Lucy Liu and Her Bubble Bath/Fight Nightmare

We've seen Lucy Liu in many movies and, in most cases, we were left with something after we exited the theater: if it wasn't with the impression her flexibility and fight skills left on our brains, then it was surely her nice curves and sexy body. But, this time, even she can't find an excuse for starring in 'Code Name: The Cleaner'.

Without bothering to go into details with this film because it's simply too boring and stupid to appeal to anyone than to teenagers who would laugh at any scatological joke, I'll try to sum up its sort of interesting plot. It focuses on Jake Rodgers (Cedric the Entertainer) who wakes up one morning with a dead FBI agent in his bed. Lucy Liu plays Gina, his girlfriend, while 'Desperate Housewives' star Nicolette Sheridan is Diane, a woman who says is Jake's wife.

The whole movie is based on Jake's amnesia and, had it been any good, it would have relied heavily on keeping the viewer constantly wondering: is Jake a special op agent or just a delusional janitor? Unfortunately for the producers, by the time that question is answered, no one really cares enough, having had to spend almost 90 minutes of bad and annoying jokes, mixed dozens of clichés and ridiculous script.

Either way, if there's one way to promote this action/comedy (it opened last week in the US), then that's definitely got to be having Lucy Liu talk about her bubble bath with Nicolette. You see, at one point, the two women get into a fight and, like any other normal guy, Jake begins to fantasize about them fighting in a different way: in a bubble bath, wearing sexy lingerie.

Although the scene comes off as very steamy on the silver screen, the 'Charlie's Angels' star says it was anything but that. As a matter of fact, she and Nicolette had to shoot and re-shoot it until the wee hours of morning and until it came out just right. And it was a nightmare, she says.

'First of all we shot it at like 3 in the morning. We were doing nights and you know we're in lingerie, and the scene was supposed to be in the kiddie pool. It's like, "Okay, kiddie pool, winter, lingerie - we need to put some bubbles in you know because it's more fun with bubbles". And bubbles kept disappearing. They just kept like literally dissipating, so they had to keep filling the thing with bubbles and shooting and shooting.'

But the late hour was not all the girls had to face that night, since it was also freezing cold and the water in the kiddie pool did not get any warmer as time went by. Lucy was the one that cut all the fun by saying: 'That's the end. You've got enough romping in the pool for you guys, for the fantasy moment'.

So, if you think you can spare $10 and one hour and a half out of your life, go and see 'Code Name: The Cleaner'. If you don't do it for the sake of comedy (because there is none in this movie), at least do it for Lucy and Sheridan's scene, to make them feel that it was worth going through all they went through.