right now so I've got a great big tequila bar in my house.
Crave Online: What's your specialty?
Victoria Pratt: For all the Americans out there who want a very good cocktail, it's called the Caesar. You get it in Canada, it's Vodka, Clamato juice, Worcester and tobasco with a celery salt rim. It's like a Bloody Mary on steroids.
Crave Online: But for tequila, have you ever done a shot followed by a shot of tomato juice? They do that in Mexico.
Victoria Pratt: I'm going to do that. I might use Clamato juice though and I might have to name it after you. The Fred. But it has to be Mexican, The Frederico.
Crave Online: So it's just one length of bar?
Victoria Pratt: It's curved. It's an indoor/outdoor bar because a couple years ago, a lot of my friends smoked so I wanted to have a place where they could be indoor/outdoor. Now none of them do but it's still nice to have.
Crave Online: How often do you entertain?
Victoria Pratt: A lot. It depends. It depends on everybody's work schedules and stuff like that. It used to be once a week. Now it's maybe every two or three weeks. People get busy. People have kids. A lot of my friends are having kids. You can't have terrorists in your pool. I'm just kidding. I've got terrorists coming over tomorrow. The children. It's a pet name for my niece. She's six years old, she's got red hair and she's karma for my sister who destroyed everything in the house when she was a child, so everybody thinks she's got her comeuppance.
Crave Online: Are you still recognized from Mutant X?
Victoria Pratt: Yeah. And not necessarily from people who you think would be recognizing you. A 50-year-old woman will pull you aside in the store and go, "I loved your show. Is it coming back?" It's fun. It's nice. You get a lot of letters. Shalimar was a very strong character for women so it's nice that a lot of women found her as something they aspired to or something they admired. Yeah, you get recognized but I guess I'm always kind of surprised because I'm just me. I'm just me doing my day. You don't necessarily think anyone's going to come up and go, "Hey, I know you."
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