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Rachel Nichols feels “lucky” to have escaped serious injury while filming new movie G.I. Joe – because an onset explosion could have left her with permanent scarring.

The Star Trek actress admits she was left bruised and bloodied after shooting the action adventure with Sienna Miller, but the most terrifying onset moment came when a controlled blast accidentally set her hair on fire.

Nichols reveals she is grateful she was relatively unscathed – because the accident could have been a lot more serious.

She says, “We were doing a big fight sequence and I was doing a stunt where I had to launch myself over a console. Some squibs (miniature explosive devices) that were supposed to go off after I passed the console went off in my face; I landed with my hair on fire and had burned-off eyebrows and eyelashes on my right side. I was very lucky that it was all superficial. My hair grew back and I’m not blind!”

Source: Daily Star

The ultimate boys’ toy is coming to the big screen in the shape of GI Joe – the US version of the doll the British know as Action Man.

Actress Rachel Nichols, a former model who was seen earlier this summer as a green-skinned alien in Star Trek, is a member of the GI Joe team out to defeat the evil Cobra organisation, headed by Sienna Miller.

The 29-year-old plays Scarlett, whose ninja skills and talent with a crossbow come in useful when dealing with deadly assassins.

We caught up with Nichols last month on a day that began with her and her co-stars being sped down the River Thames for a photo opportunity at HMS Belfast.

That was quite an entrance you made this morning…

Oh my gosh, they did not adequately prepare us for this morning! It was so much fun: I’m from New England, from a world of boats and oceans, so I had a real laugh. It was hysterical: there were these little dinghies, we’re bopping through the water and all of us got drenched. It was a riot to start a day of press that way.

GI Joe is called Action Man in the UK. We don’t recall there being an Action Woman…

Scarlett is the one female GI Joe, the one girl in the group of boys, and I was very much the one girl in a group of boys when we made the film. She grew up with the boys, she’s a tomboy, she’s really smart and she beats a lot of them at most of their games.

The gallery is now up-to-date with the most recent images of Rachel Nichols promoting G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. I especially adore the press conference pictures!

I’ve added two new, stunning photoshoots of Rachel Nichols in the gallery. Enjoy!