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Selma Blair: From Hellboy to Molly Shannon

Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 1:06 PM PDT by Marc Malkin

Ondrea Barbe for LA Confidential Magazine

Someone get Selma Blair a Hooters baby tee and a pair of Daisy Dukes!

Believe it or not, the Hellboy II: The Golden Army star once dreamed of straying for a moment from acting to show off some T&A in a music video.

"I wanted to be the cheesy pretty girl in a video," Blair says in the new issue of Los Angeles Confidential magazine, adding, "I want to be the air-brushed girl, like in an Aerosmith video. Glamorous, sweet, pretty, sexy...Everything I'm not seen as."

While that's debatable, her new sitcom role will probably increase the indulgence factor.

Selma stars as Molly Shannon's self-absorbed spoiled daughter in the upcoming Kath and Kim. "I was in Budapest for six months shooting Hellboy II, getting tired of being away on location so much," she remembers. "My life seemed really fragmented. I wanted to stay in one place longer. So I thought it might be nice to go and do a TV show."

Even so, Blair opines that producers and the network may have regretted her casting after watching her recently promote the series to potential advertisers. "You're selling soap!" she explains, with a laugh. "I'm not a good soap salesman. I'm not a good anything salesman...So it's like, 'Oh, God, they might not be happy that I'm on their team.' I'm not good with the forced smile."