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Busier than a hooker on Valentine’s Day last week, I assigned Drew Turney the (not-so-difficult) task of talking to the lovely Rachel Nichols for me. Nichols, who you’ll know from TV-ville (“Alias”, “The Inside”) was in Sydney to promote the comic-book inspired “G.I Joe” – and in this one-on-one chat with Moviehole’s Drew, you’ll get the full low-down on it. Enjoy the chat…

Drew here, Is she just another hot babe clad in black leather in a tentpole toy movie or something more? After some ‘I know her, she’s that girl’ roles in everything from teen chick flicks (Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2) to sci-fi (Alias, Star Trek), I ask just who Rachel Nichols just who she thinks she is…

Drew: How hands on were you in the production?

Rachel: Very much so. Stephen [Sommers, director] loves to put the actors in the stunts and scenes as much as possible and I did everything they’d allow me to. It was really hard work but all of us got along so well that it didn’t feel as hard as it was and we had a really good time.

Drew: There were obviously a lot of digital effects in the film, so how many stunts could there possibly have been for you to take part in?

Rachel: You’re right there was a fair amount that had to be CGI but people don’t realize how much was actually real. The sequence where there are cars and hummers flying through the air? We actually did that. I think we set some sort of record for launching the most cars into the air for any movie. There were a lot of real explosions and there was a lot of real water, believe or not.

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Rachel and her G.I. Joe cast mates attended a photocall earlier today in Berlin, Germany and we now have photos available here in the gallery. She looks stunning as always. Enjoy!

A trash-talking DJ set off Sienna Miller on Tuesday with a flurry of insults.

Adam Richard interviewed the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra villainess and co-star Rachel Nichols on the Australian “Matt & Jo” radio show, and it didn’t take long for the conversation to head south.

After the DJ referred to Nichols as “the green b**** from Star Trek” and referred to one of their scenes as a “scrag fight,” he asked Miller if she’d been cast because she was a real-life bad girl.

“Don’t you dare even go there,” Sienna responded. “And no, I’m an actress. I don’t think I am a bad girl, but thanks for calling me that … d*****bag.”

Richard then asked Nichols about her stint on Alias, where she worked alongside Balthazar Getty, who had an infamous fling with Miller last year. Getty was married at the time of the relationship.

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The cast of G.I. Joe attended a photocall today in London and the first avaiable MQ images are up. Rachel looks really beautiful!

Rachel Nichols will appear on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 7, 2009.