Dernière interview pas inintéressante du tout avec Laurel Holloman (
elle on sent bien que l'ambiance de tournage de la série ainsi que ses
copines lui manquent déjà ! Ah, et puis jetez un oeil à sa dernière
réponse, je trouve qu'elle a particulièrement bon goût en matière de
séries TV ) :
http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?Section=2&ID=23626When Showtime’s groundbreaking lesbian series The L Word aired its
final episode in March, Bette and Tina were on the verge of growing
their family and moving to the East Coast. Now that a potential spinoff
series has been nixed and a reality series — The Real L Word: Los
Angeles — has been greenlighted, SheWired thought it was about time to
sit down with one of the most beloved characters on the drama — Laurel
Holloman — to talk about reality TV, what her next role is, what she
would have happen for Bette and Tina as well as what show she’d most
like to appear on next.
SheWired: What do you think about the new L Word reality series Ilene Chaiken is doing with Showtime?
Laurel Holloman: I think it’s great. Any way that they can keep
everything going, I think if Ilene comes up with some great ideas to
keep it going, honestly I think it’ll be refreshing to see a reality “L
Word” instead of the glossed-over, high-heeled makeup one. Because
every day I go to work and I hear things like, “All my friends in the
community, we never wear shoes like this.” I fought to wear boots the
whole first season. What I say is do the reality show and bring it on.
I think it’s great the show is there and you have to embrace it by
putting it out and hope it opens up doors. And if it opens the door for
a reality show then it has served its purpose. It (The L Word) was
groundbreaking; it was phenomenal. It was a gift to be on it. I feel
really lucky.
SW: Do you miss the show since it wrapped?
LH: Yeah, I miss the girls. But there are a lot of girls that I
keep in touch with. I talk to Erin Daniels and Rachel Shelley almost
every day, they both just had children — Erin had a little boy and
Rachel had a little girl — and I just talked to Jennifer (Beals) a
couple weeks ago. It’s just like a family. I saw Kate Moennig a couple
weeks ago. I just feel like we’ll all sort of run into each other in
some capacity. Because some people are closer than others and we all
sort of gravitate toward each other in some way. I’d like to see a
movie to be honest. I hope that the reality show goes and I hope that
there’s some sort of movie afterward.
SW: What are you working on right now?
LH: I just did an episode of Castle for ABC and I want to
guest-spot on what ever is there and what character fits, but it’s hard
for a series regular. I really want it to be the right thing. I realize
now that you can go with a show and it can literally grow for six years
and you want it to be the right thing. I feel like I was given this
wonderful gift so I want the next thing I do to be special. But in this
economy, it’s a really hard time to try to navigate what to do next. I
also have a 5-year-old daughter and an 18-month-old daughter, so I have
to figure out how to juggle it.
SW: Jennifer is doing Lie to Me and Kate is doing Three Rivers …
LH: I just actually read for a Three Rivers spot, but I didn’t get
it. I was excited because I thought, “This would be so cool to be with
Kate but in a different scenario.” It was the first time I realized
that it’s very possible that all of us can end up in a different
situation together and the sad thing is that you get out there and you
realize that it’s still a very male-dominated industry and it’s still
really frustration. I really take a lot of pleasure in seeing a lot of
the directors that we worked with (on The L Word) that are still
working. I just ran into Jamie Babbit and I’m really tight with Angela
Robinson and Alex (Kondracke) and I actually share a nanny with Angela
and Alex. I realize that there will probably be other things for
everybody. You have to let The L Word die down a little bit and then
slowly navigate what ever comes next. I’ll be really interested in the
reality show though.
SW: Ilene had the spinoff — The Farm — with Leisha Hailey at Showtime but they passed on it. Do you know what happened there?
LH: I don’t know a lot about it. I just know there were a lot of
talented actresses on it — I think Melissa Leo, who is one of my
favorite actresses ever, Laurie Metcalf is really good and Framke
Janssen did something and Leisha was always to me the sun that we all
revolved around. I just don’t know if it was fully realized and it’s a
hard climate to try and sell a spinoff in because there are so many
great shows that aren’t going to get picked up at all. I think it was
really great that Ilene got that caliber of actresses to come work on
her spinoff. I think that was a really good group of actresses.
SW: Did Ilene approach you at all about the spinoff?
LH: Honestly, not me or Jennifer. I think if you were to do a
spinoff with Tina, you have to spinoff with Bette. I just don’t think
they know what to do with Tina and Bette. That’s the movie! That’s not
a TV show, that’s a movie!
SW: If you were going to write the movie of the story of Tina and Bette, what would happen?
LH: Awwww. They have another baby. Or adopt. I’ve adopted a child,
so I’m a really big fan of adoption. I’d like to see them do that.
There’s this beautiful thing that happened at the end (of the series)
where they both were fully realized, where Bette became more relaxed
and less controlling and Tina became more assertive and you see this
really beautiful balance and you see that you can be in a partnership
for a long period of time and still love each other and love the
changes. I think they had to have the changes and the forgiveness;
there were lots of things for Tina to forgive Bette, and Bette had to
forgive Tina for being an *******, too. That’s growth. That’s love
through partnership. When I talk about the show, I really start to miss
it.
SW: Now, without The L Word, there’s so little representation of gays and lesbians on TV. Why do you think that is?
LH: Well, part of it is, you get into the thing where you get into
the thinking of are we doing this because it’s trendy or are we doing
this because it’s representative of what people want to see right now,
and I think it’s representative of what people want to see. I think
there’s a lot of great television writers out there right now — and I’m
going to say this because I’ve worked with a lot of them — and they’re
trying to write more great TV, but what the problem is is that there’s
so much reality television programming that it’s turning everything
into like The Hills. I’m sorry, but it’s not deserving. If there’s an L
Word reality show, I feel like there’s an audience for it because we
proved that there’s an audience. It doesn’t have to be in my mind a
genre show. It has to just be a show about what’s going on in the world
right now. I mean my daughter goes to kindergarten right now and her
best friend has two moms and her other best friend is African-American.
I mean, this is the school my daughter goes to. This is the world we
live in right now, so why is it so marginalized right now? That’s what
I have trouble with. I don’t want to get too much on a soapbox, but I
wonder if the conversation that you and I are having right now — will
somebody be having it in 20 years or will it just be like this is what
entertainment is, this is what people want to watch; that we get to
watch on TV reflections of ourselves.
SW: Would you ever be interested in writing?
LH: I just got an hour lecture on how I should start writing. I
have a lot of writers around me, a lot of my friends are writers, my
brother is a writer — he’s a novelist — and I still come from an
independent film background. I mean, before The L Word that was really
the bulk of what I did, so I’d like to think that I’d like to be
involved with writing movies. But to be really honest with you, the
climate that I see right now, I feel pretty cynical about the ability
to get something produced right now. Right now I’m just trying to find
really good characters on TV so I can pave my way in that area.
SW: If you were going to pick any show on TV to have a regular character on, what show would you pick and why?
LH: I would love to be part of Mad Men. True Blood. I think Alan
Ball is really creative. I’m also Southern and I was on Angel (for
eight episodes) so I would appreciate the vampire thing. And when you
watch it, everybody knows he’s writing about so much more. It’s just a
beautiful show. I know Sam Trammell, we were friends in New York doing
theater together and I just feel like that’s just a wonderful show. I
turned it on and was just like, “Yeah, this is what needs to be out
there.” I like the message that it sends. So True Blood. Or In
Treatment … I also think Weeds is a great show.
Sujet: Re: News sur The L Word 
Mer 29 Juil - 14:23
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Enfin, moi je dis ça...
6 invités et c'est là qu'ils nous annoncent JB, Laurel, Leisha... 
superbe cette photo de Kate!!
