‘X’ Marks the Spots / Anna Paquin paints the town Rogue

In “X2,” Anna Paquin’s Rogue has the power to sap the energy from any human being she touches. It would’ve helped if the Oscar- winning 20-year-old had that talent in real life, too.

During breaks from filming last summer in Vancouver, “X2′s” cast and crew would organize “trust-building” exercises to help foster better working relationships.

In one such activity, Paquin and co-stars Aaron Stanford (Pyro) and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) cajoled crew members into a paintball game in the city’s outskirts.

“It was a chance for the crew to shoot anyone they didn’t like,” the New Zealand-bred actress said the other morning in Manhattan.

“They’d be like, ‘You knocked over 210 lightstands on the set the other day, so bam!’”

Paquin, who is taking a break from literature studies at Columbia to promote “X2,” said her objective during these outings was “to not get hit at all.”

Says Paquin: “I was terrible at aiming, so I’d just try to duck and hide and run. We’d come back to work with what looked like huge hickeys all over our bodies.”

Paquin was one of Oscar’s youngest winners, having snared a 1994 supporting actress trophy – at age 11 – for “The Piano.” She stores the Academy Award in her closet.

“I think my friends would find it awkward coming over and there’s this big Oscar sitting there,” she notes. “It’s wonderful, but it has nothing to do with my social life or my family life or my private life. And awards are a bogus concept in the arts, anyway.”

Source: Newsday / By Robert KahnÂ