iVillage Video Interview: Star Spotlight on Patricia Arquette

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On the sci-fi drama Medium, which returns tonight at 9 p.m. on CBS, Patricia Arquette helps solve crimes using her extraordinary ability to read minds and see the future. Unfortunately, those powers don't translate to real life. The Emmy award-winning actress is just a normal – albeit extremely talented – mom of two. But if she could channel super-human skills, they'd be from someone a little more glamorous than a medium. "I want to be Wonder Woman because she has an invisible plane, so I could go anywhere I want," she says. Plus, her magical jewelry's pretty cool, too! Check out our exclusive video to find out what movie always makes Patricia cry, and why she's so scared of the ocean.



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iVillage: What movie did you see as a kid that probably shouldn't have?
Patricia Arquette: I think when I was about eleven or tweleve, thirteen, somewhere around there, I saw Jaws. My parents didn't want me to see Jaws, but I was complaing and yacking that everyone else got to see Jaws. So I saw Jaws and I don't know that I've ever been in the ocean past my knees since then. A couple of times I swam in the waters where I'm like, "Okay, I need three people swiming around me and looking for sharks!"

iVillage: What's one film scene that always makes you cry?
Patricia Arquette: Splendor in the Grass is a really moving movie to me. I saw it when I was a teenager and its kinda about first love and heartbreak and um... Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty are in it and their like, at the height of their most beauitful and the acting is superb. So, that movie always makes me sad.

iVillage: What movie are you most excited to see with your kids?
Patricia Arquette: I show my kids movies I love all the time... as they age and then I start turning them on to those movies. Um, Harold and Maude was a really important movie to show my son when he got old enough, because there such a aspect of life --- the life force and choices. Loving who you love and without, whatever... convention it's supposed to be. That this boy, this young man, is learning about appreciating and loving his life from this person who embraces life so much. So, uh, that's a really pivotal movie for me.

iVillage: What action hero would you like to be for a day?
Patricia Arquette: I wanna be Wonder Woman, because, Wonder Woman has a invisible plane, so I can go anywhere I want. And Wonder Woman was really perfectly created as a female superhero, because she has these bracelets, um... she has -- she has a super weapon which is jewelry! Beautiful golden jewelry, that she can deflect bullets. You know, its not like she goes "whirrr!" and the bullet goes away, no, she gets jewelry, make the jewel-- the bullets go away. She also has the lasso of truth, so no one can lie to her. She's the perfect female superhero.


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