Hilary Duff and John Cusack promote their new politically charged movie, War, Inc., in the latest of Los Angeles Confidential.

In the Joshua Seftel-directed film, The Duffster plays potty-mouthed Eastern European pop star Yonica Babiak. Here’s what Hil had to say to the mag:

Your character speaks in a ridiculous dialect. Where did that come from? The first time I talked to John, he said, “You know, you have to have an accent.” The character is an Eastern European pop star. I didn’t even know where to begin. But the fun thing is, this place doesn’t even exist. Turaqistan is not a real country. So I played around and mixed a lot of things together! I talked in that accent as much as I could, even to my family and friends!

Did you really drop a live scorpion down your pants in the movie? I really did. It was so scary. I grew up in Texas, and we had plenty of scorpions, but I never had to put one down my pants before. And my pants weren’t that baggy, so I couldn’t get any space. I did it a couple times with it going down my leg and it was terrifying. The little thing kept doing backbends because it obviously didn’t want to go in my pants, you know? Everyone on the set was cheering!

Read the full interviews at LA-Confidential-Magazine.com.

War Inc. opens in limited released on Friday, May 23.

Some new movie stills have been released of tween queen Hilary Duff on the set of her new movie, War, Inc. co-starring John Cusack and Marisa Tomei (both pictured above).

Hilary, 19, filmed this movie in Sofia, Bulgaria and will be playing a European pop star, Yonica, who gets caught in an assassin’s scheme in a fictional Middle Eastern country called Turgastan. She even gets to shoot a machine gun in the film!

Said Hilary about War, Inc., “It’s off the wall and nuts and really smart and controversial and really proves the point. And I was so excited about it, like, ‘Gosh, can I do this? I don’t know if I can do this!’ Because you know what, when people won’t take a chance on you, you have like no confidence.”

War, Inc. will be released nationwide later this year.

Future Hilary Duff appearances:

• Monday, March 26 - Good Morning America
• Tuesday, March 27 - Live with Regis and Kelly
• Friday March 30 - The Tyra Banks Show
• Monday, April 2 - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Tuesday, April 3 - Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Tuesday, April 3 - Dancing with the Stars
• Thursday, April 5th - The Ellen Degeneres Show