Why the show was banned from filming at USC and what it\nwas like kissing Josh Duhamel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> Fans of NBC\u2019s \u201cAwake\u201d have been trying to figure out\nwhich reality is really real since the show premiered earlier this year. For those\nfamiliar with the show, \u201cAwake\u201d follows the life of detective Michael Britten (Jason\nIsaacs) who is struggling between two realities following a car crash. In one\nworld, his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) is alive, and in the other his son Rex (Dylan\nMinnette) survives. In order to differentiate between the two realities,\nMichael wears a red rubber band when his wife is alive and a green one in the\nworld where his son is alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the episode titled \u201cOregon,\u201d airing on Thursday, March\n29, some new clues may be revealed. MSN TV spoke with Laura Allen about what\u2019s\nahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN TV: Happy\nbelated birthday, by the way!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Allen: Oh, you\u2019re so sweet. Thank you! Yeah, it was\nlast week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you have a\ngood one?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I did. I got up to see my family. I brought my son, and\nmy sister just had a baby, so we were surrounded by family. It was a very good\nbirthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are they still in\nthe Pacific Northwest?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s where I was. I was up in Seattle over the weekend.\nI grew up on Bainbridge Island. \u2026I got lucky, too because it was so beautiful!\nThe mountains were out the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hear your character\nhas some major developments coming up on the \u201cOregon\u201d episode. What can you\ntell us about what\u2019s going to happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Britten is solving in the green world the case of\na serial killer\u2014Gemini killer. While he\u2019s preoccupied with that, Hannah in the\nred world has taken initiative and has applied to law school and has actually gone\nup to Oregon to scout out a collect campus. In doing so, I think we see in\nHannah a new sense of hope and renewal, and Dr. Lee (BD Wong) really poses the\ndifficult question to Michael: \u201cAre you sure Hannah really just wants to leave\nLA, or does she want to leave you?\u201d So, it calls into question our relationship.\nMany marriages don\u2019t survive the loss of a child. I think we\u2019re confronted if\nthis marriage can survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are fans going to\nget some sense of resolution in the episode, or is it just going to start\npushing forward in that direction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We have a sit-down kind of come-to-Jesus discussion\u2014Michael\nand Hannah, and it was beautifully written, and Jason is such a great actor. I\nwon\u2019t give too much away, but Hannah can\u2019t let Michael go. I mean, it\u2019s only\nthrough him that she\u2019s still connected to Rex, so they\u2019re able to kind of reach\nout to each other. It\u2019s some beautiful writing. I\u2019m excited about the episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you finished\nshooting all of Season 1?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are finished with Season 1 and waiting to hear about Season\n2. We wrapped at the end of February and it was just in time because I am 7 \u00bd months\npregnant! I\u2019m expecting a baby in June, so they were doing all kinds of makeup,\nlighting tricks, wardrobe, hiding me behind boxes, that wort of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What was it like\nworking on set while being pregnant? Was it difficult?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was in my second trimester for most of it, so it was\nkind of great. A lot of the crew came form \u201c24: and I know they dealt with,\nwhat\u2019s her name, she played Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub), she went the full term\non that. I think they hit the writers\u2019 strike and she started out not pregnant,\nand then they came back, and it was 5 o\u2019clock and suddenly she\u2019s like\ngiant-pregnant. So, it\u2019s Hollywood magic. Stunt double and body doubles, so I\ndon\u2019t think you\u2019ll know I\u2019m pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are there any\nmemorable moments form shooting that stick out in your memory or is there a\nparticular scene you\u2019re excited for fans to see?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs]. There\u2019s a scene coming up in I think it might\nbe 2-3 episodes form now where Hannah and Michael go skinny-dipping, and Jason\ninsisted on being bare-assed in the swimming pool and was running all around\nand we\u2019re talking like 2-3 o\u2019clock in the morning. And we got, as a crew, we\ngot in trouble with the security at USC to the point where, when hey wanted to\nshoot another scene in our season finale at the USC pool, we are forbidden from\ngoing back there! [Laughs] I mean it\u2019s NBC< so I don\u2019t know what they\u2019ll actually\nshow at the end of the day, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot of raw footage out there\nof Jason\u2019s naked butt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll have to\nYouTube that and see. No, I\u2019m kidding! [Laughs].<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs] It\u2019s got to be out there somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you think\nsets \u201cAwake\u201d apart from other TV shows that are on the air right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, anyone who sees it can answer it really well. It\u2019s\na copy show and yet we go home with this man and he\u2019s got two worlds and there\u2019s\na heart and soul to it that is so beautifully written. I mean, we have the\nwriters from \u201c24,\u201d but we also have Kyle Killen and there\u2019s a broken-hearted\nman at the center of this who is trying to overcome his loss and trying to hold\nup these two worlds and sustain them at the price of his own sanity. I think it\u2019s\njust beautifully done. Gorgeous cast with the likes of Cherry Jones and BD\nWong, and we\u2019re really lucky to have the talent behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fan reaction to\nthis show has been really positive so far. Have they reached out to you and the\nrest of the cast over the social media sites at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You know, at first there was a real tug between is the red\nworld real? Is the green world real? Kind of Team Hannah and Team Rex, and I think\nas we get going, the point of this is not to root for one side or the other,\nbut to empathize with [Michael\u2019s] struggle\u2014he lost his wife and his song\u2014so I\u2019m\nnoticing on the fans sites like Twitter and the NBC homepage and whatever else\nis that there\u2019s a real desire to see what\u2019s happened but not necessarily to\nsolve one side or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of your\nfans on Facebook and Twitter, when they found out I was going to be interviewing\nyou, they sent in some questions they wanted me to ask. Tom wants to know \u201cdo you\nhave a feeling for how long fans will be willing to follow the show without\nknowing which reality is real, or might there be a third possibility?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think these writers are really smart. They won\u2019t ever\ndisappoint the fans by what might bet he obvious choice which is Michael\u2019s dead\u2014if\nMichael\u2019s in a coma. The truth is, one of these worlds, green or red, is a\ndream. I don\u2019t know. Dylan doesn\u2019t know. So, I think there could potentially be\na third possibility. So, I think [Tom] is really on to something to think that.\nThe end of Season 1 offers a real glimpse into that possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How far in advance\ndo you know the storylines? Do you try to pry info out of the writers to tell\nyou what\u2019s going to happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs] It\u2019s always wardrobe who knows the most first\nbecause they have to dress us. No, I truthfully don\u2019t want to know. \u2026 I may find\nout that it\u2019s been a dream all along, and it\u2019s going to hit me hard. I don\u2019t\nwant to know. I do want to know when it comes to are we going to have a\nfighting scene. And there\u2019s an episode coming up where Michael might get stuck in\none world and can\u2019t wake up for the other and those kinds of twists, I love\nhearing about, but I don\u2019t need to know if I\u2019m dead or alive right now because\nI just play it like I\u2019m alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Angela wrote in \u201cYou\nacted as Leo\u2019s (Josh Duhamel\u2019s) one-wife on \u201cAll My Children.\u201d Was he a good kisser?\nAnd how do you feel about \u2018AMC\u2019 getting canceled?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs] Oh, I was kind of difficult on \u201cAll My Children\u201d\nbecause I broke up two super-couples. Leo and Greenlee were a couple\u2014they were\nso hot on \u201cAll My Children\u201d and my character, who was coincidentally named\nLaura, broke them up for a minute. I did get to kiss Josh and he\u2019s very dreamy\nand was my first on-camera kiss. I watched his scenes with Rebecca Budig who\nplayed Greenlee, and I was like \u2018man, they are so sexy!\u2019 and I was intimidated\nby it. But he was kind with me, being as green as I was, and I think he even\ncame back in the last episodes because they did wrap \u201cAll My Children\u201d after 35\nyears or something. People have gone on to do great things. Susan Lucci is on \u201cArmy\nWives\u201d now, and she\u2019s on a pilot coming out. It\u2019s sad. But I think daytime soap\noperas are seeing its last days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you keep in\ntouch with everyone from \u201cAll my Children\u201d? Are they watching you on \u201cAwake\u201d\nnow?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s so funny you ask that. \u201cAll My Children\u201d was almost like\na sorority to me because we all started on that show and it was like our first\njob and it was in New York. Then all of us, in our own time, came out to Los\nAngeles and so we\u2019ve reconnected. I\u2019m really close with Eden Riegel who played\nBianca, Erica Kane\u2019s daughter, and also some smaller roles\u2014Alana de la Garza (Rose\nSantos) went on to \u201cLaw and Order\u201d\u2014she\u2019s a good friend, so a lot of girlfriends\nfrom that time. I also keep in touch with Josh because we have the same acting\ncoach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any message you\nwant to send out to fans of \u201cAwake\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay tuned. It\u2019s just getting better and better. I mean,\nit\u2019s sort of like a steam engine and it starts taking off with this storyline\nand people can\u2019t even imagine where this show can go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAwake\u201d airs\nThursdays at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on NBC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why the show was banned from filming at USC and what it was like kissing Josh Duhamel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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