Jaimie Alexander doesn’t want to wear a ‘push-up bra & hot pants’ to kick butt

I’d be willing to be that — until yesterday — many of you had never heard of Jaimie Alexander. Then you saw Jaimie wearing that dress, and it was like Asgardian fog suddenly cleared and revealed a brand new attention-grabbing starlet. Of course Jaimie has been diligently working in Hollywood for at least a few years at this point. In a physical sense, Jaimie very much reminds me of a young Angie Everhart, so you wouldn’t be the only one who’s been confused about her true identity.

In gossip circles, Jaimie is the jump-off (and Nurse Jackie co-star) of Peter Facinelli after his marriage from Jennie Garth crumbled. More importanly, Jaimie appears next to Chris Hemsworth’s abs in the Thor movies. Jaimie plays lady warrior Sif of Asgard, who is the romantic rival of Natalie Portman’s Jane. I think Sif actually ends up with Thor in the comics, right? Jaimie is similarly ambitious. Kaiser corretly pointed out how the internet considers her the front runner for an unidentified female character in the upcoming Superman-Batman movie. She’s also not-so-secretly gunning for a modern Wonder Woman movie … not that she’d be interested in the role at all. At least if the costume is going to be as sexist as it used to be.

Beyond Hollywood, Jaimie grew up in Texas. She says she was a wrestler in high school. All of this comes courtesy of her new video interview with Vanity Fair:

On the tough stuff: “My greatest fear is flying on airplanes, actually. I do a lot of my own stunts. I love helicopters, bungee jumping, the whole schbang. But airplanes … I have to be drunk.”

She has four supportive brothers: “Until they like see me in some magazine where I’m like in a bikini or something, and they’re like, ‘Dude, that’s my sister, stop looking at it.’ But they love it, and luckily I’ve gotten to do a lot of action films, and that’s what they really enjoy.

She was an athlete in high school: “I was a wrestler. It just teaches you discipline and self respect. And you know your worth, and it definitely creates a grounded personality. That I find … when I meet a lot of women from Texas, they have that certain similarity.”

How to stay grounded: “Oh, it’s tough. You have people saying, ‘Oh wear your hair like this. Lose this much weight. Gain this much weight. Do this. Do that. And part of you goes, ‘Well, that’s not me. And because that’s a lot of extra work, I don’t care to put that effort into myself, I guess.”

Her greatest achievement: “Trying to do things without fear. And just letting go and taking that first leap of faith and just going with the flow.”

She wants to see evil Sif: “I would love to see her as Lady Loki. I would love for her to be evil.”

On typical action-movie pitches: “Oh, yeah! We’ll put you in a push-up bra and hot pants and you’ll run around and punch some guy in the face. Like how about not.”

[From Vanity Fair & ComicBookMovie.com]

That last bit about Jaimie not wanting to kick action-movie butt while dressed up in a provocative costume is interesting. First off, that’s exactly what (for better or worse) most action heroines are forced to wear in movies. Katniss Everdeen, Sarah Connor, and Ripley of Aliens fame are a few exceptions, but (sadly) most butt-kicking chicks end up looking like Pam Anderson in Barb Wire. Secondly, Jaimie wore that dress on the Thor 2 red carpet a few days ago, which (arguably) says, “I’m willing to wear whatever it takes to get your attention.”

Here’s a video clip of Jaimie’s interview with Vanity Fair.

Photos courtesy of WENN