Even today, I said, “I’m coming to Copenhagen. Palate cleanse. This is where I’m going to be very minimal again, and go back to my simple colours and everything.” And then I put [an outfit] together, and was wearing this polka-dot skirt and a big hat, and I was like, “Okay, I’m still in the Tennessee Williams play.” I can’t get away from it.
Style is about what you’re going through in your life and how you want to present yourself to the world. I’m not a real trend follower, and I’m a little rebellious. Wear what you want. Wear what you want. And jewellery is a good way to express yourself—makeup, no makeup, whatever you want to do.
We say more with our presentation than we do with our words—it all kind of goes together. If you want to be in a good mood, wear something fun, put some jewellery on. It all helps. It accentuates your mood. It’s not like you look into the future six months and go, “I’m going to wear that, I’m going to wear that.” You just wake up in the morning and look in your closet and go in your jewellery box, and decide this is what I’m wearing today in spite of how I felt yesterday.” This is a new day. It’s a clean slate.
Do you have a go-to date-night outfit?
Date night? My gosh, date night. I don’t know. Trench coat, nothing underneath but Pandora. Approachable, fun. No, I’m kidding! [Laughs.]
What was it like to film The Naked Gun?
Every day was fun. It was wild. It was crazy. It was so much fun to make that film, and, you know, we had a good time. I haven’t seen the final [cut] yet — I saw it with Liam [Neeson] in an empty theatre, just him and I, for the first time. We were just looking at each other like, “This is crazy.”
I want to see it with a group of people. I’ll sneak in the back somewhere. We had a lot of fun making it, and the snowman stuff was especially ridiculous and out-there. [Laughs.] And the scat singing. It’s fond memories.
Which aspects of your appearance do you appreciate more as you get older?
Maybe not so much appearance — maybe just my mind. I feel more self-accepting and embracing of who I am and what I look like. We’re going through a time when people are taking a lot of pictures of themselves, there’s a lot of social media, but they don’t really look like their social media.
I’ve cracked the code: I actually look in the mirror like I do on social media. Then you don’t have to get so depressed. Or [if] I see a bad picture of myself, I don’t fret over anything like that anymore.
Maybe it’s accentuated or maybe it’s not relatable because I’ve been in this business, but I think people can relate a little bit. They’re always doing selfies and putting them on their [feeds], and then they’re like, “Oh, I don’t look like that,” or “I look bad right now,” when really you just look like you!