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EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity Superhero Powers - Part II
POSTED ON 06/22/04 AT 4:00 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

By Thomas Chau

We here at Cinema Confidential chat with celebrities on a weekly basis, and while we do want to know about things like their next movie, their career goals, and their interests, etc.. we, for almost a year now, have tried to figure out the most important question of them all:

IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPERHERO POWER, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Last December, we showed you what Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan Kate Beckinsale, and others desired in Part I of our on-going feature. This week, I thought to myself: What better way to hype up the coming of one of the biggest comic book movies of all-time than to bring out Part II?

And so, below are 25 new actors from the year so far who have given us their thoughts regarding superhero powers.

Kristina Anapau
(Cruel Intentions 3)

"I would choose to be able to fly just because I think it would you more freedom. Actually, better than flying: to be able to be yourself in different places. Thinking of a place and then you're instantly there. Think about how much time you'd save? You'd get so much stuff done every single day. You can be anywhere you wanted. Oh, I feel like going to South France today! Boom, you're there! It'd save so much time, so much airfare. Also, you could fly there in real time, just to enjoy it. I do a lot of studying on astro travel and out of body experiences. Supposedly, your spirit body goes traveling at least three times a week while you're asleep, just spontaneously! Sometimes, you have out of body experiences in your dreams when you think you're dreaming. I think that's deep-seeded in our subconsciouses which is why everyone would love to fly."


Jessica Boehrs
(Euro Trip)

"Wow, that’s a tough question. You know what? I would like to sometimes read somebody’s mind. That’s a good thing I guess."


Elisha Cuthbert
(The Girl Next Door)

"I don’t know. Hmm…read minds?"


Kirsten Dunst
(Spider-Man 2)

"With the state of our country right now, I would, maybe, kick our president out of office. A political superpower. I would rearrange pretty much all the circumstances in the world right now if I had a superhero power."


Dakota Fanning
(The Cat in the Hat, Man on Fire)

"What I would do is make a dog appear whenever I wanted because my mom doesn’t like dogs. Well, she likes dogs but she doesn’t want me to get one yet."


James Franco
(Spider-Man 2)

"Speed-reader."


Romola Garai
(Dirty Dancing 2, Vanity Fair )

"It's like the question of would you be invisible or fly. I think I would fly. Flying would be great. "


Jennifer Garner
(TV's Alias)

"Have you guys already heard my answer for this one? Metabolism."


Ethan Hawke
(Taking Lives)

"I think I would fly. Is that what everybody says?"


Jon Heder
(Napoleon Dynamite)

"It’s so funny that you ask that because when “X-Men 2” came out, we all went home and asked, “All right, if you had to have a superhero power but one that hasn’t been taken yet…” But I think being invisible would be pretty sweet or being able to change time. But flying would be it. That would be the sweetest power in the world. "


Thomas Jane
(The Punisher)

"Invisibility."


Ashley Judd
(De-Lovely)

"To not have to do press. To promote my movies without having to be in day 5 of an 11 day junket when I have a cold."


Val Kilmer
(Spartan)

"To be able to transcend water."


Luke Mably
(The Prince & Me)

"Fly."


Olivier Martiniez
(Taking Lives)

"Flying. Because I hate planes."


Tobey Maguire
(Spider-Man 2)

"I’m not sure. I guess I’d like to fly. That would be kind of cool. That would be fun."


Chris Marquette
(The Girl Next Door, TV's Joan of Arcadia )

"I would want to fly because ever since I was little, I would have these weird dreams where I would be floating ten feet off the sidewalk and nobody noticed and I would just keep floating by everybody. So I’d choose flying. I’m lazy and don’t want to walk."


Rachel McAdams
(Mean Girls, The Notebook)

"Ooh, just one? I’ve just been reading 'Fantastic Four' so I have invisibility in my head."


Alfred Molina
(Coffee & Cigarettes, Spider-Man 2 )

"Being able to breathe under water."


Marguerite Moreau
(Off the Lip)

"To be able to keep my mouth shut because it gets me in trouble. I think that would be the best. My mother would appreciate it."


Hayden Panettiere
(Raising Helen)

"Can I have two? I would probably want to be able to...wait, can I have three? Like zoom to anywhere I want and to be able to read people minds. And if I could have a third one, it would be to be able to morph into any person."


Brad Pitt
(Troy)

"I’d like to turn back time if I could. I’d like to redo a couple of things."


Julia Stiles
(The Prince & Me)

"Oooh. I’d want to be able to fly. Fly without a plane."


Terence Stamp
(TV's Smallville, The Haunted Mansion)

"I wouldn't mind [General] Zod's x-ray ability." (referring to his character in Superman 2)


Denzel Washington
(Man on Fire)

"Super sense of humor. To laugh people to death."

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