British actress Kate Beckinsale has sworn to stay away from big-budget projects, after her recent epics Pearl Harbour and Van Helsing completely failed to arouse critics' interest.
Beckinsale, who got her big break in Pearl Harbour, was disappointed at the critics' response to the blockbuster, but admits that it was inevitable that people would rip the film apart, as it arrived at the box office after such intensive media hype. 'We hadn't even started shooting and people were saying nasty things. That's because it was the most expensive movie ever green-lit,' Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
Of Van Helsing, she said, 'Well, what are you going to do, it wasn't exactly Spartacus, was it? But it was also one of those
movies where people spent a lot of money in quite an ostentatious way, so the knives were already out.'
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