RIE RASMUSSEN - RASMUSSEN DIRECTS

RASMUSSEN DIRECTS

Danish actress RIE RASMUSSEN is stepping behind the camera to direct her first movie. The actress - remembered by a generation of men for her role as Rebecca Romijn's lesbian lover in 2002 movie Femme Fatale - is making a movie about her adopted Vietnamese sister's struggle to be accepted in Denmark. But Rasmussen insists she won't use her looks to get ahead: "I could never play a woman in a bikini with an Uzi (gun) strapped to my back. "I prefer to take the starving artist approach: knocking down doors in order to pay for my own can of tuna fish."