Eva Green covers the June issue of InStyle magazine to promote her psychotically witchy role in Dark Shadows, and she looks amazingly beautiful as always. Again though, Eva’s talking about how inferior she feels in this world, and one gets a sense that she is indeed as insecure as she claims. Of course, it’s hard to believe that anyone who played Vesper Green is shy and socially awkward, but that’s Eva’s shtick, and she’s sticking with it. Perhaps she grew up being teased a lot for her offbeat looks, and this carried over to adulthood. Regardless of her neuroses’ origins, at least Eva’s standing up to being told to lose weight for The Dreamers, which was her first film and one in which she appeared unclothed for a substantial amount of on-screen time. Go Eva! Here are some excerpts:

On looks in Hollywood: “It’s not all about physique and how beautiful you look. In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It’s awful. In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I’m from Venus or something.”

Women get the crappy roles: “It’s so boring to play the girlfriend. Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man. It’s quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I’ve taken are those. Lot’s of people put me in the dark category.”

She won’t diet: “Before my first film, the casting director asked me to lose some weight, saying, ‘On screen you’re going to look much fatter. I started drinking soups and then I was like, ‘I can’t do it, I can’t go on a diet. It’s hell, it makes you very depressed – food is so important to me. I couldn’t go on.'”

[From InStyle]

As a long-time follower of Eva’s weirdness, I seem to recall that she has a habit of comparing things to Venus. Just last year at Sundance, she described Park City, Utah as follows: “It’s amazing. When you land, you look like you’re on Venus or something; it’s completely mad. It’s beautiful.” By her verbiage, can we infer that she does think that things “from Venus” (such as herself) truly are weirdly beautiful, or does she merely compare feeling alien to being from Venus? I’m overthinking this. All I know is that Eva is absolutely gorgeous and does great in roles where she plays the devastatingly hot freak. She may not get as much work as other actresses, but she’s clearly in a position to make these roles really count.

Now about this InStyle photoshoot. Eva looks perfectly lovely, and for the most part, she is styled quite well here. That cover though … is fug.

Photos courtesy of InStyle