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‘Underworld: Awakening’: Kate Beckinsale likes it skin-tight

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The ‘Underworld’ franchise hit theaters nearly a decade ago, in 2003, and though its star, Kate Beckinsale, is now 38, she’s continued to play an ageless vampire, most recently in ‘Underworld: Awakening,’ which premiered Thursday.

As the vampire Selene, she’s still kicking butt in a skin-tight leather costume, which may not seem the easiest task in an action- and stunt-filled movie. ‘Actually, it’s a costume I really liked,’ Beckinsale revealed at the film’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre premiere.

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She also told the Insider recently, ‘I remember the first movie I did, I was very intimidated by the costume. I trust it now. Actually, it gives you a little bit of help, if anything.’

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‘Underworld: Awakening’ features some characters new to the franchise, played by ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ young star India Eisley and Michael Ealy, who with ‘Awakening’ gets to show off his action chops for the first time since the Paul Walker-starring ‘Takers.’ Both actors shared positive experiences from working with Beckinsale.

‘She’s very funny, and she knows how to have fun on set between takes, and I think that’s something that’s important with something that’s obviously dark,’ Eisley told Ministry of Gossip.

Ealy told reporters, ‘Working with Kate is as fun as it is to hang out with her. She’s so ...’ — the actor glanced sideways at his publicist before deciding how to word his answer, which fell just on the other side of publishable — ‘[very] cool.’

“Underworld: Awakening,” the fourth film in the vampires-versus-lycans series, opens in theaters Friday and is expected to sink its teeth deep into this weekend’s box office sales.

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— Emily Rome

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