Non-MX Interviews: Lauren Lee Smith (4/08 Fangoria)


Excerpt from Fangoria 4/08: Lauren Lee Smith

Psycho Pathology

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN

On a visit to the set of Lakeshore Entertainment’s PATHOLOGY (receiving its long-delayed, albeit limited, theatrical release April 18 from MGM), things appear positively Darwinian: Either you’re a doctor in a lab coat with lots of cool, sharp tools, or you’re lying dead and sliced open on a morgue slab. As cast members (metaphorically) spill their guts for FANGORIA, director Marc Schoelermann sets up the next shot while two makeup FX artists are on their knees mixing movie blood and applying various yellow, red and green substances to a disembodied brain.

Lauren Lee Smith (of TV’s MUTANT X, and soon to be seen in TRICK ’R TREAT) wields a pair of pruning shears to open a ribcage in the shot being lensed. “The killing scenes are a little more frantic,” she notes. “We’re just getting into the autopsies right now, and to me, those seem to be a little bit harder—they’re pretty disgusting, especially that shot right there.” She refers to a just-filmed sequence where a corpse’s intestine is accidentally perforated and spews its contents. “The whole ‘poop pipe’ thing—that’s pretty raunchy up close.”
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Smith adds that her character, Juliette Bath, takes to Ted in a different way. “She’s one of the five people in our circle who come up with this plan to see who can commit the perfect murder. Juliette is, in a sense, with Jake, Michael Weston’s [alpha-male pathologist] role, until Mr. Ted comes along and she starts to get involved with him. There are some issues that arise from that.”

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