She is beautiful, she kicks ass, she’s a fire-starter and she sleeps with a Demon, yep, were talking about Hellboy’s Liz Sherman.

Selma Blair sat down with a members of the press including the IESB last week to discuss her newest

IESB: Your character, Liz Sherman, makes a choice in the end of “Hellboy II” to save Hellboy — basically at the expense of humanity at some point in the future. What was your character’s thought process in those few seconds that she had to make that choice? How did your character actually come to say basically, “Screw the world, I want my boyfriend.” And would you, Selma Blair, make that same choice in real life?

SB: Yeah, the scene with the Angel of Death is actually my favorite scene, one because the Angel of Death was such an incredibly beautiful creature to work with. I mean, just watching that creature brought tears to my eyes. Guillermo actually had to tell me to stop crying, you know, Liz was stronger than that.
But it’s a huge moment. I mean, that’s nothing any real person hopefully in this world will ever have that question, that one person would have that much power to ever be really faced with the question of, “Would you save the one person you love at the expense of bringing the Apocalypse to the entire world?” I would hope. But some people would like to think they have that power I’m sure. But it’s a staggering question, obviously. Liz couldn’t imagine life without Hellboy. I mean, I think she’d give up her own life readily, but not without the love of Red. I mean, it’s a very selfish thing that she would do this, obviously. I don’t know, she’ll deal with the consequences later. I just don’t think she could believe it would be real, she just couldn’t say goodbye to Hellboy. It’s kind of a sickening thought, what will happen in “Hellboy 3,” what she will suffer, and what will happen to the world.

IESB: There’s going to be a “Hellboy 3”?

SB: God only knows. Guillermo will be very busy with “The Hobbit,” but it does set up “Hellboy 3” as a very, very sad piece of material.

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Today we have two more exclusive video interviews for Universal Pictures’ Hellboy II: The Golden Army (review), which arrives in theaters Friday. The other day we brought you SpookyDan’s exclusive chat with Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman (Hellboy), beyond the break you can watch his interviews with stars Selma Blair and Doug Jones. From Bloody Disgusting

Someone get Selma Blair a Hooters baby tee and a pair of Daisy Dukes!

Believe it or not, the Hellboy II: The Golden Army star once dreamed of straying for a moment from acting to show off some T&A in a music video.

“I wanted to be the cheesy pretty girl in a video,” Blair says in the new issue of Los Angeles Confidential magazine, adding, “I want to be the air-brushed girl, like in an Aerosmith video. Glamorous, sweet, pretty, sexy…Everything I’m not seen as.”

While that’s debatable, her new sitcom role will probably increase the indulgence factor.

Selma stars as Molly Shannon’s self-absorbed spoiled daughter in the upcoming Kath and Kim. “I was in Budapest for six months shooting Hellboy II, getting tired of being away on location so much,” she remembers. “My life seemed really fragmented. I wanted to stay in one place longer. So I thought it might be nice to go and do a TV show.”

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Liz Sherman’s role in Hellboy was basically to come out of her shell and accept her powers. In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, she faces an ultimate choice that will determine the fate of her relationship with Hellboy and their relationship with the human world.

“The scene with the Angel of Death is actually my favorite scene,” said Blair. “One, because the Angel of Death was such an incredibly beautiful creature to work with. I mean, just watching that creature brought tears to my eyes. Guillermo actually had to tell me to stop crying. Liz was stronger than that. But it’s a huge moment. I mean, that’s nothing any real person, hopefully in this world, will ever have that question. I mean, she will deal with the consequences later and I just don’t think she could believe that it would be real. What will happen in Hellboy III, what she will suffer, and what will happen to the world?”

And that’s the spoiler free explanation of her acting challenge. Safer topics include her hairstyle in the sequel. “It actually was Guillermo’s idea. I had really, really short hair at the time. I had shaved all my hair off, just for fun. I had really long hair, and I just gave myself a Mohawk, as you do, I guess, sometimes. It looked great. No, it looked great. I loved it. It looked great. I did it for a Vogue photo shoot, and I loved it. So I had this really strange Mohawk. That was a little too extreme for Liz. So that was a wig that I was wearing in the movie and that was Guillermo’s idea. Now I basically have the same haircut as I did in the movie. It was cute. We wanted Liz to have a more mature look than she did in the first one.”

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Some celebrities use their famous names to get every advantage. Others, like Selma Blair, go the opposite route.

After a waiter addresses her by a name not her own, the actress explains: “I go by a pseudonym that was my best friend’s name from high school,” she says, giggling. “She was the prettiest girl in my high school, and I always wanted to be her, and now I get to be her. And I love it.”

She’s also loving being surrounded again by her band of misfits in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, opening today. In the sequel, Blair’s Liz Sherman is in a tumultuous relationship with the scarlet hero (Ron Perlman). In between bickering about personal space, boundaries and Hellboy’s love of cats, they need to save the world from the ruthless Prince Nuada and his mythical army.

While filming the 2004 original in the Czech Republic, she says, “I was incredibly lonely. I’d gone through a terrible breakup. I depended on these people from Hellboy so much to get me through that, and I became really close to them. When I went back to the second one, I’d missed them so much.”

The feeling was mutual. Perlman calls Blair “truly a delight. She’s this cute little girl but also one of the guys. She’s got this really quick wit. She’s a crack-up. She’s incredibly bright and very quick, and she’s a great partner to work with.”

And Blair’s character has plenty to do this time. Liz is tougher and stronger than in the first installment.

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