NICOLE KIDMAN did it in The Others; Naomi Watts in The Ring. With Shutter, it’s Rachael Taylor’s turn to be the Australian starlet carrying a sizeable Hollywood horror-thriller. Like her compatriots, Taylor also gets the chance to act in her scary movie.

“I’m not really interested in being exposed just as, y’know, ‘le hot chick’,” the 23-year-old says matter-of-factly, her Tassie twang intact even though she has spent the past few years in Los Angeles. “I was kind of hesitant approaching it because I think sometimes you run the risk of being in pretty-blonde-female-in-haunted-house-running-away-from-ghosts kind of territory. I really felt Shutter has more to offer than that.”

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