![]() When I was a teenager, I rented tons of ’80s cult films and fell in love with the awesomely cheesy movie Barbarian Queen (that Boris Vallejo painting is my favorite VHS cover of all time). As a kid, I was raised on Xena and She-Ra. Julianne Tura: I’ve always been intrigued by badass babes, especially tough, no-nonsense warrior women. Heavy Metal: What attracts you to the character of Taarna? We asked her for some pictures and before we knew it she was off to Bronson Canyon (that’s in L.A.) wearing the famous strapless and thigh-highs, stopping hikers in their tracks with her massive sword and modestly-sized Loc-nar. You don’t see nearly enough Taarna costumery-which is why we were glad to stumble across Julianne Tura, an actress and model who has the guts to carry on the Taarna tradition in an era dominated by superheroes and Slave Leias (not that we are against either). (By the way, Heavy Metal movie fans, there’s more to the movie than just the movie-step right this way for the 144-page Heavy Metal book and a sweet deal on the movie’s epic soundtrack.) Her name is Taarna, the alluring and fearless heroine of Heavy Metal, the movie, and in many ways the embodiment of what Heavy Metal is all about. In 1981, a swashbuckling valkyrie astride a pterodacto-chicken descended upon cinemas all over the world, and (non-kiddie) animated films have never been the same since.
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