After her nude role in Wedding Crashers and her spread in Playboy magazine, Diora Baird is one of the sexiest women working in Hollywood today. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, she plays the horny Alexis, who is tortured by the burgeoning murder/cannibal family that was first made famous in the seminal horror film of the ’70s.

UGO: We were talking to one of your co-stars earlier about how you go back to the hotel with all this blood on you.

DIORA BAIRD: It’s gross.

UGO: Are you at all worried that the maid will come in and find all this blood residue in your shower?

DIORA: I try to rinse off here in my trailer. But everyone at the hotel knows me by now because I always come in with gashes. The bellhops are like, “Oh, you got killed today. Wow, that’s cool.”

UGO: How are doing the scenes where you’re being tortured?

DIORA: It was really fun the first 15 takes. Then after a while, the blood just doesn’t taste very good and it’s sticky.

UGO: What does the blood taste like?

DIORA: Soap because blood is made out of corn syrup.

UGO: Did you have to scream in your audition?

DIORA: No, I didn’t.

UGO: How did they know you were going to be any good?

DIORA: This is the first time I’ve really been in a screaming thing. I don’t even know if I really can pull it off. We’ll find out.

UGO: Can you say how you get some of your blood on you?

DIORA: I basically get tortured the entire movie, in so many different ways. In the car accident I get pretty messed up. Then throughout the movie I’m really the only girl in the house so I’m like the doll that gets tied up. I’m tied to a hoe. The only reason why is because I tried to get away from the house. So they teach me a lesson.

UGO: You didn’t mind playing a character that tortured the whole movie?

DIORA: No, because it is a fun character. She’s kind of sassy and talks back and even in the midst of her being tortured she’s kind of like, “F you,” and “Get your hands off me.” So it’s been fun. She probably deserves a little bit of slapping around, the way her mouth’s been going.

UGO: Who does it?

DIORA: So far it’s been Sheriff Hoyt, R. Lee Ermey’s character. He’s vicious but great to work off of.

UGO: Is he ever really scary?

DIORA: Oh yeah. There’s a few moments where he’s completely taken me off guard. His character is very perverted. Next thing you know, he’s cupping my breasts and I’m like, “Okay, time to act.” It isn’t very difficult, because he is very creepy.

UGO: Do you have any love scenes in the movie?

DIORA: There’s a small scene in the beginning of the movie, where me and Taylor Handley, who plays my boyfriend, are in the motel room and I’m trying to seduce him. But he’s not into it very much so it’s a sad moment for my character.

UGO: How has it been working with [Leatherface] Andrew [Bryniarski]?

DIORA: He is really nice and really scary. When he gets into his character, I don’t really want to look him in the eyes. But he’s definitely very easy to react off and the screams just come to you naturally. He does this thing with his eyes, where they rolls in the back of his head and he licks his mouth. It’s scary.

UGO: Are you a horror fan?

DIORA: Not really. I’m very jumpy. They’re having fun on set with me. I jump and scream and they’re like, “Diora, you’re not supposed to scream just yet.” I’m like, “Okay.” So I have hard time watching. But lately in my hotel room at night I’ve been watching a lot of scary movies just to see how people act when they die.

UGO: What movies did you watch?

DIORA: I saw House of Wax and Skeleton Key. Whatever is playing in my room.

UGO: Can you take us through the logistics of being tied up?

DIORA: You have to have a lot of people scratch places for you when the time comes. I hum tunes.

UGO: Do they untie you between takes?

DIORA: Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

UGO: Have they ever left you on the set?

DIORA: No. That wouldn’t be very nice. Don’t give them any ideas, because they’ll probably be like, “Okay, we’re wrapped. All right, good night.”

UGO: What’s the song you hum?

DIORA: [Sings] Yes, please, I have to go pee [laughs].

I’m tied to this hoe and my hands are underneath it, so my body weight is crushing my hands. I just sit there and I kind of count the minutes. I can feel like little prickly things like and there goes the feeling in my hands. Then I look at them and the color starts to change. Then when I’m finally getting out of it, it’s the most painful thing because the circulation is coming back. I got rope burn from a scene where I get yanked out of a moving tow truck. I’ve got bruises everywhere. It feels like we’re doing an action movie. It doesn’t feel like– I’ve done so many stunts. But it’s been fun and I really enjoyed it.

UGO: When you’re watching this movie do you think you will you find it scary?

DIORA: Oh my god, yeah. I have a hard time watching the playback. It’s hard to see me covered in blood because it looks real.

UGO: What made you want to be a part of a horror movie like this?

DIORA: Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just one of those movies that a page of history.

UGO: Do you go home hoarse at the end of the day?

DIORA: I have for the last week or so. Lots of tea with honey.

UGO: Are you concerned about your voice?

DIORA: No, I think it’s kind of sexy [laughs]. I feel like I’m earning whatever it is that I’m earning. Hopefully it’ll be something in the end. But I don’t mind. I’ll have a bunch of scars, like, “That was from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” So it’s good fun.

UGO: Do you have any days when you wonder what you’ve done to yourself?

DIORA: Yep, the scene where they had the blood machine spray me.

UGO: A blood machine?

DIORA: Yeah, because somebody’s being sawed up. So they have this machine that just squirts out large amounts of blood. The director was like, “More blood. More blood. Scream more, more.”

UGO: You shot on October 31st, what was Halloween like?

DIORA: Everyday is Halloween for us. Everyone’s in costume. The surroundings are very Children of the Corn-esque. The house is not the warmest, coziest of houses. So it’s got that creepy vibe the whole time.

UGO: What was your reaction when you read the script the first time?

DIORA: I had nightmares. I had really bad night terrors that night. I thought that there was no way I would be able to survive this movie.

UGO: Are you going to avoid horror movies in the future?

DIORA: I can’t imagine topping this. I really think this will be it.

UGO: What have you got coming up?

DIORA: Accepted comes out in like April.

UGO: Who directed Accepted?

DIORA: Steve Pink. He wrote High Fidelity. It’s supposed to be really funny. I’m excited because it’s the opposite of this.

UGO: You had a pretty big summer with Wedding Crashers and the Playboy cover. What role did those have in getting you this part?

DIORA: What that did for me is it basically just got my face out there. Just like submitting headshots to every producer in town. I took a lot of meetings and have a lot of upcoming meetings. I think it just gave me more of a name. The industry’s very fickle like that and it gave me more star power.

UGO: Who knew Wedding Crashers was going to end up being such a huge hit?

DIORA: I didn’t think so. I really thought the movie was going to bomb [laughs]. I thought the movie was too racy because America is so prudish and conservative.

UGO: What was the movie you just finished shooting?

DIORA: It’s called Accepted with Justin Long.

UGO: What do you play?

DIORA: I play Kiki, who is this girl who’s trying to trying to change her life around. She dropped out of high school, became a stripper and now she wants to go to college. Then I become like the fashion designer and design the school uniforms.