Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, but spent a large part of her childhood living all over the United States.
Kate Bosworth loved riding horses, and by the age of 14 she was a champion equestrian. She also liked acting and singing which led her to participating in community theater and singing at local fairs.

Bosworth heard of a casting call for girls around her age that could ride horses so she attended an open audition in New York and used a family Christmas card photo as her headshot. The movie was a big Hollywood deal called The Horse Whisperer and it starred both director Robert Redford and Scarlett Johannson. Kate Bosworth scored the part of Judith, a young rider who gets killed in an awful riding accident. After that, Kate took a little time off from acting to be a regular teenager, but was back on the small screen in 2000 in the short-lived NBC series Young Americans.

Kate soon decided she'd have better luck with the big screen and snagged a role in Remember the Titans and The Newcomers. Her breakthrough role came when she played the lead in the all-girl surf movie called Blue Crush. She went on to Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and Beyond the Sea with Kevin Spacey. In 2006, Kate is suiting up to play Lois Lane and join actor newcomer Brandon Routh in Superman Returns which is directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2).

Delaware County Magazine: How do you prepare to play Lois Lane when there are other incarnations of her? Did you read any of the comics or watch the older films or TV shows again?

Kate Bosworth: I hadn't seen the original Superman for a really long time, probably since I was a little girl. So I made the decision to not watch that film until after I was done, just because I know myself too well to know that I would've put a strange pressure on myself to—not imitate, but I would have had Margot Kidder's performance in the back of my mind the whole time. [Director] Bryan [Singer] and I discussed it, and we decided to have a new, fresh approach to it. I paged through some comics but took little from them.

DCM: Now that you're done shooting the film, have you sought the old films out to watch them again?

Bosworth: Yeah. I watched Superman: The Movie. We had about a week left to go and I watched it with Jimmy Marsden, who plays my fiance in the film—he's such a huge Superman fan. He made me promise that when I watched it, I'd watch it with him. He brought it in the last week and we watched it together and it was so great. Of course I sat there going, "Oh, God. I hope that I didn't screw this up." It's such an amazing film and it has so many fans. I think that we were all keeping our heads down and doing the best that we could without feeling the enormity of it all.

DCM: Now that you've seen the film, what's the biggest difference between your Lois Lane and Kidder's portrayal?

Bosworth: I suppose the main difference for me is that I have a child. In this film, I've already had a whole relationship with Superman, so that relationship is more complicated. I played her sort of—I'm not a mother, but I suppose that when someone becomes a mother, their attention is less on themselves and more on their child. They're less selfish and more aware of the other thing that you created. I played that a bit more grownup, a bit more aware of life and the joys and heartbreaks that it brings.

DCM: What is Lois' relationship like with Clark Kent when he returns to Earth?

Bosworth: I suppose that it's the same than it was in the original. It's like, "Oh, you're back. Hey, Clark. How are you doing?" I suppose that she has a soft spot in her heart, like you would for any sweet person that's been in your life for a while, but she's still not particularly aware of his existence.

DCM: But she feels differently about Superman's return after the five years he’s been gone?

Bosworth: She's heartbroken, hurt and angry. She has a lot of pain. Five years obviously numbs that pain a bit, and I suppose that she's probably tried to put him out of her mind because she's not really sure that he was ever going to come back. And I didn't really feel like Lois was the type of woman that would just sit around and wait; she's pretty ambitious and driven in life. I think that she would've given herself a bit of grieving and then moved on. So when he comes back after five years, all those feelings and emotions come to the surface again. And when she finds out that he's first come back, she hasn't seen him face to face. It's all over the news, and [Daily Planet Editor] Perry [White] wants her to get the interview with Superman, and she's very reluctant to do so because she doesn't want to face him and have those feelings, have him see her vulnerability. Then when she finally does see him, it's a bit of a face-off in a way for her. There are some really good scenes in it that I’m proud of.

DCM: What was it tike seeing [Superman actor] Brandon Routh in the costume for the first time?

Bosworth: That was fun. We did a fake newspaper cover for The Daily Planet, and it was Brandon in his costume and he was standing next to me. He was wearing this black cape over the suit because they hadn't released any pictures of him in the suit yet and they wanted to keep that pretty secret. It was this funny mix of Darth Vader and Superman. But when he took it off, it was pretty amazing, and I think that everyone on the set got chills.

DCM: Are you excited about getting your own action figure? You're even getting a Barbie doll?

Bosworth: I know. I got sent a Barbie doll several months ago. It was pretty weird. I have to say that I really don't think that they look anything like us. It's sort of hard to say that when it's you.

DCM: Is it weirder that little kids are going to play with you, or that 40-year-old fanboys are going to be decorating their desks with you?

Bosworth: Yeah, that's weird. That's the fun part and the very strange part I think for all of us. God! It's exciting and so much fun. It's part of this whole "Superman" process, and it's really just a ride that you try and hold onto.

DCM: This is your second film in a row now where you worked with Actor/Director Kevin Spacey [The other movie is the Bobby Darin Bio-Pic Beyond The Sea which Spacey also directed]. What makes Kevin unique as a actor and director compared to others you've worked with?

Bosworth: I think his passion is infectious from the get-go. But really just as a director I felt incredibly safe because I knew he knew everything about Bobby Darin. It's not like this is a director who thought it was a cool project about Bobby Darin. He loved the project and that was infectious to me. In terms of his directing, I've never worked with such an experienced, seasoned director before.

DCM: Can you draw parallels between Bobby Darin and Kevin Spacey?

Bosworth: One I'd say is their passion. That was the main thing. Kevin is such a huge fan of Bobby that I think they have the same love for the music in a certain way. They're both incredibly driven. It was exhausting for me to hear Kevin talk about his day, much less live it with him, but it was a great experience!