We talk to Kate Bosworth about the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns and how she views her career so far…

Q. Obviously Superman is incredibly iconic but so is Lois Lane. How did you go about creating that role for yourself, especially since everyone remembers Margot Kidder very fondly?
Kate Bosworth: I think for me that was one of the most challenging things – maintaining an essence of what Margot had created in terms of Lois Lane’s more traditional feistiness and independence. But there was obviously a lot of new elements. She now has a son and has had different life experiences that she hadn’t had before. Her heart’s been broken, she’s gone through a tremendous amount of pain, confusion and anger. I think Margot Kidder’s performance was fantastic because she’s a Lois that had probably never been in love before, or that had never been hurt. She was kind of in a situation where she’s so excited about life that she had the world at her feet and was living that innocence. I wanted her to feel changed in a way because she has been. When you have children, the focus is less on yourself and more on another little person and I think gaining battle wounds in life causes one to be less open with th