Kim Raver Talks About Night at the Museum And 24 the Movie You may be used to seeing Kim Raver keeping her cool under extreme stress on 24 . You'll see her do more of that in her new series The Nine , but what might be surprising is watching her be funny. She’s got a role in the upcoming holiday comedy Night at the Museum , and we’ve got the scoop: What is your role in Night at the Museum ? "It’s really funny, one of the funniest projects I’ve ever worked on. Ben Stiller is really a delight.o I play the ex-wife of Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd plays my fiancé. Literally [I was] doing a scene with them while simultaneously I was shooting 24 and [The Nine ], so it was like this heavy, emotional and then to go to New York and just... Basically we couldn’t stop laughing." Do you also get to be funny? "Yes. I mean, Ben is the funny and Paul Rudd is the funny, I’m more of the straight woman - but there’s definitely a wacky side to me." Was that a nice break in between doing 24 and The Nine ? "It was so great for me to go back to New York where I’m from and have that great release. I have never laughed so hard in my entire life with Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd. It was great and in a way, sometimes the more I work, the more it just - it’s like being in great shape. It’s easier to run a marathon when you’ve trained and you’re in shape, as opposed to just kind of getting up and deciding that you’re going to run." Will you make it into the 24 movie? "They’re doing the film this summer. The perfect scenario is keep Audrey alive throughout this season. I’m committed to The Nine and happily, and on hiatus join 24 and do the film with them." Bruce tells me unmetered vps for you Do you think a 24 movie is a good idea without the real time aspect? "I think the Jack Bauer concept and the 24 concept and Kiefer Sutherland along with the writers, it’s just an unusual and remarkably well-written, well-acted show that I think as a film, it’s just getting more of a great thing. I think it’s a great thing and I think it being a little different is important. And I think it’s a very smart move because it’s a different medium, so they’ve got to adjust it a little bit. I really see, especially after season five, it’s really reached out to an even larger audience this last season. So a movie would just expand that even more. I think, of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a great experience for people." In The Nine , Kim Raver plays one of a group of survivors of a hostage crisis. As she and the other eight people struggle to resume their normal lives, we will see flashbacks every episode to the crisis, revealing more and more what is really going on within each character. Raver sports a new look, from long brown hair in the flashbacks to a short crop in the main storyline, both different than the composed executive blonde of 24 . I see wordpress host and support Did you change your approach from a thriller to straight drama? "I think it’s really character driven and I think, in a way, 24 is as well. I think that’s what’s so compelling about 24 is that yes, there are explosions and it is a thriller, but I think that what draws you to 24 is that it’s about the characters and about the relationships, and it’s about what happens in that day and how it affects them. That’s very similar to The Nine . It’s about the characters, who they are. So I used that experience, I used my theater experience because that’s really, really telling a story when you’re doing theater. So there’s actually a similarity Do you have an affinity for these intense thriller/dramas? "I don't know. It’s kind of what you’re playing in the moment. Then people go, ‘Oh, well, she can play that.’ It would be great to see people see the comedy and be like, ‘Oh yeah, Kim’s good at comedy.’ So I think people feel safe who are hiring you when they know, they’ve seen that that’s something that you can do. I enjoy it, I love it, I love playing complex, multi-layered roles and I get to act with people like Kiefer Sutherland and this cast from The Nine . But it also was great to go and work with Ben Stiller [in Night at the Museum ]." Could you do both shows? "Ideally, I love working on The Nine , I love this character. I’m in it fully. Do I love working with Kiefer Sutherland and Jon Cassar? Yes, and I hope that continues as long as it’s still there, as well as in other things." Have you ever been the victim of a crime? "Well, this is the extreme of the extreme, but I definitely... I’m born, raised New Yorker and I was in New York and very close to the Twin Towers. So yes, 9/11, I mean, I was making peanut butter sandwiches for I think infants the night of, [and I was] along the West Side Highway handing out water and food to the paramedics and firefighters that were going down the West Side Highway. I have a truck and I piled in 10 or 12 nurses and doctors and took them down to Ground Zero. I’m reluctant to talk about that because it’s just such an enormous example of it, but yes." Did you form bonds with people from that event? "Yes. More so in the extent, the people I worked with, like the advisors who were police chiefs and fire chiefs and paramedics, and talking to them afterwards and going through that with them. But the people that I met that night, because I wasn’t in the Twin Towers... I think that would be very different. This was more of me being on the outside and helping. So the bonds were definitely created, which, I think because of the event with certain people, and certain family and certain friends who we had to get through it together." redhead real dating cougars forum Is that your hair in the show? "That’s a wig. This blonde is leftover from 24 . We’re working out now how we’re going to, because I go in the flashbacks long, and now it’s short, so there’s a lot of wigs that we have to deal with." What’s your favorite wig? "I love them all. That’s what’s kind of great now, to completely change it up. When I put on that long, long, brown wig, it just makes you feel different. You move different, and so that was great, to immediately have that thing for Kathryn." Did you cut your real hair to accommodate the wig or for your own style? "I think it was a combination of I knew I was going to go into a long-haired look and hopefully for a while, if this show goes as long as we all hope, and after being on 24 where literally you cannot change - I couldn’t even pierce my ears. You can’t change a hair. So I wrapped 24 and I wrapped this and I just went to...I have this amazing hair stylist, Laurent, and I said, ‘Go for it. Cut it.’ It was just this great liberating moment where it was sort of what we were talking about, where I was doing something just for my own style."