Let’s see if we can get Alice Eve to “happen”. It’s a tall order, I think, because Americans only really know her from Star Trek, and even though she’s had more film credits than we realize, she looks like about a dozen other well-known actresses. I think she looks like a mix of Amber Heard and Malin Akerman. For what it’s worth. I get the impression that Alice is more of a “name” in the UK, her home. And as such, when she’s giving interviews to the UK press, she can seem a little full of herself – read her full Telegraph interview if you want to say to yourself repeatedly, “Seriously? Is she THAT memorable?”
It is within the Telegraph interview that Alice briefly discussed how she got in shape for Star Trek Into Darkness, and now everyone is freaking out:
A week after the audition Alice Eve heard that she’d got the part – and promptly embarked on a diet consisting almost entirely of spinach, which she stayed on for the next five months.
‘The only thing I can reveal is that I haven’t eaten much apart from spinach for weeks. You’ve got to look as if you can hold your own on the Enterprise, and that means you’ve got to be in proper fighting shape.’
The shots of her in the film trailer wearing nothing but bra and pants seem sure to prompt an orgy of spinach consumption by women hoping to get into similar shape.
As well as curtailing her menu options, Eve’s part in Star Trek required her to stay put in a studio in Los Angeles throughout the shoot, which must be the longest she’d stayed in one place in years.
Usually she can be found shuttling frenetically between Los Angeles and London.
‘The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness,’ she says. ‘I’m not mad but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn’t it?’
I read variations of those quotes in several different places. If Alice actually SAID “I ate only spinach for five months” then I really wish they would just quote her directly. But from what I can see, The Telegraph seems to be saying it, not Alice. I don’t doubt that she did do some kind of extreme diet – most actresses do, especially if they know they’re going to be in their bra and panties on film. But I doubt Alice ate only spinach for five months straight. At least, I hope she didn’t.
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