Hi everyone!

Happy new year! Thank you for your sincere holiday wishes and the
lovely poster/project some of you sent to me. It is truly special and I
am proud to put it up in my house. I can see how much time and care
went into creating it and that really touches me! It made my holiday
THAT much more special!

Since the new year I've been back on the set of "Dragonball." In
addition to working in Durango, we've been shooting in some pretty
remote yet stunning locations. So, I've been litterally "out of range"
for a few days at a time. We shot in Mexiquillo, about 2 hours outside
of Durango where the landscape is amazing and looks - in places - much
like the forests of New England. The dense green trees reminded me of
New Hampshire and Maine, and made me feel very at home. The sunrises and sunsets are really spectacularly beautiful..
Mexiquillo is pretty remote, and there weren't any hotels around, so we
were actually "camping" in log cabins, all together. It was exactly
what you'd imagine, campfires at night with smores and kumbaya... Okay,
maybe not kumbaya, but we did do the smores! Its been a LOT of fun,
especially bonding with the cast. All the actors get along great! After only a few weeks shooting we already have inside jokes and pretty
much know each others life-stories.
I've been listening to some harder music to access the edge inside
me to bring to the character, some Lincoln Park and Dream Theater.
I'm enjoying developing the character and training, learning to ride a
motorcycle has been thrilling.. Its manual, so I've been learning all about clutch and throttle (don't laugh, this is all new to me!) And I think I'll be able to drive a stick-shift car after this film too!

Right now I am writing from a helicopter (with my costars, Chow Yun
Fat, his lovely wife and Joon Park). We are on our way to the desert
where we will be filming for the the next few days. I am the lucky one
who gets to sit up front with the pilot (who was very careful to
instruct me not to touch anything; knobs, controls or otherwise) Chow
and Joon are taking pictures in the back and we are having a lot of
fun. The landscape is alternating between, rolling sand dunes, green
mountains dotted with cactus and farms layed out in geometric order
with terracotta colored earth. I want you all to see what I see, so I'll
upload some pics later when I can connect my camera to my laptop.
Also, I'm attaching a picture from the cockpit right now!

On another note, l want to say how deeply saddened I am by Heath
Ledger's sudden passing. I did not know him very well, but well enough to see
he was a kind man, a devoted father and an immense talent. My heart
goes out to his family and his young daughter in this time of grief. He
will be so missed.

Love,
Emmy