Obviously, it is really prevalent in our country and I think that's part of what the movie addresses. We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions.

We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex. They really do belong together.

- How much did you improvise in this film?

I have to say that Liz wrote 99 percent of what you see onscreen. Everything is really there in the script. It was really a very funny script, always. I think that's what always carried us through

- What scene took the most takes for you?

I think the most was the pumpkin night, probably, when I was just screaming at the girls. We had a lot of pumpkin-related jokes that were going on for a very long time.

- Emma is quite a talent playing mini-golf. How is your own game and how much luck or how many takes did it take get those shots right?

I'm really good at mini-golf. Maybe not big person golf, but little person golf I rock. That was a lot of fun to shoot a the mini-golf place.

- Natalie you have had an amazing selection of roles across genres in recent years with Black Swan, No Strings Attached, Thor, Brothers and Your Highness. How do you feel about having such a mixed CV?

Well, you have heard the apocalypse is coming right? 2012? The Mayan calendar? I thought I'd get it all in, right before.

- I see. That explains it!

(Laughs) No, it was a great opportunity to get to do a lot of different things in a year. I feel like I've learned so much from doing all these different types of movies and back to back.

You bring the research and seriousness you do in a drama into something like Thor and you bring the humour and improvisational skills into something like Your Highness into Black Swan. It was a lucky order.

I did Your Highness, Black Swan, Thor and then No Strings. It was really interesting. I feel like I'm boring people with my face, but for an actress, it was really exciting to get to work on all these things almost back to back.

- Can you see similarities between Emma and yourself?

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character. I was excited because the character was written really specifically and I knew who she was as soon as I read her.

I think you always need to be able to relate to your character, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to understand why they do what they do. But you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

I don't think you identify your own personality with it. That's hard for me to answer.

- What was it like to go through the crazy award season with so many nominations and wins for Black Swan?

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want. You want an audience to connect to the thing that you make. So it's always really exciting to have that feeling.

- What was one of the great, but unexpected experiences of the award season?

We got to do a roundtable with all the actresses and it's so rare to get to sit with other actresses of all generations, people who are just starting out and people who have been doing it for 30 years, and hear everyone's experiences, hear what it's like for people to be mothers and actresses.

I wished that it wasn't on camera, but it was the coolest thing. I was like, 'If I could just have this experience, that's the best prize of anything to get to hangout with these other women that I admire'.

- What does an Oscar mean to you?

I think it's obviously a big honor. The company in which it puts you even to be mentioned among these other women is a huge honour and a huge compliment. So it's just an extremely flattering thing to be in and meaningful just to be among these other people that I respect and admire.

- What other projects do you have coming up?

I'm cooking a child (laughs and points to belly).

No Strings Attached is out on DVD & Blu-Ray now

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