I have added 33 HQ images of Selma from her appearance on “Total Request Live” from earlier today. Click on the thumbnails below to check them out. Selma looked great!

Selma Blair Q&A: Dating? Don’t ask
The actress celebrates a new movie (‘Hellboy 2: The Golden Army’), a birthday and more, including a new series this fall.
By Choire Sicha, Special to The Times
July 6, 2008
SELMA BLAIR costars in “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army,” which opens Friday. She’s also in Lori Petty’s autobiographical drama “Poker House,” which just played at the Los Angeles Film Festival. This fall, she and Molly Shannon star in NBC’s American version of “Kath and Kim.”

Do you generally enjoy being interviewed?

Sometimes I think it’s really invigorating to talk about myself for a while! But then I feel really strange because I’ve been talking about myself for an hour. You know, it doesn’t make for a good conversation.

It’s maybe not dangerous but sort of exhaustingly odd to plumb yourself all day.

My whole life I’ve been missing a filter. I don’t censor myself very well. Thank God people don’t give that much of a hoot about me.

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Selma Blair has one of the most fascinating careers of any actress in Hollywood. From the strangely appealing STORYTELLING, to the downright bizarre A DIRTY SHAME. She has had the opportunity to work with some incredibly gifted directors from John Waters to, of course, Guillermo del Toro who once again brings her back as Liz in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY.

So, okay. Here I am, thinking that Selma Blair would be this ultra serious, indie actor who has no time for a silly on-line journalist. I walk in to meet with her, and almost the second I entered the room, I realized how damn cool she is. We talked Hellboy and we talked Guillermo, and before we even talked on camera, we joked about illegal substances. I heart Selma Blair! Hey, I even screw up a question and she is so sweet about it. Anyway, she is great in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY… so go see it this Friday at a theatre near you.

From Joblo.com

Selma Blair gets all fired up in Hellboy II as Liz, the pyrotechnic long-time companion of the big, red, brewski-loving superhero. Bursting into flames to take out some fantastically ugly monsters is just one more example of the outrageous turns Blair has taken since her role opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions.

In person, there’s nothing outrageous about Blair. The petite brunette is sweet and wickedly funny.

You’d never be attracted to a beer-drinking, blue-collar guy in real life would you?

“I have been many times—the guy that gets things done and then can relax with you and joke around but just doesn’t put on airs. There’s something nice about that, it’s sort of the textbook definition of what a guy is. In the movie, I love how average Hellboy and Liz are. It’s endearing that these people who have extraordinary powers are so busy killing monsters that they can’t the find the time to talk about their own relationship.”

You’ve been married [to Ahmet Zappa] and divorced. What’s your take on love?

“I’m a romantic. I think I probably had my heart broken a few times, so maybe I am a little bit more jaded now. I don’t think I could follow the ’10 commandments of love’ in those self-help books and articles because I think rules have to be adjusted for every person you meet. I don’t think there’s a real formula. And that’s why I get a kick out of Hellboy and Liz; they’re an odd couple who fight ferociously but still love each other.”

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Selma Blair has shone in dozens of films, inhabiting a gamut of characters from the frothy to the seedy. Now she’s not only a leading lady — she’s got her own action figure.

Selma Blair has Charlotte Rampling’s eyes, Dorothy Parker’s precision-strike wit, and sufficient acting chops to blow better-known actresses off the screen with a toss of her bangs. Having shone in all manner of movies, from lightweight fare like Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and Cruel Intentions (in which she famously twisted tongues with Sarah Michelle Gellar) to darker indie films like Kill Me Later and Todd Solondz’s Storytelling, the 36-year-old native of the Detroit suburbs has lately been trading up her character-actress cred for a fatter slice of the cultural pie.

“Part of me would love to have been a leading lady, because there’s a lot of glamour that goes with that, and a lot of applause,” she says, nursing a coffee in a West Hollywood patisserie. “But I’ve been very blessed. I’m not one of these girls who has to fit into a mold. I’m a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I ‘should’ do for my career.”

Blair, the youngest of four overachieving sisters, was born in Southfield, Michigan. “I was always kind of the storyteller,” she recalls. “I remember being in the schoolyard when I was six, and I’d make up stories about how there was a huge carnival behind my house and then get in trouble because everyone wanted to come to see it. I had to become a recluse at a very young age so my story wouldn’t be found out.” After she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in photography and a minor in English (“I was mostly writing about despair, grief, loneliness…the usual William Styron type of stuff,” Blair laughs), a stint at the Stella Adler Studio in New York City nudged her into acting.

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Makeup, however, is an entirely different matter for the self-declared “poor applier,” who sticks with basics like nude lipstick and pink blush, and ducks whenever she sees a liquid liner. “I avoid anything difficult,” she says.

Blair’s signature look: “A rosy cheek, a smudgy eye, a lot of mascara–I look like a doll that has too much makeup on, and I love it!”

Have you always been a beauty chameleon?
(See the rest of this interview and another picture after the jump)
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