Kim Kardashian's first acting role was a 'Disaster.' The reality show star plays three characters in the rushed-to-theatres Disaster Movie, which spoofs summer movies like Iron Man, Hancock and Wanted.
She and co-star Carmen Electra sat down with AP Entertainment at the recent Comic-Con convention in San Diego.
"Actually I've worked with (directors) Aaron and Jason a bunch of times, on Epic Movie, Date Movie, the very first Scary Movie and now Disaster Movie," Electra told AP Entertainment. "It's just fun. Fun to work with them and I was excited to actually get a chance to work with Kim. We had a lot of fun."
Kardashian agreed: "This was my first movie. And I'd just heard that Jason and Aaron are just the most amazing directors to work with. And they really were. They brought something out of me that I didn't think I really had at first, and totally built my confidence level in acting. I auditioned for the role and I got it, and was really excited to work with them. I play three different characters, I play a girl named Lisa who is just one of the main characters. And the movie is about a bunch of kids who are getting out of the city because all these natural disasters are happening."
The two women were eager to talk up their highlight of making the movie - a wrestling scene.
"Carmen and I have a big scene together where we spoof the WWE divas, and we have a big battle," Kardashian said.
Electra says the battle wasn't exactly fierce. "Well you know, we actually get along really well, so it was kind of weird, you know. But we had fun with it. We had choreography so we just got in the ring and just went for it. But you know, we would ask each other 'Are you OK?' after pulling each other's hair out."
Kardashian added: "She pulled my hair and she was like 'Are you OK?' And I'm like 'Yeah, I'm fine."
Electra said she got into the process by the end: "It was really fun. I don't know. I feel a second career in wrestling."
Among Electra's characters is a spoof of Angelina Jolie, but she doesn't feel like she's directly poking fun at the international superstar.
"I'm sort of spoofing Angelina Jolie in Wanted, or more so the character," Electra said. "But I don't know. I always feel weird. I would never want to personally spoof or make fun of anyone. If anything in these movies, I'm making fun of myself, and showing people that I have a good sense of humour about myself and my own image."
Kardashian said she took acting cues from Electra.
"Definitely I was watching her do some of her scenes. And I'm like she's so comfortable, OK, calm down. I was nervous at first but then just with everyone we were working with, they made it so comfortable and so easy that you just had to be natural. It was like a family working together. It was so much fun. I love it now. I went into it being really nervous thinking 'OK, I just have to get through this, it's my first movie. I really hope that I'm going to be on a new set. It's not like filming my show where it's just my family and who cares what we really do? There's a whole cast and crew of people that are depending on you to get your line right and to get everything right or you have to do it all over again because you messed up. But I did it. I remembered all my lines."
The two women said they enjoy doing movies more than the reality shows they've both appeared on.
"You can kind of get away with more I think in movies," Electra said. "You get to experience more things. Which is fun. In reality we probably wouldn't end up wrestling in a ring with no clothes."
Kardashian responded: "Unless we partied really hard the night before."
Directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Disaster Movie hits theatres in the New Zealand on 2 October .
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