LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes it's a little bit hard to understand what K.D. Aubert is saying.
Not because the twentysomething actress isn't articulate, because she is.
It's just that when you look into her eyes while she's speaking, everything sort of gets drowned out by this sound of waves crashing. And birds singing. And a heavenly choir. Stuff like that. It makes the whole "listening" thing a bit of a challenge.
The phenomenally beautiful Aubert makes her major movie debut in Friday After Next, the third instalment in star/co-writer Ice Cube's urban comedy franchise. It opens in theatres tomorrow.
Aubert plays Donna, a clerk at a clothing store that's owned by flamboyant pimp Money Mike (comedian Kat Williams). She also becomes the object of affection for Ice Cube's character Craig Jones, though on the south-central Los Angeles set for the flick Cube had her laughing more often than he had her, um, loving.
"Between him and (co-star) Mike Epps, I couldn't stop laughing," Aubert said.
"There was even one time where I had to get my makeup redone. Marcus (Raboy, director of Friday After Next) yelled at me one time, 'K.D., we're losing a lot of film, because we get good stuff and then you're like 'puh-HA!' at the end of it.' My laugh is very loud."
It's a fact that her diminutive co-star Williams backs up: "She's so pretty, it's funny to see her laugh and hear like, honks and snorts. It's beautiful."
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Aubert came to acting by way of modelling and TV commercials, doing spots for everything from Noxzema to legendary lingerie franchise Fredericks of Hollywood, as well as appearing in a P.Diddy music video.
Her only prior film appearance was a part in The Scorpion King as a member of a harem (her role is listed in the credits as "Harlot"), but her Friday After Next co-stars say Aubert has natural charm and chops. She claims it's all about them making her feel relaxed.
"I think in working together our chemistry helped out a lot," she said. "They just made it very easy for me to be me."
Aubert just wrapped shooting on an independent film called Easy, and is currently at work on Hollywood Homicide, a comedy-drama starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as LAPD homicide detectives investigating the murder of a rap group on stage. For the freshly minted actress, being on the same set as the legendary Ford was occasionally a little intimidating.
"He walks around with this grim face, and everybody is like, 'Oh my God, what's wrong with him?' But he's really just messing with you," said Aubert.
"We were all in the room the other night, and all we did the whole day was sit around and tell jokes. It was great.
"Then Harrison walks in and he's like (pregnant pause) ... 'So there was this guy, and he walked into a bar ...' It was funny, because everyone was like 'Harrison is telling a joke!' He's really great."
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