Bridgette Wilson: Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Bridgette Wilson talks Hollywood, and more importantly, Japan, where she is a full-fledged starlet.

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"They're so sweet--they don't accost you, intimidate you or make you feel uncomfortable." No, Bridgette Wilson is not talking about her famous co-stars, who range from Arnold Schwarzenegger (Last Action Hero) to Adam Sandler (Billy Madison). She's describing the Japanese, who have given her a recording contract. Wilson, whose screen appeal is tough 'n' spunky teen vixen layered with puckish Valley queen, may be just another sidekick chick in Hollywood films, but in Japan she's BIG.

Of course, she'd like to be BIG in America, and if she isn't yet, it's not for lack of trying. At 21, she's had her hand in almost every career pot that requires beauty--at 16 she was Miss Teen USA, then she actress, then a pop diva in the East. She's been famous. "I grew up in a family where everyone was encouraged to learn, so at a young age I taught myself how to read music and play the piano," she says. Next she'll go back to Last Action Hero territory to play kick-boxing spitfire Sonja Black in Mortal Kombat (the movie version of the popular video game) opposite Christopher Lambert. Any impressions of the newly single Euromagnet? "We did all of our own fighting," she says, smiting mysteriously, "so I had to learn a lot of new moves."

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Shana Ting Lipton