Uma Thurman Gets Superpowers In Latest Role

Los Angeles, July 19, 2006 -- Uma Thurman is known for playing extreme characters.

As Mia Wallace in "Pulp Fiction," a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination, she accidentally snorts heroin and ends up with an adrenaline shot in the chest.

In the two "Kill Bill" films she plays a sword-wielding bride hell-bent on revenge.

She's also been a bisexual hippie hitchhiker, a virginal 18th-century convent girl and the goddess Venus.

In her latest film "My Super Ex-Girlfriend," opening Friday Thurman plays two extremes at once. She is Jenny Johnson, a neurotic, bumbling brunette capable of falling in love after one mediocre date. But Johnson is also secretly the superhero G-Girl, a blond bombshell who can fly, throw cars and burn through metal with her eyes.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

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