Rosario Dawson has said that a Sin City sequel will honour Brittany Murphy should it get made.

Murphy, who played strip club worker Shellie in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 original, passed away in December last year.

“We’ve been talking about [the sequel] for so many years after we’d made the first one and to do it again, now she’s not with us anymore, that would be something we’d be very specific about making an acknowledgement to and making sure she’s a part of it,” Dawson told Digital Spy.

“She was such an integral part of the first film, such an amazing actress and person and we miss her and I think it would be a great opportunity to honour her by doing a second film and making sure we acknowledge that.”

Discussing the possibility of the follow-up, and her character Gail, Dawson said: “I really hope it happens. I don’t know how much longer I can fit into that outfit! I do get to wear a mask this time, which I am looking forward to.

“I love Frank and I love Robert and I love that world. I think it’s really insane and intense. It’s incredible to see how much that movie has affected things in so many movies I’ve seen since.”

Click ‘play’ below to watch Rosario talk Sin City 2.

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You can stream Rosario Dawson’s interview on “Conan” below.

“I’m completely shallow,” actress Rosario Dawson admits to iVillage exclusively about how she first met her “beautiful” boyfriend of three years, French deejay Mathieu Schreyer. “I just saw him at a table across from me at a restaurant. I was really upset because it looked like he was looking at my uncle and not me.” But when Dawson approached her now-beau to ask who he was looking at and he responded, “Well, actually, I’m looking at the both of you” in his French accent, the actress was “hooked.”

And while it may seem gutsy to approach a random man at a restaurant, she’s always been a risk-taker. Her new role in the runaway-train action-thriller Unstoppable pairs her with Denzel Washington, but the two didn’t actually shot their scenes together. “I do know Denzel and it really helped and informs those moments when I’m talking to white Denzel, who was his off-camera guy, who sounds exactly like him, but clearly doesn’t look like him!” she admits.

Watch our exclusive video (above) to find out why Dawson says she can be like a guy (hint: it involves crepes!) and her trick to surviving scary transportation scenarios.

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Like her “Unstoppable” co-stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson put in serious time and research to prepare for her role in the Tony Scott thriller about a runaway train. Dawson says she had the opportunity to meet with a real-life inspiration for her character: a female rail-yard manager.

“We had a great opportunity, we found this amazing woman, Mary Alexander,” Dawson recently told MTV News. Dawson said she got to pick Alexander’s brain, and peppered her with questions about proper rail-yard vernacular, protocol and technical terminology.

In the film, opening Friday, Dawson plays Connie, a headstrong rail-yard manager who, along with Pine and Washington’s characters, goes up against her corporate bosses in an attempt to stop a train loaded with explosive chemicals from careening into a small town.

“To do that and know it was a woman who went through it, I was like, ‘How did you work your way up? What did that feel like?’ ” she recalled asking Alexander. “You get those obvious clichéd things about a woman working in a men’s industry, but you also get this [explanation]: ‘Listen, this is a high-stakes situation, this doesn’t happen every day but when it does, you want capable people to be there.’

“To be someone composed and a leader in that, that’s what I wanted Connie to be,” Dawson added. “Not just a cool, spunky woman or a bitchy aggressive woman, but just the right person for the job.”

Actress Rosario Dawson answers five questions for USA TODAY.

Rosario Dawson dished on co-stars Chris Pine, Ed Norton and Robert Downey, Jr. on ‘Rachael Ray’ (weekdays, syndicated), recalling juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits with each.

In ‘Unstoppable,’ Dawson co-stars with Pine, who portrayed James T. Kirk in the ‘Star Trek’ reboot. She describes herself as an “uber-Trekkie,” but said she hid that fact from Pine. “He didn’t find out until we were doing press for the movie that I was a Trekkie,” she said. “He goes, ‘How did you hide that from me this whole time?’ [I said,] ‘I didn’t want to geek out on you.’”

Dawson remembered an intimate scene with Norton in ’25th Hour’ that got particularly uncomfortable. “I have to say it was pretty awkward when his girlfriend at the time, Salma Hayek, showed up on set [while] we’re doing the bathtub scene,” she said.

Dawson also said she had a physical scene on a rooftop with Downey in ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’ that may have gone a bit too far. “So, I get into this scene and I, like, knock him on his forehead,” she said. “And his eyes broke character. It was, like, ‘Do not touch my face.’ I was, like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to get thrown off the roof right now.’”

One of the sexiest stars in Hollywood is trading her SIN CITY leather to take the helm of a runaway train this November. Flanked by co-stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson plays Connie Hooper, a dispatcher who needs to stop an unstoppable train.

Based, in part, on the true story of two railroad workers from Ohio, UNSTOPPABLE pits Dawson, Pine, and Washington against a runaway train carrying enough combustible and poisonous materials to destroy a city. Dawson’s no wallflower though. While the boys are busy climbing train cars at unbelievable speeds, Dawson’s character has to lead the battle charge while handling the bureaucracy.

To find out more about her role and what drew her to the part, we talked to Dawson herself about aiming for action-oriented roles as a woman and a man known only as “White Denzel.”

When I sat down last week with Rosario Dawson to talk about her new action thriller Unstoppable (which also stars Chris Pine and Denzel Washington), I had no idea it was going to turn into a conversation about Star Trek. But it did. If you didn’t know, Dawson is a huge Trekkie and we spent a bunch of the time talking about how she wants to be in the Star Trek sequel. She even spoke some Klingon. Of course we also talked about making Unstoppable, dressing for premieres and the double standard between men and women, and she talked about her next project called Girl Walks Into a Bar.

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