Nat’s done a new interview with The New York Times to promote Tonight You’re Mine. In it, she mentions she has been filming a TV series called “Falcoln” in Madrid with Charlie Creed-MIles.

IN 2002 a teenage Natalia Tena snarled her way onto movie screens in “About a Boy” as Ellie, a London tough who takes an awkward schoolboy under her wing. In the decade since, Ms. Tena’s combination of ferocity and sweetness — with her swooping brows and penchant for salty language, she seems the kind of woman who would just as soon kick as hug you — has landed her supporting roles as Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potterfranchise and, more recently, as Osha in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

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But perhaps no character comes as close to the real Ms. Tena, 27, as Morello, the lead singer of a post-punk girl band in David Mackenzie’s “Tonight You’re Mine,” to be released on Friday, her first turn as a star. Filmed over just four and a half days at T in the Park, the Scottish music festival, this romantic comedy required Ms. Tena to be handcuffed to Luke Treadaway, playing a California rocker, as their alter egos performed gigs and navigated unsteady relationships while searching for the key that would release them.

In a recent phone interview with Kathryn Shattuck, Ms. Tena, who off screen fronts the band Molotov Jukebox, spoke about what happens when life and art collide. These are edited excerpts from their conversation.

Q. There’s a lot of noise in the background. Are you in a bar?

A. You’re ringing me at my bassist’s house. They’re all drinking red wine, and it’s pretty banging. I’ve had a pretty mental day. I just flew in from Madrid, and I hate flying. Usually I can keep my panic under my control, but I know it’s not good when I order whiskey halfway through the flight.

Q. Why were you in Madrid?

A. I was filming a series called “Falcon.” I play a police officer, the third in command. It’s an English production but set in Spain, with Charlie Creed-Miles.

Q. What’s a typical week for you?

A. Ah, honey, honey, I don’t have a typical week. That doesn’t exist, and I’ll tell you why. I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And because of my life I’m not able to do any of these.

Q. Where’s home base?

A. I live in London. Do you live in New York? I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I’m in love with that place. I’m obsessed with its sausages.

Q. So I take it the sausage-eating scene in “Tonight You’re Mine” was your idea. What was it like shooting that film in such a short time?

A. It was pretty much the most intense, guerilla-style filming I’ve ever done in my life. It felt a bit like being in the army, like being at boot camp. We didn’t know whether we’d fail or succeed.

Q. And being manacled to another person in all that mud?

A. Sometimes it was really difficult, being locked at the wrists. But we pretty quickly got the hang of it, like telling the person to slow down, or to wait up while you roll a cigarette, or that you need to go to the loo.

Q. Do you think being in a band helped you get this part?

A. Even though I was 25 when I went for the part, I spray-painted my hair red and played the accordion and did one of my songs, and I somehow convinced them that I could be a 28-year-old struggling with her band and her love life.

Q. Did the audience at the festival know you were filming?

A. No, they didn’t, at least at the beginning. At one point I had to get onstage and ask for bolt cutters amid 250,000 people. It felt terrifying being up there.

Q. Tell me about your own band.

A. It started with me and five men, and I fell in love with one of them, and then, from that, we built up the band. They’re literally like my family now.

Q. You’re of Spanish descent, and on a YouTube video a viewer commented that listening to you sing in Spanish was like “aural sex.” Describe your music.

A. Ah, dirty, sweaty, falling in love, having it music. Just in love, love, love. [The band’s latest CD, “Bang,” will be out on AWAL/Manna Songs on May 21.]

Q. How about Osha on “Game of Thrones”?

A. She’s a very low-energy yet wild woman from the north of England. I wish I could be a bit like her, but I’m not. She’s violent when she needs to be but not when she doesn’t. I’m a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.

Q. Is it difficult dealing with increasing fame?

A. Oh, honey, no one recognizes me at all. Is it hard? No. Because it doesn’t happen.

Nat’s film Clone (formerly known as ‘Womb’), appears to be being re-released under it’s new name. Here is a clip featuring Nat, in what looks to be a very sexual role:

Nat’s band Molotov Jukebox recently released the music video for “Tick Tock”, their new single from their upcoming 2nd album “Bang”, which will be out May 21 .

I’ve added some outtakes of Nat for her THAT Magazine shoot, including one never before seen ones. She looks hawt!

Photoshoot Outtakes > #16 – THAT

Nat attended the Warner Bros. Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter Grand Opening on March 31, along with a slew of other Potter stars including David Thewlis, Rupert Grint, Evanna Lynch, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright. How cute does she look? Love the colorful makeup, hairpiece and outfit, all matched with cowboy boots of course!

While in Madrid, Nat has done an interview with local news agency El Pais. Here is it, loosely translated from Spanish:

In the series A Game of Thrones(HBO) is Osha, perhaps the character of the group of savages more in need of affection. Her hair was pink, sometimes, in the film series Harry Potter : Nymphadora Tonks changed his appearance at will. Now it’s “a police súperpija had once been a nun.” Natalia Tena (London, 1984) speaks of Falcon Natalia Tena, last week in Madrid / PEREZ BERNARDO

detective series that rolls Canal + ]. In the growing film career of this daughter of Extremadura and the Basque emigrants to England, he brought his great passion: music.Or was it vice versa? Now visit Spain to present his band Molotov Jukebox . A sort of troupe Gypsy-London consists of six members exuded danceable rhythms. Tena arcodeón plays and calls the shots will the postmodern version of Mary Jesus and his Pajaritos?

Talkative, with a slight English accent, conveys the excitement of every good leader: “Molotov Jukebox has manybeats of cumbia “. Sam Apley (partner, violinist and founder of the band) musical tertiary citing debts. “He comes from a gypsy instrumentation but is a mixture of everything that can make people dance: calypso , funk ,swing … and we have Latin influences and Balkan definitely something. “There is nothing.

Prepare for an LP after summer. For now have brought seven songs (from his EPE Bang) to the launch party of the Mancha Pop Festival (to be held on 20 and 21 July in Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo). Spanish groups, Tena remains with Ojos de Brujo (“I saw them in Camden”) and ends up falling in love with The Bug and Delinqüentes.

Her loquacity is cut short when asked about the plot of A Game of Thrones . “Oh, I will not say anything. If sleeplessness something HBO going to call me immediately. Only I can tell you is a series of very high class and now I’ve seen the first episodes of the new season is like film . not know what they have done, because the same team. “ And the shooting? “Whenever I roll TV or sediment in a photo shoot cold step. The recording was a fucking cold in a forest of Belfast”.

The Tena thug streak earned him an acting career: “I got my first role because I got caught smoking in the boarding school on a Saturday afternoon. Was the drama teacher. He said, ‘can you enter this room?” .In that room held an audition for About a Boy (the 2002 film based on a book by Nick Hornby and starring Hugh Grant in Spain was called a Boy). “There were lots of kids in 10 years. I had dreadlocks and piercings … I was asked to do the test where it all started. I loved acting, but it looked like a pipe dream: I wanted to be a psychologist and make music. “

I got my first role because I got caught smoking at boarding

But if the performance of the staff Tena distracted at first, were also tables which put him in his hands his other great love: “I learned piano until age 16, but I hated it. Everything so hard, yet classic. Years later was in the Kneehigh theater group, in which all actors have to learn an instrument. We got to choose. I saw the accordion and I thought, ‘Where you been, my boy?’. I fell in love with this instrument … and this [nudged Sam]. whole summer I was giving the accordion, fucking all [makes honking noises]. “

Tena has not lost contact with Spain (“I need to come at least once a year”) and does not rule installed here: “If you become big enough to live where artist can give you the fucking win. That’s good, is it not “.

Nats Gypsy dubstep band Molotov Jukebox is currently in Spain, playing some shows and doing press there. You can see photos on MJ’s twitter. Here’s a candid of Nat for Esquire Spain:

Photograher Mike Massaro has done a new photoshoot session with Natalia, and taken some cool ones of Molotov Jukebox as well:

Photoshoots Outtakes > #17 – Mike Massarro

Bands > Molotov Jukebox > Shoots > Mike Massarro – March 2012