Art Streiber/Popular MechanicsPopular Mechanics has never been hotter!
Olivia Munn graces the cover of the mag's February 2015 issue, and inside its pages, the Mortdecai star gets geeky talking about her love for gadgets and also shows off some serious cleavage.
Don't be confused by the 34-year-old actress's feminine curves, though—she's a total tomboy.
"My sisters were always doing makeup and curlers, and I wasn't interested in that," she recalls. "As early as I can remember, when we'd all be kicked outside for the summer, my brothers and I would make a huge fort and string out the electricity from inside and build an air-conditioning unit. In the winter we built igloos. We made them so perfect that we'd be sweating inside. For fun, occasionally we'd decide to do something like make our own batteries out of pennies. We'd just create."
These days, her older brother "makes motorcycles," and her younger brother is an engineer. "He recently went back to school for his master's in physics," she says proudly.
As for Olivia? She's hosting the mag's "Incredibly Special Effects Awards" in the February issue. In addition to that, she tells the mag proudly that she "did do my own stunts on Mortdecai."
"I learned how to ride a horse. They told me I had to jump out of a story-and-a-half window," she says. "They said, we've got a stunt double, but why don't you just see if you can do it?...I grew up doing karate and gymnastics and everything, so there's a part of me that likes the challenge...Later I had to ride in on this horse at full gallop through a very narrow path and trees coming up over us and land literally on a dime and jump off the horse."