Non-MX Interviews: Lauren Lee Smith (1/04 Vancouver Sun)


Lauren Lee Smith: 1/17/04 Vancouver Sun. *This excerpt was posted by Acidburn on Lauren Lee Smith's official forum before that forum disappeared.

Acidburn wrote: It's an interview from the Vancouver Sun with Lauren Lee Smith from January 17 2004. There is no link - believe it or not I paid to download so I am just going to copy the parts pertaining to TLW. Some comments are quite revealing with regard to the ongoing speculation about reshoots and the mysterious methods of the writers. IMHO

(from interview): When her role on Showtime's The L Word wrapped and she hadn't been asked to do a love scene, LLS thought she'd passed under the radar. "I did my six episodes and I thought I was done. Then I got a phone call saying, 'Oh, you have another scene. We decided to write it in because we need to put this in the dynamic of your character', blah, blah, blah. And I just knew. Cause I thought I got off so easy - I was like, Yeah! I'm the only one who didn't have to get naked."

Lee had signed a nudity waiver for the show, along with the rest of the cast -Beals, Grier, Lombard, Daniels, Moennig, Holoman, Heily and Kirshner.

The scene is short, discreet and "it was shot very funny," says Smith. "Our characters are sort of like the comic relief of the show, we're the light, goofy, silly, in-love couple. So it wasn't this full-on passionate thing."

Like most of the cast, both Smith and Daniels are heterosexual. "We decided, let's just do this, let's make it real and not make it weird in any way. And as strange as this may sound, I'm kind of, in a way glad that the first time was with a woman, (Smith collapses in a fit of giggles), because... I think with a guy it would have been almost more uncomfortable, because by the time we did it, she (Daniels) and I were really good friends."

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