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Non-MX Interviews: Lauren Lee Smith (10/08 Entertainment Tonight)


Entertainment Tonight 10/7/08: Lauren Lee Smith | watch

Meet CSI's Hot New Crime Investigator

America's top drama, "CSI," is coming back with a vengeance. The hit show might be losing main man William Petersen, but it is picking up a very sultry new addition. The lovely Lauren Lee Smith will be joining the CSI family in its 9th season, premiering this week!

"Everyone has just been so, so wonderful," Lauren tells ET of her new cast and crew mates. "I really was apprehensive at first."

The statuesque actress may seem like a fresh face, but she has been around Hollywood for quite a while. She was on the "L Word" and "The Dead Zone," and most recently co-starred in the horror thriller 'Pathology' with "Heroes" star Milo Ventimiglia.

Stay tuned, because Lauren will not be mixing things up in the lab until the third episode, but the investigations start up again Thursday Oct. 9 on CBS.

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Lauren Lee Smith: The character I play is Riley Adams, and she's this young, very saucy, sarcastic, sassy -- all the 'S' words -- girl. And she's thrown into the mix. The CSIs are understaffed at this point, and she's just sort of thrown into the mix. There's not a lot of time for formalities and 'getting to know you' and all of that. She's sort of thrown in last minute. And she has a very wry dark sense of humor, which I think is really fun, and I think this is something that that we haven't seen on CSI yet, a character like this.

It's interesting because the first time that I meet Grissom, it's basically, he's just looking for me. He knows I'm the new girl, he's like, "You, come on, we've got to go. We've got to get to work." And through work, during our first introduction scene, I think he sort of catches on that I'm kind of quirky in a way. So, you know, he always does these wonderful little looks, these little sort of, you know, he watches with such intensity, but it's also very comedic in a way.

Everyone has just been so, so wonderful, and I really did, I was a little bit apprehensive at first, you know, coming into something where these people have been working together for nine years. And everyone from day one had said what a family atmosphere everyone creates, cast, crew, everyone. And it's just such a lovely group of people. And I have been so welcomed by everyone, it's just been really, really lovely.

I was going to Vegas with Allen, one of the writers, to do a ride along. And we were at the airport, and he was like, "You know, this time next year, it's probably going to be a different story." And I'm like, "What are you talking about?" He's like, "Well, you know, the whole cast, when they go to the airport or whatever, you know, everyone gets recognized." And that was really the first time that I ever thought about it, and I was like, "Oh, wow. That's interesting. Yeah, we'll see." I don't know, I'm pretty naive when it comes to that. I don't really think about that, I just, you know, day to day. I come to work, I'm really lucky and excited to be here. Gosh, you know, people start noticing me, or whatever, I guess I'll have to take it from there. We'll see.

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