By George, She’s Got It!

I first noticed Aussie actress Melissa George in a short-lived 2001 American TV series called Thieves, which had her playing one of two professional purloiners (John Stamos portrayed her partner) who are caught and forced to work for the FBI in order to stay out of the slammer. (Yeah, I know, the premise is a blatant rip-off of Robert Wagner’s It Takes a Thief. Nonetheless, I found the light-spirited Thieves charming--even if not enough other viewers did.)

Since then, George has not only appeared on the small screen (in Friends, Alias, and Monk, as well as in an unsuccessful FOX pilot based on the movie L.A. Confidential), but also in the 2005 films Derailed and The Amityville Horror. And this week, she shows up in Turistas, “an action/horror mélange about a group of clueless tourists from America, Sweden, and Australia who travel off the beaten path during a trip to Brazil and end up in the crosshairs of a human organ smuggling operation.”

In an interview for Cinematical, writer Ryan Stewart sits down with the lovely Ms. George to discuss her present and future projects, her eye-catching taste in swimwear, her own traveling experiences, and her movie preferences (“I hate horror films, to be really honest.”).