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Nicole
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For this uninhibited starlet, The Terminal is just the beginning

Nicole Rayburn knows full well what five little words-"a film by Steven Spielberg"-can mean for an actress's resume, so she's trying to keep an even keel about her role as a watch salesgirl in the Hollywood heavyweight's next movie, The Terminal. She even gets to snub Tom Hanks, who plays an airport stranded foreigner applying for a job. "I'm like, 'Dude, you don't even have a Social Security number,'" says the 27-year-old Florida native. It's certainly a switch from her debut in the Jackass-like reality flick Bar Fighter, in which


"Sometimes it's more comforting and nurturing to be with a girl."
she instigates actual bar brawls. "I'm very levelheaded now, but oh, did I have spunk in me for a while," she says. "I'm definitely a lover, not a fighter." Even so, it's back to the dive bars in the upcoming pool-hall comedy Kisses & Caroms, in which her bisexual billiards-shark character doesn't seem much of a stretch. "I really love chicks," she says. "Sometimes it's more comforting and nurturing to be with a girl. One lucky boyfriend did get to have threesomes with me." Instead of regretting those dalliances, Nicole simply wishes she'd jumped into showbiz at an earlier age. "I sometimes get frustrated that things aren't moving fast enough," she says. "Then I think of how many actresses never even get that first role, so I know everything's moving on its own course."