I'm Not Superman's Girlfriend
The
star of the New Professionals Lexa Doig
has simulated sex on screen with Dean
Cain. He’d bought her champagne
and caviar, but she insists they’re not
an item.
The
first Canadian actress Lexa Doig knew
about the rumour that she was having a
raging affair with Superman star Dean
Cain was when her dad rang her and asked
about it.
Lexa’s
dad took early retirement from the oil
industry after being struck down with
multiple sclerosis. ‘He spends his
days on the Internet now. He’s a
total web junkie, and one of the things
he looks for is news about me,’ she says.
‘He
found these stories about me on one of
Dean’s fan websites. They’re extraordinarily
detailed. His fans even knew which
restaurant we’d been to and on what night.
It’s really weird to think that complete
strangers know where I was on a given
Saturday night.’
‘But
as far as Dean is concerned, we’re just
friends who hung out a bit because we
were working together.’
Lexa
and Dean made a movie together in Canada
earlier this year. In the drug-theft
thriller The Unconcerned, yet to be released
here, she plays a woman hired by gangsters
to seduce Dean’s character.
Lexa
adds: ‘My dad also found and interview
on the Internet where I’d said that filming
a love scene with Dean had been a nightmare.’
‘He
wanted to know what this man had done
to me that was so bad. I had to
explain that Dean wasn’t the problem.
I like him, he’s a really nice guy.’
‘But
he’s someone I work with, and if you try
to imagine simulating sex with someone
you work with, in front of all your other
co-workers, while your boss - in my case
the film director - keeps yelling at you
that you’re doing it wrong, then you’ll
know why it can be a nightmare.’
‘Dean
was really good about it. He bought
me a big bottle of champagne when we filmed
the scene. Then he took me out for caviar
after I’d told him I’d never tasted it
before.’
They
also went out to a lap-dancing club with
the film’s director Bruce Pitman.
‘Bruce is a big fan of strip bars,’ says
Lexa. ‘So if you go out with him,
that’s where you go. So there I
am with these strippers in front of me
and I’m trying to hold a conversation
with them, like: “Do you have kids?
What are the hours like? Do you
wax or shave?” It was totally bizarre.’
Lexa
broke up with her boyfriend, Canadian
actor Joel Keller, when she came to London
to film CI5: The New Professionals, which
is currently running on Sunday nights
on Sky.
She’s
actually quite pleased with her new-found
single status. ‘I came back to Canada
after filming The New Professionals here
and realised how much I’d enjoyed being
by myself.’
‘It
was kind of difficult being 24 years old
and feeling like I was already married.’
‘There’s
so much I want to do with my life and
I didn’t want the responsibility of feeling
like somebody’s wife. I didn’t want
to find myself thinking in 10 years time
- and two kids later - that I wished I’d
done something else, gone down a different
road.’
The
classic 1980s TV series The Professionals
featured Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and
Gordon Jackson - and no significant female
roles. In the new version, Lexa
stars as computer whizzkid Tina Backus,
alongside Kal Weber, Colin Wells and Edward
Woodward.
She
certainly brings an added element of glamour
to the show. ‘You see more and more
of me as it goes on,’ she laughs.
‘It
started off with me looking businesslike
in suits and trousers. The one of
the backers who put up money for the show
said it was a shame I was never in a dress.
So in the next episode I’m wearing a dress.’
‘Then
another backer said it was a pity they
never showed my legs, so they put me in
a miniskirt.’
‘I’m
just waiting for another investor to say
they’d like to see me taking a shower,
then by the next series you’ll have my
naked butt on screen.’
(Copyright
Now! Magazine 2000)
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