"When I was a little girl, one of the people I totally adored was Ginger on Gilligan's Island. That's who I wanted to be when I grew up," - says Fairuza Balk, looking decidedly un-Ginger-like with tinted blue hair, silver nose ring, and eyeliner extended towards her temples. At the moment, the 22-year-old Balk finds herself not on Gilligan's Island, but in The Island of Dr. Moreau; not with Skipper and Gilligan, but with Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando, and David Thewlis, in the third screen adaptation of H.G. Wells's science-fiction thriller. Sitting on a well-worn couch at a friend's house in the Hollywood Hills, Balk recalls the eight-month shoot that took her on location to Australia. She takes a drag from a Rothmans, using an empty cat-food bowl as an ashtray. " The film that's come out is not the film I signed on to do," - says Balk, explaining how over the course of filming. director Richard Stanley was fired and replaced by John Frankenheimer, and how actor Rob Morrow left and was replaced by David Thewlis (with whom Balk is now romantically involved). They brought in writer after writer after writer," she continues. " The story changed drastically. Every day there was a new script. Basically, they turned my role into 'the girl,' and that was never anything I strove to become."