Born in 1985 in Canada, Julia made her start in reality shows and online TV talk shows before being cast as one of the leads of 2009’s “Bitch Slap.” In 2009 she starred as Agent #1 on “The Phone,” but it was her motion capture work for the “Resident Evil” video game series that established her popularity and fanbase. As a teenager, she modeled in Japan and is now living on the west coast, continuing to expand on her acting talents.
Through the years she has landed a bunch of roles of various television series. She served as the character model for Jill Valentine of the 2002 Resident Evil Gamecube video game. She hasn’t had that breakout role yet to make her a household name but we will keep an eye out for this beauty.
She’s still best known for her sizzling scenes in “Bitch Slap” opposite Erin Cummings. We interviewed Erin about her steamy sex scene with Julia and she discussed prepping for that scene in detail:
Yeah, well, first of all, since this was Julia’s first film and I’ve been going at this for almost a decade now, we had a really great dialogue back and forth about, y’know, just certain expectations and things. Our trailers…we actually had a door that connected our trailers, so we would a lot of times have the door open, and we would have lunch together, and we really development a friendship. I’m not saying that we didn’t develop the same friendship with America, but it was definitely a different level. I think Julia and I became really close during the filming, but we really got a chance to know America (Olivio) a little bit better and on a different level once we’d wrapped and started doing publicity. She’s really nothing like her character. (Laughs) Thank God! But, yeah, Julia and I got to know each other and felt very comfortable with one another. But for me, anytime that I have to do any sort of sex scene or anything physical like that, even if it’s a fight scene, I like to be very vocal with the actor that I’m working with and go, “Okay, what are your personal boundaries? What are you comfortable with? What’s the intention behind this scene?” I rented a couple of episodes of “The L Word” and actually, y’know, looked at a few of the scenes and how they were done, and I showed them to Rick and Eric and asked, “Is this kind of on the level of what you’re looking for?” And Julia and I watched it, and I asked, “Would you feel comfortable doing this? Would you feel comfortable doing that?” So we did kind of have a dialogue beforehand, which I think is, for me, the best way to do it. It’s what I did with Julian McMahon on “Nip/Tuck,” and it’s what I did with Andy Whitfield on “Spartacus,” and I think it allows for much more freedom when you’re shooting, because you know what the boundaries are and you know how far you can push things without having to worry that you’re in some way hurting or offending your co-star.
You can see that steamy scene in this video along with more clips of Julia as Trixie in “Bitch Slap.”
Julia on the Screen
She was Jill Valentine in “Biohazard,” the 2002 “Resident Evil” video game. Lately, she attracted loads of attention with “Bitch Slap” and appeared in the 2009 reality show, “The Phone.”
Julia Says
On being driven:
“You can be gorgeous, but if you don’t want to work for it nothing is not going to happen. No one is going to knock on your door and offer it to you. Nothing comes to you on a silver platter. You have to earn your success, and earning it for yourself makes it more rewarding in the end.”