You know that he's doing 'The Preacher.' Is that something that you'd like to guest star in?

I would love to. I love that comic book. It's amazing, that whole idea. So I would love that.

What are your favorite comic books aside from 'Ghost Rider?'

'Ghost Rider.' You know what, I really don't know. I would just say more comic book characters because I'm not that familiar with comic books. So I would say 'Ghost Rider' and I just love the idea of 'Spider-Man' which is funny because I'm totally arachnophobia, but I think that it'd be cool if one of them bit me and then no one could ever touch me again, and I could be like, 'I rule the world!' Is that weird? Am I weird? So, yeah, I'm not tally into that. I just like the themes. I love good versus evil. I obviously love good prevailing over evil. So this is really exciting to me.

When the guys who are uber-fans start talking about the mythology do you pretend that you know what you're talking about?

No. I just get up and get some coffee and let the boys talk. I'm like, 'You guys need anything? You good?' No. They actually educated me quite a bit. It was cool that they were really open to educating me because both of them together, I really couldn't get a word in edgewise if I had a word to put in because they were just so cute together. They could talk comic books for hours and it's really cute.

Did you go back and look at 'Ghost Rider?'

I did actually. I looked back and Roxanne Simpson is obviously very different from me. I was like, 'So, she's blonde and Caucasian, blue eyed, not me.' But I hope that the comic book fans don't reject that. I hope that they accept me for another version of Roxanne. So what I did realize what I could do was that – I swear this is so silly of me, but hopefully it works – I realized she was very, very voluptuous in all the comic books. She had massive boobage and hips, and I was like, 'Okay, why don't I not watch what I eat so much and let the fun stuff grow.' So I let the fun stuff grow because at least that way I could give them the voluptuous part. Hopefully they won't be disappointed [Laughs].

What about working with the FX, were there times when you working opposite nothing, a tennis ball or whatever?

Totally.

How was that to do?

You know what, at first you just feel like an idiot to be honest. You feel like a moron because there is nothing there. There is just nothing there, and you're like, 'Okay, what do I do.' That's where acting class comes in and I study religiously with my coach and that's where that comes into play. I have to go into myself even more so than before. Having Nicolas in front of me is fantastic and I get to work off of so much, but when you're there on your own you're like, 'Boy, I need to bring out some issues.' You kind of bring out certain things that you're really scared of and that you're really dealing with. So you have to go really deep. It's cool, but it's difficult. I definitely like working with actors, but this is part of the job. What's really exciting is when you see it all together and you go, 'Oh my God, that is so great. It's so cool. It's a burning beast in front of me and I'm getting taken away.' So it all comes together.

How hard is it not to laugh at someone with a green ski mask on?

It's hysterical. It's so funny. I don't know if he remembers this, but I had this thing that we ended up calling giggle-rama because once I started I couldn't stop because you just felt so silly. You know that the finished product is going to be really cool, but you're doing this now. It's like you were back in school, doing that, and just knowing that you weren't supposed to made you laugh more.

With the voluptuous thing, was it fun to relax and not worry about the Hollywood shape?

It was so awesome, dude. It's not like I let myself go. It wasn't like I was gaining weight for a role like I was stuffing my face or something. It was more just like, 'Yeah. I'll have that second serving. I'm tired. I'm not going to the gym today.'

Did you feel sexier?

I actually did believe it or not because my bajungas were big. That's the technical terms, but yeah, it was really nice. It was like, 'Wow, this is cool.' It helped me to get into character. Let’s say that. The Cuban side of me came out. It's the side of me that's dying to come out. It's like, 'Let me out! Come on, please.' I'm like, 'No! You stay in there you Cuban lady.'

How was Australia?

Oh, so dangerous because it was so much fun. Melbourne is such a fun city. Such a fun city. The Australians are amazing people. I just got on with them so well. The whole no worries thing, I'm so into that whole philosophy. 'No worries, mate. Let’s have a beer.' It's a very cool thing to adopt.

Aside from your physical transformation you play a reporter in the movie.

I wouldn't call it a physical transformation. I love that though.

Did you model your character on any reporters? I hate when some actresses play reporters and they don't do it accurately because reporters are such a different breed of people.

Are they? I did a little bit, but we actually really see me in two scenes being a field reporter. The first scene we didn't see today, but it's when I first see Ghost Rider for the first time in twelve years or something. So that was kind of like everything going out the window because I kept trying to hold it together and keep professional. But the man you love is right in front of you and you're talking to him in an interview for the first time. I just went back to fifteen right away. So the years of journalism and the experience in field reporting didn't really pay off in that moment. So you don't really see that too much. The only thing that I was really worried about was my voice because I'm very up and down and up and down. I can sometimes get whinny which I really hate. So I was careful when I did those couple of scenes to keep my voice very strong and not to go up and down. Honestly though there wasn't that much focus on that. So we were more concentrating on playing the human part of her because the second time we see her in that situation she's again – it's after he stands her up. So it's more emotional and I play more just this woman who is totally in love and frustrated. She's like, 'Goddamn it. Why has this happened to me again and why can't I be with the guy that I love?'

Now are you signed for sequels of this?

You know what, someone just asked me that, but I have no idea for real. I'm like texting my agent, 'Am I signed for a sequel?' Is that terrible?

Would you come back for a sequel?

With these guys, yeah. With these guys absolutely. I know I sound like I'm a space cadet.

What did you learn from watching Nicolas when you were done with the movie?

That you can take any material and make it your own and very interesting. What I really learned from him is that you prepare for a scene and you're going to work tomorrow to do that scene, and you don't know what the other person is going to do, but you expect that the scene is going to go a certain way and it's written in a certain way. So he would come in every time and he would flip those lines and he played the not obvious part of the line. I thought, 'God, this is so interesting.' I was like, 'How do you do that? I want to do that?' It's so cool that he can turn everything on its head and that's what I really learned about him. It was to not play the obvious scene and to really take chances, and make the choices differently. It was really cool.

What are you working on now and what do you have coming up?

I just finished my first movie that I produced. It's a very, very independent film called 'Live' which I play a network executive hired to get the network back up. It's a television network and I basically – it's really cool because it's a commentary on like America and where we're going with reality TV and stuff like that. So I play this character where I'm so focused on getting the network back up and I find a way to put 'Russian Roulette' on the air. It sounds funny and hysterical, but the really funny part is that I don't we're that far away from that. My character finds this sort of loop hole in the legal system and finds a way to do it. It is very thought provoking and for me it was very important to do because I really feel like we are deep into the dumbing down of America, and I don't want to be a part of that, or I want to be a part of it as least as is possible. So I thought that this gave me some kind of voice. Then earlier this year I did a really dramatic piece with Joaquin Phoenix and Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg which is called 'We Own The Night' which is kind of my first real drama, leading role in a drama. It was an unbelievable and amazing experience. It was really intense and really cool.