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The suckiest part about Day Break getting cancelled is we don't get to look at Moon Bloodgood and Victoria Pratt every week anymore. It was also a pretty cool show, but no use crying over spilled milk. We'll surely see these babes in many more projects to come. Bloodgood already has another movie coming out, and you may also remember her as the bundled up hottie in Eight Below.

 

CraveOnline: You're part Korean, Irish and Dutch. Do you feel closer to your Korean or European heritage?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Korean. I was raised on my Korean side. My mom's from South Korea and I was raised [here]. I feel American first and foremost but I definitely feel like I'm also Korean.

 

CraveOnline: What traditions do you still practice?

 

Moon Bloodgood: For instance, all the time, when I go visit my mom, she makes me a meal and I sit on the floor because we have a table that's this high off the ground. And she serves me food because that's customary. We sit and eat. We still take our shoes off. I eat Korean food about four times a week, me and my fiancé go all the time.

 

CraveOnline: Do you cook it?

 

Moon Bloodgood: I can cook it a little bit, yeah. I'm learning more and I bought a Korean cookbook, but I'm really into my heritage. I've been to Korea and I embrace it. We grew up very, very Korean, sleeping on the floor, and like this Sunday we're going to a family thing where you celebrate your grandmother's death. That's the day you celebrate. That's this Sunday so I'm very involved with that.

 

CraveOnline: How often do you get back?

 

Moon Bloodgood: I only went once but it was a great trip. My family was living there. My aunt and uncle had a restaurant and I went shopping, used the subways, walked around Seoul. It was great. They live there. And then I went to a Korean bathhouse. They didn't even have a shower in their house. I used a bathhouse. Isn't that great?

 

CraveOnline: How'd you like taking a public bath?

 

Moon Bloodgood: I don't mind and I still go to the Korean spa in Koreatown. I don't mind it.

 

CraveOnline: Was it a full nude bath?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Full nude but the women, they give you body scrubs, they're wearing bra and underwear so it's like they're all used to it. And all my cousins go to the guy one when they're in Koreatown.

 

CraveOnline: So what is life in LA like for you?

 

Moon Bloodgood: I think people think it's more exciting than it is. It's a very normal life for me. Yeah, we go out but cook dinners. I just love working, I love just being outdoors and being in the sun. I think people think LA is something that it's really not. [There are moments] of it like right now but a lot of us are just like everybody else. Yes, there's some glamour but there's also a flip side to that.

 

CraveOnline: What's a great night at home for you?

 

Moon Bloodgood: For me, we call it Slumber Party Night. I can publicly say that. We rent movies and eat junk food and just get in our comfy clothes and watch TV and hang out.

 

CraveOnline: Are there certain kind of movies?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Anything, scary, he's obsessed with UFC, I'm obsessed with So You Think You Can Dance. He likes to rent the comedies and we get to eat junk food. And we just get to sit around and play games, whatever. We're just like total goofballs.

 

CraveOnline: Do you have to hit the gym extra hard after those nights?

 

Moon Bloodgood: You know I really don't. I don't have a weight problem. I eat what I want. But sometimes I feel like I need to do that just for cardiovascular, so I feel better. And just to keep everything toned, but no, I just ate a bunch of fried food. I love to eat.

 

CraveOnline: With your film career taking off, was it a hard decision to take a series?

 

Moon Bloodgood: It wasn't a hard decision but it was definitely a decision that was thought out, because I did Eight Below and I did Pathfinder and I had a deal with Touchstone. I had originally, I was supposed to do a pilot for them and they allowed me to go do Eight Below so I felt a loyalty to Touchstone and ABC. They kind of believed in me. I don't regret it now because I think it's great. Movies are movies but I also like being home in LA and having a consistent job. I think ABC's the best network in town right now.

 

CraveOnline: What's your character in Pathfinder?

 

Moon Bloodgood: My name is Starfire and I work with an actor named Karl Urban. It's sort of this epic movie that at this point I believe it's rated R. It's Vikings versus Native Americans 500 years before Christopher Columbus ever found North America. It's got a horror feeling to it. There is a love story, there is a coming of age story but it's going to be, you know it's Marcus Nispel, so it's going to have some thrills in it.

 

CraveOnline: Do you get to kick some ass?

 

Moon Bloodgood: I do. I get to have a bow and arrow. I get to punch a Viking. I get to take a skull and hit him in the crotch. I got hurt. I had bruises. I had cuts. I have two scars on my hand. It was very physical. It was all outdoors in Vancouver. It was raining every day. It's one of the most physical times in my life.

 

CraveOnline: What kind of costume do you wear?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Oh, I got so tired of it. This really loose leather thing I had to wear, very Native American, very loose around my body but not sexy at all. They didn't want me to look sexy at all.

 

CraveOnline: How could they make you not look sexy?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Believe me, I don't look sexy in this movie. I've got two braids and I don't look sexy.

 

CraveOnline: Is that fun to get grunged up?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Yeah, like I never had to worry if I was overweight because I was so covered up. Like in Eight Below I was so covered up, I never had to suck in my stomach. I would hate to do a bikini, like in Day Break I'm in my lingerie at some points. I'm like, "Oh God, I don't know if I want to do that." I like that. I like having the focus on my work rather than what I look like. Who does it?

 

CraveOnline: Isn't it odd that being Korean you can pass for Native American?

 

Moon Bloodgood: Yeah, I mean, there's some theory that maybe I have Native American in my background but I was raised on my Korean side. Yeah, a lot of people think I am Native American and I never play Korean just so you know. Everything I go out for is Inuit or Hawaiian or Asian, never Korean. I don't look my heritage. So even if I want to play Korean, they would never cast me. That's the sad irony about it.

 

 

Victoria Pratt was used to playing kick ass chicks before Day Break. She was a babe fighter in Cleopatra 2525 and a pseudo X-woman in Mutant X. You know you watched both shows at 3AM in syndication. Hopefully she'll keep kicking ass because there's just something about a tough chick…

 

CraveOnline: Why do people see you as a tough girl?

 

Victoria Pratt: You know what? I would say it's my arms but I went into this audition in three layers of clothing, not showing an inch of skin. I think you're either a tough woman or your not and I think I have that sensibility about me, so I think that people can buy me as a cop.

 

CraveOnline: Has it changed over the past 10 years or so that people find tough women sexier now?

 

Victoria Pratt: I think maybe that the general perception is changing. I've always found it interesting and appealing because one of my iconic characters is Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. I remember seeing her when I was a young girl, thinking, "That's what women should look like." That's what I wanted to be. But I was always an athlete. I liked the fact that she was strong and she had muscles and she was just irreverent. I think the rest of the world, not everyone, but I think a lot more people are starting to think that that's a possibility.

 

CraveOnline: How much action do they let you do on these shows?

 

Victoria Pratt: I will do a lot of my own action. The only stuff that production will not let you do is stuff that can disfigure. Like jumping through glass or fire, stuff like that, you're not allowed to do for insurance reasons. On Mutant X, after my decelerator jump which was many stories high, I was only insured to three stories, so there's a certain amount of insurance that they're willing to take on.

 

CraveOnline: I spoke to you for Mutant X a while back and you were remodeling your house. Is it finished?

 

Victoria Pratt: All the construction is done. We kind of turned it into a big old bar. I love it. It's the entertaining house. But I don't think anybody's house is ever done. If your house is done, then it's time to move. There's always stuff I want to do.

 

CraveOnline: Tell us about this bar.

 

Victoria Pratt: This house was fantastic. It had a great vibe but I tore down all the walls from the living room and the hallway and everything, and I built a great big bar that seated 20+ people. Just drew it out of craft paper on the floor and had the construction guys come in and just mimic the shape and add concrete and pour in one day the entire bar and counter all in one piece. That's huge. And then tequila is one of my passions. I love to collect it. It's delicious and beautiful, like every bottle's a piece of art. So I've probably got maybe close to 90 bottles in my collection right now so I've got a great big tequila bar in my house.

 

CraveOnline: What's your specialty?

 

Victoria Pratt: For all the Americans out there who want a very good cocktail, it's called the Caesar. You get it in Canada, it's Vodka, Clamato juice, Worcester and tobasco with a celery salt rim. It's like a Bloody Mary on steroids.

 

CraveOnline: But for tequila, have you ever done a shot followed by a shot of tomato juice? They do that in Mexico.

 

Victoria Pratt: I'm going to do that. I might use Clamato juice though and I might have to name it after you. The Fred. But it has to be Mexican, The Frederico.

 

CraveOnline: So it's just one length of bar?

 

Victoria Pratt: It's curved. It's an indoor/outdoor bar because a couple years ago, a lot of my friends smoked so I wanted to have a place where they could be indoor/outdoor. Now none of them do but it's still nice to have.

 

CraveOnline: How often do you entertain?

 

Victoria Pratt: A lot. It depends. It depends on everybody's work schedules and stuff like that. It used to be once a week. Now it's maybe every two or three weeks. People get busy. People have kids. A lot of my friends are having kids. You can't have terrorists in your pool. I'm just kidding. I've got terrorists coming over tomorrow. The children. It's a pet name for my niece. She's six years old, she's got red hair and she's karma for my sister who destroyed everything in the house when she was a child, so everybody thinks she's got her comeuppance.

 

CraveOnline: Are you still recognized from Mutant X?

 

Victoria Pratt: Yeah. And not necessarily from people who you think would be recognizing you. A 50-year-old woman will pull you aside in the store and go, "I loved your show. Is it coming back?" It's fun. It's nice. You get a lot of letters. Shalimar was a very strong character for women so it's nice that a lot of women found her as something they aspired to or something they admired. Yeah, you get recognized but I guess I'm always kind of surprised because I'm just me. I'm just me doing my day. You don't necessarily think anyone's going to come up and go, "Hey, I know you."