Romijn-Stamos discusses cloning, plugs 'Godsend'

The actress sees the good and the bad in cloning.
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Rebecca Romijn-Stamos spends her down time taking hikes with her dogs.
"That's what I do whenever I have free time, I hike with the dogs," says the model-turned-actress in an interview as she's cuddling up to her new toy poodle, Better. "I have two German shepherds at home, and I hike with them in the mornings. And I do Pilates."
She adores her dogs, and now, after doing the movie "Godsend" -- a thriller about cloning -- she wonders if she'd ever do that if she had the chance.
"I have an 11-year-old German shepherd at home and he's the love of my life. It breaks my heart to think about losing him, and if I cloned him would it really be the same dog? It's almost like it's a simpler version of the original. It doesn't seem right yet -- it's a little scary."
Scary tale
"Godsend" is a scary tale of a couple (Romijn-Stamos and Greg Kinnear) raising a young son in the city. When he is killed in an accident and a mysterious doctor (Robert DeNiro) offers them the chance to replace him, they move to the country to raise a clone of the boy.
The results are horrifying. But that hasn't stopped the actress from wanting children of her own.
"I would like to have children within the next four or five years, certainly," the actress says. Recently, however, she and her husband, actor John Stamos, announced they are separating after five years of marriage. Emotionally unable to talk much about the break-up, the actress continues to give interviews promoting "Godsend" and her other recent film "The Punisher," which she appears in with John Travolta and Tom Jane.
Still hoping
Despite her marital woes, Romijn-Stamos still contemplates being a mom. She plans to take a year off from acting when she has a child, and isn't worried about losing the baby fat.
"I've done Pilates for a long time and I eat really well so I'm not concerned with that. The human body is a pretty amazing thing and pretty adaptable," she says.
"I doubt that I'll ever be a mother of a cloned child, and certainly hope I won't be. I don't have a child and I can't imagine how painful it would be if I did lose one," Romijn-Stamos says. She understands why her character decides to clone her child and becomes super-protective. "She goes into protective lioness mode, full of denial."
The actress has developed ideas about cloning. "It's far from being a perfect science, and certainly this movie touches upon that idea," she says. "I don't think the idea of cloning human beings is a very good idea, but we met this doctor when working on this movie who's working on cloning organs and he's getting really close, and I think that's great for health reasons."