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If you're looking for a non-CGI movie with more drama and action than dialogue, then “Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever” might be just the ticket. As Lucy Liu says about her character, “Sever is somebody who doesn't talk a lot. She has about 15 lines in the whole movie and she's very intense.” Words would just get in the way of Liu's character who is basically a lean, mean, fighting machine.

While at the 2002 San Diego Comic Con, Liu summed up Sever by stating, “She basically has been betrayed and she goes back out and she wants revenge. She doesn't want revenge in any other way but with blood. She's an ex-agent of an agency where she was adopted as a young child and trained to kill people. There's no emotional value, no sensitivity, there's nothing - you just kill. That's what she was brought up to do. The whole movie is about her and her revenge. Antonio [Banderas] gets in the way of that revenge. She has to get through him to get to whatever else she needs to get to.”

It was co-star Antonio Banderas who suggested Lucy Liu for the role of Sever. Though the part was originally written as a male character, director Kaos (a shortened version of his last name - Kaosayananda) was able to convince the studio to switch it to a female, to achieve a better dynamic between the two adversaries. Changing the character into a woman had little impact on the script as most of the dialogue and action sequences worked equally well when delivered by Lucy Liu.

While at the 2002 San Diego Comic Con promoting “Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever,” the enthusiastic crowd put a few questions to the actress. Here's some of the best questions and answers to come out of the “Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever” session:

How often did you accidentally get hit while filming "Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever?"
Lucy Liu: You get hit a lot (laughing). No, Ray [Parks] was great, he never laid a hand on me. When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. You fall and there are lots of things happening. I hurt my self pretty severely a few months ago. It's just the way of this business - you just get damaged. I don't think that anyone has gotten into a fight and not gotten hurt.

Director Kaos: Just to clarify, Lucy had wrapped by then - when she got hurt.

How difficult is it for you to select your projects?
Lucy Liu: It's very difficult for each person; it's about trying to have your work recognized in however way you can when you first start out. It's a very difficult place to be appreciated in. One of the things that you have to look out for is becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing. You have to slowly include the audience and also make sure that your work is being appreciated.

I think that ultimately being Asian in this business is something that you have to consider because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, “I can't see you with a Caucasian person.” People are afraid and they don't think the public is smart enough to understand that this is America and that there's all kinds of people out there. The studios keep putting out the Wonder Bread and what they think is safe. The audience - including myself - when I go to see a film I'm a layman and I think, “Do I enjoy this? Are they testing me? Are they activating my brain in any way?” Sometimes I think they are afraid the audience isn't going to be smart enough to figure it out. It's like, “Give us a break. We're smart enough to figure it out.”

Are you interested in any superhero type of roles?
Lucy Liu: I had some things that came up and again, they were concerned about the racial issue. I think they were possibly thinking about Electra but they thought it was not a safe issue to go 'Asian,' unfortunately. I think that ultimately they made good choices because the people that they chose were really good and they are going to be excellent, and satisfy the audience. You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward. You have to hope that you don't have to wear a mask and you don't have to put prosthetics on your face to make yourself look believable. I think that you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about. “Spider-Man” was an amazing movie. It was about someone who was just a human being.

You're working with Quentin Tarantino on “Kill Bill.” What's that shoot been like?
Lucy Liu: It's been really intense. We were shooting in China a couple of few weeks ago, and we just got back. We're at the studio in Beijing shooting the interiors. Basically we were there [China] for sort of the history of Beijing and all the movies that were shot there. Quentin is doing an unbelievable job directing all these different styles of martial arts.

I think that the movie is going to be an homage to all the martial arts movies and all the old school movies that are out there combined, plus some modern day. I think it will be unbelievable and pretty amazing. It's going to be Quentin Tarantino-style so it's going to be pretty sweet.

Can you talk about your infamous fight with Bill Murray?
Lucy Liu: The press really blew that whole thing out of proportion. If it had been my decision to not have Bill Murray be in the sequel that we are shooting right now - I don't have that much power. I think he is very talented and really fun. There was not a big thing that happened. It was a creative difference about the script. This whole movie there was some creative issues about the script and the writing. They had a scene for me and they had written it in a certain way. He came in and obviously he's a talented writer and he's very smart, and he had a writer that he was working with as well. On that day, production did not shut down because I was there that day and I worked the entire day. It wasn't that big of a deal. If I had punched him or anything, I would have remembered.

"Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever" is rated R by the MPAA for strong violence.