Posted by Adam

Tuesday October 6, 2009

Kate Beckinsale‘s hair froze while the actress was filming her new movie Whiteout.

The British star — who was recently named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine — had to brave freezing temperatures in Canada while filming the flick.

And Beckinsale admits she wasn’t prepared for the cold — even though she thought it would come naturally.

“When we arrived, they put a thick telephone directory under our hotel room doors, the night before we started shooting, that said: ‘These are all the different ways it’s possible to die here, of being too cold or of being too hot, if you keep your clothes on too long, when you go inside, or if you’ve ever had an alcoholic drink, or if you breathe in a westerly direction.’

“And we all panicked. The most I remember was putting on and taking off 15 layers of clothes, about 70 times a day. When we first went out, all the men had beards full of ice that I thought was make-up department tests, but it wasn’t.

“It was real. And, my hair froze into a point, just from breathing on it. I thought: ‘Well, I’m from England, I’ll know how to handle the cold.’ And it wasn’t anything like that.”

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