With her statuesque beauty, Israeli-born actress Ayelet Zurer has made a strong impression in genre fare like Angels & Demons and Vantage Point and especially heavy, hard-hitting dramas like Fugitive Pieces, Adam Resurrected and Steven Spielberg’s Munich, in which she played Eric Bana’s sympathetic wife and served as his emotional mooring. Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion, then, represents a nice, unexpected change-up for Zurer, who plays Carmen, an exotic seasonal housesitter who ends up helping her employers (Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline) search for their missing dog, and in the process develops an unexpected connection with a member of their extended family, Bryan (Mark Duplass). I recently had a chance to sit down with Zurer one-on-one, and talk about the movie, Kasdan, psychic inclinations, and her role as Lara Lor-Van in Zack Snyder’s hotly anticipated Man of Steel. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here.