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"Silk Spectre fights like a man and she is a strong, powerful woman. She definitely has no remorse, no mercy, and is a full-on fighter," actress Malin Akerman, who plays Silk Spectre II aka Lori Jupiter, the daughter of the original Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino) says about her role.

Lorrie's life is filled with resentment, Akerman reveals about her character. "It just seems that relationship after relationship, from The Comedian to her mother to Dr Manhattan, it's just so much resentment that builds up and that's what fuels her in her fights, in life," the actress informs.

 

Malin claims that when she finished one week of training for the stunts, she suddenly wasn't as excited about the role as she was earlier. But despite the tough routine, she wanted to do all the stunts herself and not rely on stuntmen.

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Movie Story

Watchmen rolls back the years to 1985, where an alternate America is attuned to superheroes saving the day, and the tension between USA and the Soviet Union still threatens to destroy the world.

When masked vigilante Rorschach's former colleague is murdered, he reconnects with his former crime-fighting team of superheroes, and uncovers a disturbing conspiracy which threatens to bring forth a catastrophic future.  

Based on the well known graphic novel, Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder (of 300 fame). The cast playing the superheroes includes such names as Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg.

 

Incidentally, Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award and to be named among Time magazine's 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923.

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