Crave Online: Have you had any experience with the gay community?

Bai Ling: Yeah, I think coming to this country, I’ve encountered a couple of women who really, really pursued me to be their girlfriend. They’re truly lesbians. I am not but I went along with them for a few of the women, one in New York and also in Los Angeles, because I was just curious. They were just beautiful and loved me so dearly. I look at them, I think, “Why can’t I? Except they’re a woman.” But I experienced with them and I think it’s beautiful. For me, what I bring to this woman is gentleness when you’re in love with a woman, more sensitive, more subtle, more gentle, more romantic. With men, it’s more passionate to me. I think for me, falling in love and portraying somebody in love is not about gender. It’s about somebody invokes you, somebody makes your life shine with sunlight, makes your heart smile and makes you have this butterfly in your stomach. It’s this bubble of romance and you would do anything in the world. It’s just so beautiful. You live for that day. That feeling doesn’t really matter if it’s a woman or a man. I think if somebody can make you feel that, I think you’re lucky for no matter how short or a long time. I think it’s lucky for me, I act with a woman or a man, to me it’s the same. It’s how I feel.

Crave Online: It’s also important to show that on screen when we’re battling for gay marriage.

Bai Ling: It is too. Even marriage, all of these things are irrelevant to love. Society gives you something to do but you love somebody no matter if you can’t get married legally or not. You’re still there loving that person.

Crave Online: What do you play in Love Ranch?

Bai Ling: I’m very lucky and honored to be in that movie, to act with Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci because they are Academy Award winning actors. This movie actually I’m dying to see. It’s a true story about the first legal brothel in the United States, in Neveda in the ‘70s. You can imagine the ‘70s, all those prostitutes, all of us are like movie stars there. Actually I was very lucky to get this part because in the original script, there was actually no Asian character there. I auditioned with Taylor Hackford. This role was originally written for somebody blonde with big boobs, comes from Vegas like 20 years old and somebody stunningly sexy. She is the highest earner of the prostitute in the brothel. So I auditioned and eventually got that part. I was like wow. Her name is Samantha Smoke and has nothing to do with me, but I got that part so basically I’m the biggest movie star in that brothel and everybody depends on me. So there’s style and it’s totally different from all other parts. She’s very mysterious, very demure, very elegant, very unpredictable. She has this coldness but sexiness of mystery. And also when she seduces all the men, she’s so dear and so delightful, like a true sexy woman’s quality in her that I gave to her. Just somehow in that movie, because it’s such a prestigious project, I feel very lucky to play this highest earner prostitute, a very special character with Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci.

Crave Online: You must have loved the fashions of the ‘70s.

Bai Ling: I know, it’s funny. We have a lot of prostitutes there, extras or main ones. In real life, we’re like, “What are you wearing? What are you wearing? Why is she wearing that?” Kind of a cat fight because it’s unfair. She’s like, “Wow, why don’t I have this?” Each scene, we totally changed the appearance of every one of us. It’s so beautiful and so much fun for actors. For me, it’s like a different color, different stuff. I feel that I have to wear the most glamorous, expensive things because she’s the one earning the most money.

Crave Online: You have to look like the biggest star.

Bai Ling: I know. I feel like that. It’s totally different. Like the film that just came out, Crank II, you see me, I’m like crazy, from the hood, street. This is totally the opposite of the character, the persona I give in Love Ranch.

Crave Online: Is that a lead role with a lot of scenes?

Bai Ling: Yeah, because it’s one of the most important elements because it’s a story about a brothel, they have to portray prostitutes and they come through there so she’s there. She’s the most glamorous one I would think.

Crave Online: What do you play in Chain Letter?

Bai Ling: Chain Letter is more murder mystery and it’s about the letter. Somebody gets it, if you don’t follow it, somebody’s going to die. Basically, the director is a really big fan of my work and he’s very nice to me and he cast me in The Hustle, a comedy. So I played quite a funny, important part. After that, he said, “Bai Ling, I want you to come back just to help me.”

Crave Online: Is that going to be a big franchise?

Bai Ling: Yeah, I think it’s going to be. It fits in the contemporary culture.

Crave Online: Could the chain letter go on for more than one film?

Bai Ling: I think so because it’s a very young audience. If they connect to the letter, if it can keep going, the letter can lead you to mystery and magic and anything.

Crave Online: Do you get a cool death scene?

Bai Ling: No, not in that film. I didn’t get killed. We’re all panicked by the letter. All our screens show the letter, that means we’re all in trouble. Everybody’s panicked. It’s kind of interesting.