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"Everybody, of course, is wondering how that dress defied gravity," Minogue said. "I was saying [to reporters], 'Well, we had a team of professional stuntmen, we had harnesses, we had a couple of Alsatians, sticky tape ...' and they're like, 'It was tape, right?' Yeah — it was a couple of bits of tape.
"I managed to keep my modesty intact those two days of filming," she insisted. "It was funny. People have said, 'But you're not wearing anything!' and I'm going, 'I'm wearing more fabric than I've ever worn in my life in that outfit!"
Now that American audiences are suitably entranced, she won't have to do as much legwork to re-introduce herself over here — something she feared every time someone would suggest she conquer the States.
"I can't spend a year crossing America and going, 'It's not Kelly,' 'Karly,' 'Minoog,' 'Monogway,' starting at the very, very bottom," she said. "I don't mean any offense or harm — the boredom and repetition of that would drive me mad. I just thought, 'No, [my music is] not going to work there.'
"That's why I'm surprised," she continued. "We still had no intention on coming over, but radio stations picked up the song. This isn't launching our assault on America. It's more a case of, 'Hey, they're playing [my song].' You know, steps one and two were taken care of, and it looked like it was going to be a hit. I'm still in shock that I'm here."
The former child star has a lot to be shocked about — and thankful for. She began acting at the age of nine, eventually ending up on the Aussie soap "Neighbours" and recording on a whim. By the time she was 18 she was a massive pop star, going on to rack up hits like "I Should Be So Lucky" and "Better the Devil You Know" with Stock-Aitken-Waterman, the production team who also turned molehills into mountains with Rick Astley and Bananarama. She even recorded a hit single with her then-boyfriend and "Neighbours" co-star, Jason Donovan, who became a pop idol in his own right despite his terrifyingly bad hair. (Sound familiar?) Yet even with dogs like "Bio-Dome" and "Street Fighter" on her résumé, the acting bug still beckons.
"Acting was always on the agenda," Minogue said. "Singing, I've been sidetracked doing that for a long time, but over the last few years I've really felt a growing desire to get back and do more acting. To have a teeny, teeny little part in 'Moulin Rouge' brought it more to the forefront. I'm sure I'll be terrified acting again, because I haven't done it in so long, but I think that's a part of me that will happen again.
"I never intended to be a singer," she recalled. "I remember doing a demo tape when I was 17, three songs, the whereabouts of which are unknown at this point, so someone has got a demo of me where I sound like Mickey Mouse singing 'Dim All the Lights' by Donna Summer, 'New Attitude' by Patti LaBelle and 'Just Once' by Quincy Jones ... I sure picked them, didn't I?"
Sounds good to us.
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