B.L. What was it like being the lone female with all this testosterone around you?
S.F. It was awesome; it was fun to be the only girl with all these awesome men. It was great. It might have been a little easier in the beginning if I had a pal. Bebe Neuwirth, who's so incredible didn't really come in until the very end...so I was doing the heavy lifting for us females.

B.L. Working opposite someone like Owen Wilson, how easy does he make it for you because he's such a likeable guy. Why?
S.F. That's what I say to everyone. He makes it so easy. He makes you look good, you know what I mean? If you're like mediocre, he makes you look good, if you're good, he makes you look great! He brings it out in you. I don't know what it is. He's so charming and funny, and easy to work with, and he's going to make a great director one day because he does that you know, he's really helpful.

B.L. How much freedom did you have developing Nancy?
S.F. I had a good amount, and Owen helped me with that actually. A lot of that you saw, a lot of it was improv. There were a few scenes that they actually kept that were just us — we just kind of did a little outline the morning of and went with it.

B.L. The boxing scene?
S.F. Yeah, a lot of that was improv. It was fun. Everyone was really open to my ideas and opinions, which I wasn't sure would be the case. And we kind of developed her as we went.

B.L. Was it at all daunting for you? I know you had come from T.V and modeling so you knew a little bit of the biz, but here you were doing your first feature. What was it like for you?
S.F. Daunting is a good word, that's kind of the word I've been using a little bit today. Surreal and daunting are the two words that really come up. I don't how to even explain it. When you walk on to a set for your first film and you know, Morgan Freeman is in this chair and Owen Wilson is in that chair and Gary Sinise who played in Forrest Gump. That's like my favorite movie. Gary Sinise is just incredible. Everyone on this set has won some kind of crazy award in their life, and I didn't know how people were going to react to me, and people could not have been more generous and open and giving.

B.L. Who ended up impressing you the most?
S.F. I was the most nervous to meet Morgan and that's only because I hadn't met him before arriving in Hawaii. Owen and I had spent a little bit of time together before we arrived here in pre-production. But Owen I worked with the most, the majority of my scenes were with him, and I'm the President of his fan club to say the least.

B.L. So we go on the website and just find your name, click in, e-mail to you...
S.F. If you have a question about him, call me because I love him.

B.L. He must be a lot of fun to work with. I just can't even imagine how much fun...
S.F. But he's like that off screen. You see him in Zoolander, you see him in all these movies...he's the same guy and he's so unaware of how wonderful he is.

B.L. Had you read the book before you started?
S.F. You know, I hadn't read the book and I hadn't seen the movie because they made the film with Ryan O'Neal years back, and I thought about it and I said "Okay, I want to rent the movie and I want to read the book." But, then I thought, "I actually don't want to because I wanted to create Nancy from the very beginning." I didn't want any preconceived notion; I didn't want any of that. I didn't want it to conflict with how I wanted to develop her. If that makes any sense?

B.L. You started modeling when you were about 14 or 15 years old?
S.F. Yeah, 16.

B.L. Was it a scary thing to start doing something like that?
S.F. Well modeling is strange you know, because it is all about this (referring to her figure); people say your personality is a big part of it but it's not. It's about this, and it's strange, this is definitely more for me, acting. I can't really sit still, so in modeling I'd get yelled at a lot, like, "stop moving!," because I want to be doing this all the time.

B.L. You have another film coming up called Debs, so tell us a little bit about that.
S.F. Debs is crazy. People are probably going to come out of it saying that it felt sort of like a spoof, like a Charlie's Angels spoof. So it's a group of girls who become part of this secret society, they become spies. They take this secret test that's at the back of the SAT's that measure your ability to lie, cheat, steal, and my character has the perfect score. So, we're to catch this diamond thief played by Jordana Brewster, who's a wonderful actress. And Michael Clarke Duncan is kind of our ringleader.

B.L. That sounds like a lot of fun.
S.F. Oh it's so fun. And we're all in schoolgirl uniforms — it's hilarious. It's very funny.

B.L. Now, of course your dad, David Foster, I mean us Canadians, like Oh my God! I grew up with your dad's music. Are you at all musically inclined? Did you ever want to go that way?
S.F. Never once, because I grew up with it. I've seen all the good sides, I've seen all the bad sides, and I can live vicariously through him. I don't...that business; it's a hard business. And on top of it, I can't sing, so there's really no point.

B.L. Do you play any instruments?
S.F. You know, I used to pay my piano teacher off. I'd get my allowance for the week and it'd go straight to my piano teacher to say that I was in class when I wasn't, because I was terrible and I had no interest. I preferred doing plays and theater.