Friday, March 21, 2008

TwoCents & Five Questions with...

…Lauren Ambrose, who co-stars with Parker Posey in the new FOX comedy series The Return of Jezebel James. She was a two-time Primetime Emmy nominee for her role as Claire Fisher in HBO’s hit series Six Feet Under. Lauren also starred in the films Psycho Beach Party and Can’t Hardly Wait.

Lauren took some time out to answer questions about herself and The Return of Jezebel James.

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  1. …Lauren Ambrose, who co-stars with Parker Posey in the new FOX comedy series The Return of Jezebel James. She was a two-time Primetime Emmy nominee for her role as Claire Fisher in HBO’s hit series Six Feet Under. Lauren also starred in the films Psycho Beach Party and Can’t Hardly Wait.

    Lauren took some time out to answer questions about herself and The Return of Jezebel James.

    Q: Hello, Lauren. How are you doing?
    Lauren: I’m all right.

    Q: How does it feel to return to series television?
    Lauren: Six Feet Under is my only other experience in television, really, and for that one we had two weeks to make every episode. It was fairly luxurious as far as these things go. Everything was on location, a lot was on location. It was on film too, actually, but it was shot just like a movie, I guess. It was like an independent film pace. This is a whole other world. This is in multi-camera. It sounded exciting to me when it was explained to me.

    Q: What attracted you to this project?
    Lauren: Of course, the script was very funny, clever and she has a very strong view, Amy (Sherman-Palladino). The writing seemed very touching and sweet, like it would afford interesting places for these characters to go. It was cool that the show was about ladies and about an alternative family, estranged family members, sisters especially. I don’t have a sister, but I was interested in that relationship. It seems like good old-fashioned entertainment. We went to work in Queens in this old studio called Kaufman Astoria. They shot the Marx Brothers movies there and all kinds of films. They have the pictures up all over the place. In fact, the stages that we were on were The Cosby Show stages, so there’s a certain grace in there. It was like old-fashioned show biz. It’s like working out our little bits, doing it and waiting for the big show on Friday. That was challenging because it was totally different, scary to me, and I like the things that scare me and seem strange.

    Q: Did the writers rewrite anything as your were taping in front of a studio audience?
    Lauren: You know, I don’t know what it’s like on other shows, but on this one there was not a lot of rewriting. There were panic moments of like, “Let’s do one where the joke is this,” but those were few and far between. We sort of changed lines here and there to have something else, but we rehearsed and the scripts stayed the scripts from the beginning day of rehearsal; it didn’t change too drastically.

    Q: How has it been for you, having a baby and managing an acting career?
    Lauren: It’s challenging at times and great at other times. It’s probably hard for everyone who works and has kids. It’s just a shift in your life.

    Q: Thank you for doing this call.
    Lauren: Sure. Thank you.

    Thanks again to Lauren for taking the time to give her TwoCents. Be sure to check out The Return of Jezebel James on FOX, Fridays at 8:30 PM EST.

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