Abbie Cornish recording a rap album

CEBU, Philippines - Get ready to see Abbie Cornish rap live in concert. The Australian beauty isn’t just an actress—she’s an aspiring hip-hop artist, too!

Cornish is currently working on recording an album. “I’m half-way through it. I go back into the studio at the end of February. It should be finished soon. It should be released toward the end of the year,” she told reporters during the premiere of her latest flick, “Robocop.”

You can see Cornish’s rapping skills on YouTube clips of her, performing with her former band, Blades.

“My favorite rapper is Eminem,” Cornish said. “But my music collection goes from classical to jazz to blues. My favorite era is the sixties and seventies. I have a very eclectic taste in music.”

And don’t expect a collection of covers. “I compose and write,” Cornish said. “I’m working with a lot of producers and musicians.”

She’s not featured on the “Robocop” soundtrack, but she did immediately accept the role as Robocop’s wife when director José Padilha came calling for her to be in his reboot of the 1987 cult classic.  Joel Kinneman of “The Killing” stars as the cyborg crime fighter.

“I’ve done a lot of art house and a lot of indies, but I loved this,” Cornish said. “It’s the most fun I’ve had making a movie.”

Cornish said she became familiar with the original “Robocop” when she was just five years old. “We had it on VHS,” Cornish said. “But I was quite little, wasn’t I? My mom’s over there—you can ask her why I was allowed to watch it. My brother’s also over there and I watched it with him about ten times.” (FREEMAN)