Maclean's Magazine 4/17/00: Victoria Pratt, on Whoosh!
Victoria Pratt fights mutants for fun
From Maclean's Magazine (Canada), 4/17/2000, by Anthony Wilson-Smith with Shanda Deziel
Science-fiction babes draw huge followings: TV characters Xena the Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Agent Scully (The X-Files) all have cultish fans. Now, Chesley, Ont., actress Victoria Pratt is confronting such a world with her role as Sarge on Global's new sci-fi series Cleopatra 2525. "The Cleopatra cast went to a convention of Xena fans the day our show premiered," says Pratt, 29, "and people were already there in our costumes. That's dedication."
After appearing on two episodes of Xena, Warrior Princess, Pratt -- who has a kinesiology degree from York University in Toronto -- was offered a part on Cleopatra. The show's stirringly novel premise is that the title character went in for breast-enlargement surgery in 2025 and woke up 500 years later in the presence of two futuristic female warriors who, clothed in rubber outfits, battle mutants. Naturally, the newly augmented siren joins in. "We are three strong women taking on enemies of the future," says Pratt. "I don't think I could fight 20 mutants in chinos and button-down shirt. I have to be in my rubber pants."
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