Leelee Sobieski developed such a huge crush on her 88 Minutes co-star Al Pacino, she asked her own father for advice. The 24-year-old didn't develop her attraction until she and Pacino - 43 years her senior - returned to the film's Vancouver, Canada set to reshoot scenes. 

She explains, "We went back for reshoots, and I started looking at him all of a sudden as this powerful, masculine, testosterone-filled iconic man. I went back to my trailer and called my father, who lives in France."

But her dad didn't provide any help.

Sobieski adds, "I said, 'Papa, Pacino is all of a sudden so sexy to me. There's an age difference, and I'm not comfortable with it.' But he said, 'No dear, this is a great thing, a beautiful thing. It gives me hope.'

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Why Leelee dresses like an old woman is beyond me. Maybe she wants people to think that she is Helen Hunt?  

It doesn't matter how many poses you do, the dress won't look good with any of it.

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Actress Leelee Sobieski has sparked rumors she is dating Legally Blonde actor Matthew Davis, after the pair was spotted together at a recent Los Angeles party.

The Eyes Wide Shut star - who has previously been linked to Josh Hartnett and Sean Lennon - was snapped enjoying an intimate clinch with Davis at a Hollywood Hills bash, prompting reports of their romantic involvement.

An eyewitness tells the New York Post's gossip column PageSix, "Matt had his hands all over her, touching her waist and rear end. It was very cute, and they definitely looked together."

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Leelee's dress should never leave the bedroom much less see the light of day! There is nothing sexy seeing her brassirere underneath see through lace. Disgusting.

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Leelee Sobieski

What book would you like to see brought to the bigscreen and what book do you hope never gets adapted?
I would both love to see “The Sound and the Fury” brought to the big screen and I would hate to see “The Sound and the Fury” adapted for the movies.

The last film I saw:
“L’Avventura,’ directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Three films that mean a lot to me:
“Cry-Baby,” directed by John Waters
“The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,” directed by Michael Curtiz
“2001:A Space Odyssey,” directed by Stanley Kubrick

Who do you think is the best actor in Hollywood at the moment? (male or female)
Meryl Streep (if there is such a thing)

Who do you think was the brightest star of the silver screen?
Bette Davis

If you could play any real-life person in a movie, who would it be and why?
Dakota Fanning because she gets all the good parts.

Ever feel that certain song lyrics were written with you in mind? What are they?:
“Where Are You Leelee Sobieski,”Nine Days

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This black strapless number would have been better without the knee high boots. If she's going to some costume party then she might need her white apron, cuffs and whips.

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As anyone knows who's seen celebrities up close, Hollywood is a land of little people. At nearly 5-foot-11, Leelee Sobieski is a beautiful freak in that place, and doesn't shy away from that fact.

Case in point, on the day of our interview during the Toronto International Film Fest, she shows up wearing heels — the better to look this 6-footer in the eye.

"I used to take Flamenco dancing when I was a little girl, so I'm comfortable in heels. I don't think a lot about height," she says.

And anyway, these pumps don't hold a candle to the stilettos she got to wear in Walk All Over Me, the goofy, S&M-themed Canadian caper movie in which she plays a smalltown prairie girl who moves to Vancouver to join her sister (Tricia Helfer) in the glamourous life of a dominatrix.

Put that assignment — with location shoots in Winnipeg and Vancouver — on the list of things she's done that make perfect sense to her, but no doubt drives agents and managers crazy. These include quitting acting to attend Brown University and taking a year off to "play housewife" to a now ex-boyfriend.

"That was a crazy experience, but I'm so happy I did that because it's important to spend time away from this business so that you're not empty onscreen."

Now, as if in a career mood-swing, Leelee Sobieski is working again … and working, and working, seemingly on whatever weird thing lands on her desk. "It's a nice movie," she says of Walk All Over Me. "I had no real reason to say yes to it, but Robert (Cuffley, the B.C. writer/director) really wanted me, like he just picked me. Sometimes in L.A., you get things sent to you and the feeling is they would pick you or any of 10 other people, and the first one that says yes gets the part."

"But I couldn't figure it out, because I'm nothing like Alberta (the girl she plays in the movie). This girl is from a small town and I was born in New York City, my dad's French and I've had a completely different upbringing. Then I realized, 'Hey, I'm an actress!' The script was charming and fresh and went in all these directions. I just had to eliminate every single bit of experience-based knowledge that I had in my life to become this naive troublemaker."

Walk All Over Me was "a great experience, with a great team, the kind of experience that makes me love my job. It was also part of a string of movies that required her to spend most of seven consecutive months in Vancouver. One of those films, The Wicker Man, received five "worst picture/actor" Razzie Award nominations, and another, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (due to be released next month), was by Uwe Boll, reputedly the world's worst director. Another Vancouver job, with a slightly better pedigree, was the Al Pacino crime thriller

88 Minutes, also due out next year.

"Sometimes you love this job so much, and sometimes you have an experience that's just okay," Sobieski says. "But you have this job that so many people would like to have and it's their dream, and you get to travel and have fun and learn and act, it's amazing. It comes with some negative things, but you turn them into positives."

Most recently, Sobieski was in Bulgaria, shooting the action-thriller Night Train with Danny Glover and Steve Zahn.

"I was staying in this weird little Mafia town outside Sofia, so I didn't see much of it. I just saw men with guns and stuff.

"The movie's a suspense kind of action-y thing with humour, dark and twisted. And I play a very mysterious character, the most mysterious character ever!" she enthuses.

"It's very cool!"

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If Leelee was trying to do a Victoria Beckham, she failed miserably. This is not how you wear all black Leelee. All black shouldn't be synonymous to scary. I think she should make Posh her BFF.

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Leelee Sobieski's new film, Walk All Over Me, is a sweet little movie about dominatrixes, stolen gang money, kinky sex and the chipped charm of Vancouver's underworld. Just in time for Christmas!

If only people would stop asking her if she's Helen Hunt's sister.

You're very funny in Walk All Over Me - a departure from your usual dark roles.

Yes, but I love comedy. It was a challenge for me to play somebody that is so naive. Since I was born in New York and I've been working since I was 11, it was not easy to play someone from a small town who is new to everything.

Naive would be hard, given that you're from a family of artists.

Ha! It was kind of difficult for me! But it's a nice way to look at the world, because you start to see things for the first time that you've seen many times before. After I finished the film, that positive energy stayed with me for two more films!

It's refreshing to see a film about sex workers that avoids moralizing.

I think everything is a case-by-case basis. I wouldn't want to generalize about that work, but in this film it seems totally cool. The dominatrix in the film is very choosy about her clientele, and for her it's not so heavy.

You often play heroines and tough women. Was it difficult for you to play vulnerable?

Do you think it was difficult for me to play vulnerable?

Maybe …

Did you think Alberta [her character in Walk All Over Me] was vulnerable?

Yes.

Is that a vulnerable question?

I … don't … know … any more

I like to show strong female characters, I find that exciting. And I think it takes an enormous amount of strength to show your vulnerability.

Walk All Over Me is set in Vancouver and is about prostitutes. The Pickton trial must have been in the back of your mind.

Sorry? [Lengthy discussion of Pickton case.] I had no idea about that! Oh my God! We weren't really talking about that. And it was public information at the time we filmed? Interesting. I was not aware of it, and I'm not sure if the director was aware, either.

Well, never mind. Was Kubrick the unholy terror he was reputed to be?

Oh my God, no! He was completely the opposite. I was 13½, and he couldn't have been more warm and sweet and inviting. The most open director ever. I worked on it for two months, but they worked on it for two years, and he sent my mother and me boxes of chocolates during the filming. He was even cuddly! I remember when I first met him, he had these warm chuckling eyes, the kind of eyes you'd want Santa Claus to have.

One doesn't hear "Santa Claus" and "Stanley Kubrick" in many sentences.

Ha! No! Well, you know, I was 13½.

After that film came out, you were on the cover of everything. Are you glad your, shall we say, Maxim days, are over?

Oh, I don't know about Maxim! I was never on the cover of Maxim. I think that maybe when there was that "sexy" emphasis, I was still under 18, so most of it was muted and tame. Maybe this is me being egotistical, but I don't think that I ever got attention other than for the reason I was doing a good job. When everything happened to me, I was not aware of it. I didn't realize it until much later.

You made a film with Catherine Deneuve. I would be terrified to even look at her.

She is very private, but once she realizes that you're okay, then she becomes very inviting and funky. She gave me my 19th birthday party, at an Indian restaurant in Montreal. My best friend, Anthony, who is an opera singer, was visiting me and she told him he had to sing for me. But the restaurant didn't have any sound equipment, so the owner went home and got his stereo and Anthony sang.

That is the power of Catherine Deneuve.

Yes - when she says sing, you sing. You have no choice!

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Leelee tries to be coordinated wearing green mary janes with her all green dress. But it's not really a dress to drool for but thanks for the effort Leelee.

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There's always a moment with other kids where it's like, "So you're an actress. Cry." I'm like, 'Fine,' and I cried. I think that made me feel good. But I definitely never had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, I can act." There was a moment in My First Mister where I said, 'Okay, that's acceptable. That can pass.' There's one particular moment where Albert Brooks is in the hospital and I thought, 'There's nothing I can do, me personally, better. I wouldn't change it if I could go back.'

Love in the Time of Cholera, which I just read. I think I read A Hundred Years of Solitude maybe two years too soon. I want to read it again. But I loved Love in the Time of Cholera, just loved it. I don't know. I was in the mood for that romance, I think. I was so happy in that place. I didn't want to leave.

It makes it a lot more fun. It doesn't necessarily make it easier. I have a much better time because I get to act a little bit more childish. Like with doing an interview for a particular magazine, depending on my mood, sometimes I'll be with someone 70 and I'll want to act like I'm three. But if I'm with someone that's 70, I'm going to want to enter their world. So if I'm with people who are 40 all the time I'm going to be in that energy, and a lot of times I'll like it better than someone of 18, 19, 20, or 24. I recently have not been feeling age at all with people. I think that's because actors don't grow up. They just don't, especially male actors. They stay children. It's one of the strangest things.

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Will Leelee be a great addition to those prison dancers from the Philippines? Or is she just trying to be a court jester in Michael Jackson's thriller jacket? Now, that is coordination to the max and that's bad news sister!

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Leelee Sobieski

"It can't be a bad thing that people think we look alike." (on her resemblance to Helen Hunt)

"If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love." 

"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."

"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked."

Awards

• Young Hollywood: Superstar of Tomorrow - Female, 2000
• Movieline Young Hollywood: Most Exciting New Face (female), A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, 1999
• YoungStar Awards: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Mini-Series/Made for TV Film, Joan Of Arc, 1999

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This time Leelee opted to go conservative and covered her "girls" (which she has been getting some exposure) in this all black long sleeved sheath. That's fine really, only if you a nun or running 60.

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Seems to have no shortage of film offers, Leelee Sobieski has reached deals to be the lead star of a thriller comedy entitled "Walk All Over Me", Variety has reported.

Here she is billed to portray a small-town Canadian cashier who gets caught up in the misadventures when she takes on her roommate's identity. Also included in the cast is Darcy Fehr with names like Tricia Helfer, Michael Eklund, and Jacob Tierney being attached to co-star.

Production is currently under way in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada under the direction of Robert Cuffley who is directing based on the script he himself penned. Kyle Irving, Colin Neale, and Carolyn McMaster are all executive producing for Chaos and Telefilm Canada with Marguerite Pigott and Tyson Caron serving as associate producers.  

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Leelee in gold halter gown looks like The Oscar's missing girlfriend. And I am not talking about the Grouch. But the one that celebrities would love to have in their living room for display. 

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