Olga Kurylenko is the actress you remember as James Bond girl from ‘Quantum of Solace’ movie, as well as the female lead in ‘Oblivion’ with Tom Cruise. She is Ukrainian and recently told KP.ua about her life in the spotlight and some peculiar food preferences.

Olga Kurylenko loves pelmeni

The meaty dumplings similar to Italian ravioli, but with a much larger meatball inside, in the traditional Russian recipe are frozen and kept in the freezer. According to the star of ‘Quantum of Solace’, she always has a pack of pelmeni in her fridge.

Even when she is filming, she loves to have some Ukrainian or Russian food that she is accustomed to, for snacks.

The actress is also fond of the Ukrainian borsch, which is a soup made of cabbage, potatoes, onions, carrots, and beetroot. Normally it’s made on a broth made of meaty bones, but it could be a vegetarian dish as well.

Kurylenko is also fond of buckwheat, which is extremely popular in both Russia and Ukraine. The Russian stores in western countries stock it, but foreigners find the taste strange and cannot understand how someone may enjoy it. It’s quite dry, but very healthy, and could be cooked in a way similar to rice, as a fluffy side dish or made into a pudding-like porridge. It is great with and poultry or meat, or even by itself. Russians sometimes simply add cold or warm milk to cooked buckwheat and eat it in a way similar to a breakfast cereal.

Gingerbread cookies and marinated fish called ‘sprat’ are other treats she savors coming to her hotel room after a day at the set.

Having left her home town of Berdyansk for Paris catwalks at the age of 16, the road towards co-starring in top Hollywood blockbusters wasn’t always easy, she recalls. Even though she lives in Europe for the last 24 years, she still feels like she is a foreigner there. However, she feels comfortable in France, America, and UK, where she now lives in London.

She is a teacher of arts by education and her mother is a primary school teacher. And she really knows how to fight bad guys, doing a lot of fighting in movies herself.

Can you believe this hot Ukrainian star recently just turned 40? An amazing success story for a regular Ukrainian girl from Berdyansk.

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