Lynn Collins on coping with the macho men in X-Men Origins: Wolverine

From: coventrytelegraph.net
Written by: David Bentley

ONE person who hasn't featured hugely in the publicity for Hugh Jackman's X-Men Origins: Wolverine is actress Lynn Collins, who plays love interest Kayla Silverfox.

Texas-born Collins, 29, delivers a solid and heartfelt performance - and shows off her natural beauty - as Wolverine's lover, who is of native American heritage and may well have a hidden mutant ability of her own.

Collins, who entered New York's prestigious Juilliard School to study acting at 17, told GQ it had been a strange experience being among a virtually all-male cast.

She said: "I had to play off all the guys and their testosterone-heavy abilities. But I learned that the female powers of persuasion easily trump fangs and knives and guns."

Jackman had told MSNBC: "Lynn fills a role that was so vital to this movie. Anyone who knows acting and knows film structure, you'll know that what Lynn had to pull off in the film was probably one of the most difficult things to do. She did an amazing job and I was really, really proud of what she did."

Collins had earlier told of how the role allowed her to embrace her own native American roots.