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"  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always been interested in animal behavior,&amp;quot; reveals Isabella Rossellini. This should come as no surprise to Sundance Channel viewers who witnessed the iconic Blue Velvet actress enact the mating rituals of various insects and marine life in Green Porno, which premiered in 2008. Rossellini proves she knows a thing or two about seduction in the series&amp;#039; new spinoff, which spotlights the sexual proclivities of ducks, salmon, snakes, and other assorted fauna. Rossellini chatted with us about the inspiration for Seduce Me, which airs on May 25th and can be viewed online now (click here to watch the first five episodes). \u2014Erin Clements  How do you choose what animals to feature? We try not to repeat the same courtship. Some animals sing songs, like birds. They have a competition to attract females or to scare the other males away. Frogs also use songs, so we&amp;#039;d choose either the bird or frog. Spiders grab the females and tie them down before mating to make sure they&amp;#039;re not eaten, because spiders are very aggressive and eat anything that shakes their web. Deer obviously have antlers and that&amp;#039;s another strategy\u2014a showcase of beauty and strength and ability. I choose one animal for each strategy, so that I can illustrate all the different ways of seduction.  Which episode is your favorite? I think the duck came out really beautifully. I was concerned that showing my face with the body of the duck attached as a hat wouldn&amp;#039;t integrate me well enough with the cutout ducks. We don&amp;#039;t know what looks good until we put all the elements together on set. In the bed-bug episode, I very much liked the dollhouse setup, how we zoomed in from the neighborhood to the bed. It made me think that I could do other animals that live in our houses, and start each with the zoom-in to the dollhouse\u2014cockroaches, silverfish, and all the bugs that live in our apartments. When I watch my films there&amp;#039;s always something that gives me another idea. Which creature was most difficult to depict? I&amp;#039;ve wanted to do seahorses for a long time, because the male gets pregnant and that&amp;#039;s so cute. But there&amp;#039;s so much beautiful footage on the existing animal that I don&amp;#039;t want to compete with, even if our costumes are very funny. You can go on Youtube and see seahorses courting, mating, and dancing, because they&amp;#039;re easy to film in an aquarium and they don&amp;#039;t modify their behavior in captivity, like a lot of animals do.  How much input do you have on the costumes? The original idea comes from me. For example, for the salmon, I said that I&amp;#039;d wear just a headpiece and my body would be in a blue leotard and the background would be painted the same blue so it looks as if it&amp;#039;s all water. Part of the fun is that you can see the tricks. We&amp;#039;re not trying to make special effects that blow your mind. And then I write a script where I explain the behavior and what I need on set. What do you want to accomplish with the series? I see myself as an entertainer, not an educator. But I am always complimented when people say &amp;quot;I laughed, and then I went, `Oh I didn&amp;#039;t know that about that animal; I learned something.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  There&amp;#039;s another season coming in August. What can we expect to see? We&amp;#039;re going to do seahorses and pipefish, spiders, deer, and dolphins.  What have you learned about animal courtship that surprised you most? The variety\u2014that anything goes! Anything you think is absurd and could not exist, in fact, does exist. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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