Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

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Acting as a robot is really hard for actors. They have to hide all their natural feelings and emotions. Even the way they move and walk has to change completely to play a robot part.

About Kristanna Loken

Kristanna Loken is an American actress who had her breakthrough role as the T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, for which she was nominated for two Saturn Awards. She has also starred in films like BloodRayne and Bounty Killer, as well as TV shows like Painkiller Jane and The L Word.

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