Q 6

PLAYBOY: So what's with their fetish about schoolgirl porn?

Catherine Bell: I don't know. It's nuts! I have a problem with cultures that are so sexually repressed that they end up becoming really perverted and twisted. You'd see men on the subways reading these comic books. You wonder, "Why are these men reading comic books?" And you look closely, it's these little schoolgirl drawings--the big eyes, little bitty noses, cute little perky lips and pigtails. I think it comes from all that repression. Let it out, let it go.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: You ski. Why is there animosity between snowboarders and skiers?

Catherine Bell: It's total snobbery. I haven't quite switched over to snowboarding yet. I've tried it a few times, but as a skier I know snowboarders just eat up the mountain, and they knock down skiers constantly. They're just going too fast or they're out of control and they don't know what they're doing yet. Snowboarding's tough to learn. When you haven't gotten it yet, you're all over the place. With skiing, if you lose your balance, you fall right where you are. I'm not sure what snowboarders think about skiers. They just think we're geeks or something.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: Which sport is harder?

Catherine Bell: Snowboarding is harder, but I started skiing a long time ago. I mean, when you fall while skiing, you don't really hurt yourself. When you're learning to snowboard, you catch an edge like you always do, and you don't just gently fall to the ground, you slam to the ground and either break a wrist or crack your tailbone. After two days of that, I was so bruised and banged up.

Q 9

PLAYBOY: You own a pair of Italian greyhounds. Can you train greyhounds with peanut butter?

Catherine Bell: Yes! They love peanut butter. It's really fun. You just give them a tiny bit and they do that [licking sound] thing forever. You can train these guys with anything. But I always feel so bad when I do that. One time I gave them a piece of dried apricot. I didn't think it was going to be a big deal, but it stuck in their teeth, oh my God, for an hour. It was so bad, trying to get it out. It's cruel. These guys are really smart. That's one of the reasons we got them.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: What can you say in Farsi that can't be translated in English?

Catherine Bell: You couldn't print it, because some Iranian would read it and be really offended [laughs]. My mom taught my husband all the swear words, and they're really bad. In Iranian, if you want to insult someone, you insult his family and his mother. How about madar jendeh. It basically means that your mother's a whore [laughs]. Kharcoseh is another zinger, and it refers to a woman's intimate body part, and not the nicest way to say it either. My mom taught Adam that word. She and I say that to each other because it's so over the top that it's like, "Kharcoseh! What are you doing?"

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Better name--Persia or Iran?

Catherine Bell: I like Persia. I know it's not Persia anymore, but Iran has so much shit attached to it now, unfortunately. It used to be a beautiful place. I never went after I was a baby, but my mom tells me it was like Paris. It was beautiful. My grandfather used to work for the Shah, so my mom lived like royalty over there.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: We read somewhere that men can say anything in front of you. Is that true?

Catherine Bell: Totally. You can ask my husband. The guys at work know this, too. If there is a pretty woman and the guys are talking about her, I jump right in. "Yeah! Check her out! She's really hot!" I don't have a problem. I don't get offended easily. It would take a lot. Yesterday, my husband bought a new video game, a fighting game with women with huge breasts. The graphics are amazing, and they fight and their breasts actually jiggle. Sometimes a girl's skirt flies up and you see her panties, and I'm like, "Cool! Check out her panties! My God! Her tits are huge!" You know, that's how I talk. I have no problem.