THE DEADBOLT: At the premiere, how did your mother handle all of the violence in the movie?

BENZ: [laughs] My mom, she loved it. I mean, my mom doesn’t like action movies at all. But she’s sitting next to me at the premiere and all of a sudden I hear her go, "You get 'em Rambo." And it’s when he comes out with the big machine gun and takes everybody out. I mean, she was like, "Yes! Yes!" She was standing up and cheering. All of the producers, the Lionsgate people surrounding me, and there’s my mother screaming for Rambo, "Yeah, yeah!"

THE DEADBOLT: The pigs must have been fun to work with. Did you have to be around them a lot?

BENZ: Unfortunately, yes. It was scary because they’re pretty intense. While we were shooting the scenes, I was tied in the pig pen pretty tight at my request. I mean, I was tied by my neck and my hands. At one point the pigs broke through the little rickety fence and they came after me. You know, four 400lb pigs.

THE DEADBOLT: And they'll bite, won’t they?

BENZ: Oh, they will. Right before that, someone told me that if you smell like food they’ll just start eating you. [laughs] So it’s all I could think about, "I hope I don’t smell like food." I started screaming and I was kicking, trying to fight them off. They were trying to rush in to get me out of there and you hear Stallone go, "Keep the cameras rolling." I think on the DVD there’s a clip of where they pull me out and I’m laughing and crying at the same time. I knew I was safe but at the same time I was really scared.

THE DEADBOLT: Since you're a big antiques collector from all of the countries you visit, what did you bring back from Thailand?

BENZ: For myself, I bought a ring but it isn’t an antique. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to shop around. But I did bring back a piece of amber that was very old, as a gift for a friend of mine. It’s amber and silver, it’s beautiful.

THE DEADBOLT: Although Rambo was set in Burma, it's interesting that you're also involved with the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Can you fill us in on the work you do?

BENZ: Basically we are trying to free Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Burma. She’s been under house arrest for the past nineteen years. It’s the same people who worked on freeing Nelson Mandela and it’s protesting all of these human rights violations that are going on in that part of the world and taking a stand against the treatment of those people. It’s a brutal country, they have the largest child army in the world. It’s the most under reported war in the world and the longest running civil war. Basically, there’s been the media block out for a number of years. As of now we’ve seen more and more in the past year. In the Fall there was the incident with the Monks. But then there’s also the cyclone that hit and the lack of aid that’s being accepted and the fact that the Burmese government did not sound the alarm to warn the people that a cyclone was coming. It just tells you what a brutal country it is. I believe everybody should have basic human rights and it’s important to take a stand and raise your voice. I encourage everybody to go to the uscampaignforburma.org or burmaitcantwait.org and check it out.

THE DEADBOLT: On a diffrent note, what's it like to have a serial killer for a boyfriend? I mean, after two seasons on Dexter, how do you feel about he does?

BENZ: Oh, every man needs a hobby. Some men play golf, some are serial killers, whatever it takes to get him out of the house. [laughs] How do you think I would feel? I mean, he kills people. Yeah, he kills bad people, but he still kills people. Is it good or bad? I think that’s the intrigue of the show and sets it apart from any other show - it doesn’t answer that question. It leaves you to question, and I’m sure everyone’s answer changes seventy five times. I mean, the show lives in the gray. There’s so much media out there that force feeds us an opinion and an idea, so it’s nice to be challenged as a viewer, to have that gray presented to you and then you decide.