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Over the past decade, Newton has worked with one famous director after another: Bertolucci, Ivory, Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) and Jonathan Demme (Beloved). Her co-stars have ranged from Nolte in Jefferson ("F______ funny. What a toilet mouth," she says, again citing a quality she obviously admires in her leading men) to the late rapper Tupac Shakur in Gridlock'd ("I was rude to him. 'What's that tattoo?' I'd ask. We had a flirty-rude relationship...
Burned at age 17 on her first go-round in Hollywood, following her debut in the 1990 Australian film Flirting (her co-star was Nicole Kidman, before she became Mrs. Tom Cruise), Newton returned home to Britain to study social anthropology at Cambridge and then went on to do small art-house films with directors like James Ivory (Jefferson in Paris) and Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged). Now, at 27, she's back in Hollywood, with a meaty role opposite the movies' biggest box-office star in this season's surefire action thriller. Make that romantic thriller, because from the minute Newton...
Everything is gloriously choreographed in Woo's trademark fast-action, slo-mo moves, including a motorcycle joust, a car tango and a heart-stopping Cruise duet with a mountain. (He did most of his own stunts. And Newton did, well, some of hers.) "Yes, it's fun! It's understandable!" says Newton, speaking in exclamation marks as she gently pokes fun at the first M:I. "And it's uncontroversial!" she adds with relief...
...Newton originally studied to be a dancer and got her first job acting--as an African diplomat's daughter in Flirting--by accident. Sidelined by injury, she was looking to waste a day in London when, as it happened, auditions for the part were being held. Her only formal acting training to this day remains some boarding-school drama classes. She is an instinctive actress. Demme remembers bursting out laughing with pleasure when she came up with the croaking voice for the title character Beloved, the ghostly daughter who returns to haunt the mother who killed her. "The voice...
...Newton and her husband, British screenwriter Oliver Parker, are expecting their first baby in September and awaiting the release of an independent film they worked on together called It Was an Accident. It's about a guy just out of prison who must meet three conditions (stay clean, get a job and pass an AIDS test) before he can win back his childhood sweetheart, Newton. As for the rest, Newton, who grew up in what she says was a largely colorblind atmosphere, is philosophical about her chances in Hollywood. "I am both Zimbabwean and English. I'm from nowhere...