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Who Weekly
(Australia)
3 November 1997
The producers of Xena Warrior Princess wanted the high-kick!
the cult series to be a blonde. But the show's
star, New Zealander Lucy Lawless, whose locks are naturally ash-blonde,
talked them out of it. "I said, 'She should be like an Amazon—rounded and
buxom and dark,' " says Lawless, 29, whose mental picture of Xena resembled
Argentine tennis pro Gabriela Sabatini. After dying her hair black and
adding extensions, the opera-trained actress (who has just finished playing
teen vamp Rizzo in the Broadway production of Grease) took on the Amazon
look with ease. She's a statuesque 1.78m, says Xena's costume designer Ngila
Dickson, "with magnificent shoulders, beautiful arms, lovely cleavage and a
beautiful face". Playing such a feisty woman required some extra
body-buffing—weight-lifting and boxing provided that until Lawless fractured
her pelvis in a horseriding accident as she taped a stunt for The Tonight
Show in the US last year. Since then, the divorced mother of Daisy, 9 (her
fiance is Xena executive producer Rob Tapert), has taken up 50-minute
swimming sessions and hour-long walks carrying 1.5kg handweights. "Exercise
frees you up not to worry about the next day," explains Lawless, whose
freezer is stocked with meat pies and whose favourite dish is spicy lamb
curry, "and I can eat what I want!"
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