Cube director Vincenzo Natali’s long-delayed sci-fi frightener Splice arrives in theaters on June 4. If you’ve felt inexplicably attracted to the film’s Sinead O’Conner-meets-Sil-from-Species creature, it’s for good reason.

Beautiful 31-year-old French actress Delphine Chanéac plays Dren, a hybrid female successfully spliced from human and animal DNA. Chanéac spoke about the role during a press junket for the film.

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Chanéac discusses the shock of seeing herself as the Dren creature, working out for the part (she goes nude), discovering she was the only monster in the movie, her costars, and learning English. She also comments on the thrill of making her U.S. feature film debut.

Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as the ambitious, albeit ethically-compromised, geneticists in over their heads after creating Dren. To see the film’s trailers, go here and here.