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October 5, 2001 — 'Paul Fischer' interviewed Kate Beckinsale in LA. Here's a clip:

Kate wanted to do the film "in order to work with John [Cusack] who is utterly brilliant." The pair initially met when the actress met Cusack while he was casting High Fidelity. "I was gigantically pregnant at the time and sailed in like a ship. I gained 65 lbs when I was pregnant with Lily. People assumed I was having twins. At five months, people were convinced I was due any day." Cusack didn't cast her then, but convinced the producers of Serendipity that Kate might make an ideal leading lady. Thus Serendipity, which first came to both actors "very sketchily", turned out to be the film they did. "It has a romantic, old world feel about it that I responded to."