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Variety 4/3/07: Lauren Lee Smith |
Pathology Four cast in ‘Pathology’: Ventimiglia, Smith among stars added to thriller
Kathy Lyford April 3, 2007 | 01:44PM PT
Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, Johnny Whitworth and Alyssa Milano have been cast in Lakeshore’s thriller “Pathology.” Commercials director Mark Scholermann is making his feature helming debut. Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will produce with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Script, written by Neveldine and Taylor, is about a group of med students who hatch a scheme to see who can commit the perfect crime - one that even a fellow pathologist couldn’t unravel. Production will begin in early May in Los Angeles. MGM will distribute the pic in the U.S. in late fall. Lakeshore will be selling international rights at Cannes.
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Variety Joblo video 5/13/07: Lauren Lee Smith |
YouTube Excl: Pathology - On the set with Lauren Lee Smith
Sunday May 13, 2007
Lauren: I like it rough.
Dan Callahan "Chip": Is that your camera?
Lauren: It is for today.
Dan: What's up?
Lauren: You have something you want to say?
Dan: Not really.
Lauren: Come on. Did we work--let's see the shirt.
Dan: This is Fort Lauderdale.
Lauren: Oh, yeah.
Dan: 1986.
Lauren: That's hot.
What are we doing today?
Lauren: Do you have any idea what we're doing today?
Dan: Today...
Lauren: Yeah.
Dan: Ah, no. I think we're all a little unsure of what's happening today.
Lauren: Okay.
Dan: I know we're doing dead bodies, puppeteering them.
Lauren: Yep.
Dan: And...that's it.
Lauren: Nice.
Dan: Do you know what we're doing today?
Lauren: Nope.
Dan: No. That's a problem.
Mark Neveldine: Hey, what's up, Dan, what's going on?
Dan: How are you doing?
Mark: You ready to have some sex with bodies?
Dan: Yeah, is that what we're doing? That's good.
Mark: Watch this.
Dan: Are we gonna use protection?
Lauren: Let's see.
Brian Taylor (indicating dead dummy): I was worse than that like 20 minutes ago.
Mark's not happy
Lauren: Uh-oh. Some shit's going down. Marc [Schoelerman] is not happy. The arms are crossed. Hmmm. Things are not looking so good for today. Let's go talk to Michael.
Battle wounds
Lauren: Tell me a story.
Michael Weston "Jake": A story?
Lauren: Yeah.
Michael: Um...
Lauren: Do you still have your scratch?
Michael: I have all my scratches.
Lauren: Let's see the shit.
Michael: Actually, you're becoming infamous.
Lauren: I am! Did you know that when we did our scene, I ripped a chunk out of Buddy's cheek and he bled?
Michael: Buddy?
Lauren: Old Fat Bastard.
Michael: No!
Lauren: Yeah.
Michael: Oh, my God.
Lauren: I know.
Michael: You're an animal.
Lauren: I know.
Michael: And me and-- Milo and I, see, that's proper grammar.
Lauren: Did you, were you comparing marks?
Michael: We have similar scars from our scenes with you.
Lauren: That's the way I do it.
Dan: She leaves her mark.
Michael: And he could barely walk yesterday because he had such bad...
Lauren: What?
Michael: Rug burn on his ass.
Lauren: Yeah, he did. He did.
Michael: It was like a turf wound from playing football.
Dan: Racquetball.
Michael. That's what people get when they tangle with your ass.
Pretty girls (and guys)
Lauren: There's the lovely Mei. Look how beautiful.
Mei Melancon: Ah.
Lauren: Her character has lesbian undertones. That's right. That's right.
Dan: That's what you girls do all day long. You tell each other how beautiful you are. You all go up to each other--
Mei: But you know, but what's interesting, is that when you look at a girl, they do look pretty. I look at guys, and I think you're pretty too.
Michael: Not all girls.
Mei: These guys are so nice.
Michael: Don't go overboard.
Mei: Oh. Guys are pretty too.
Michael: That's what I say. I went up to Dan today and I said, "You're beautiful, Dan."
Mei: Gorgeous.
Dan: I know. His eyes? Have you seen these things? I can't even look, I cry. I tear up every time.
Marc's happy (sexy time).
Mei: You're beautiful, Marc.
Marc: Thank you.
Lauren: You're beautiful, Marc. I love how you're wearing sunglasses inside.
Marc: That's because they're prescription.
Lauren: Oh, I know! Can you do your sexy dance?
Marc: Hey, Mei, how are you?
Dan: He's cool. He's just cool.
Lauren: Hey, Marc, will you do your dance? Your sexy time dance? That you're like, "It's sexy time."
Mei: Oh my god!
Lauren: Every time there's a sex scene he does that. "It's sexy time!"
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Joblo Excerpt from
The Vancouver Sun 6/14/07: Lauren Lee Smith Michael J. Fox returns to B.C. for fundraiser
Yvonne Zacharias, Published: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Vancouver actress Lauren Lee Smith had to spend a fair amount of time in a Los Angeles morgue watching autopsies for a movie called Pathology. It's a psychological thriller based on the story of a group of five pathology residents who devise a deadly game to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder. "It was pretty intense and quite fascinating," said the 26-year-old actress. She was fairly calm while watching. "After you leave, that is when I had the most problems. Just the images that dance around in your brain afterward." Shooting wraps up in about a week. Smith says she has had fun, but "I think I had my fill of the morgue."
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The Vancouver Sun Excerpt from
Vancouver Sun 6/21/07: Lauren Lee Smith Sexy roles just come her way: B.C.-born Lauren Lee Smith plays seductive TV 'weather girl' in latest movie
Michael D. Reid, Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Smith recently survived visits to a morgue in Los Angeles to research her role as a pathology student challenged to devise the perfect murder in MGM's upcoming thriller Pathology.
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The Vancouver Sun Excerpt from
Fangoria 9/20/07: Lauren Lee Smith September 20: PATHOLOGY: First report and photos
-Abbie Bernstein
We’re in a modern morgue, where a number of corpses in various stages of the autopsy process lie exposed for viewing-actually, a soundstage at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach, CA, housing some of the main sets for Lakeshore Entertainment’s PATHOLOGY (see a couple more photos below). This grisly suspense thriller, which MGM releases November 30, is about a group of medical interns who come up with a deadly game: Each of them will commit a murder, and the others will try to guess how it was done by autopsying the victim. In the scene being filmed, actor Milo (HEROES) Ventimiglia watches actress Lauren Lee (TRICK ’R TREAT) Smith is wielding a huge pair of what look like hedge-clippers-a real pathology tool-to spread a ribcage. Smith says this is less of a challenge than she had feared. “My upper body strength is pretty weak, but it was actually a lot easier than I expected. I’ve been sending pictures to my mom and grandma-‘Hey, Mom, look at what I got to do today!’ ” she laughs.
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Fangoria Excerpt from
Claire McBuffy at L4 3/08: Lauren Lee Smith Lauren Lee Smith and Anne Ramsey Q&A: Part 1.
Attendee: I’m curious to know about what movies you have coming out?
Lauren: ....Umm, then I did a film called Pathology. Uh, this sort of psychological thriller. And that’s coming out April 18th in the states, and hopefully it’ll be over here fairly soon.
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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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Fangoria Excerpt from
Watertown Daily Times 4/17/08: Lauren Lee Smith City native's film a dark thriller
By JUDE SEYMOUR PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008 AT 3:16 AM
Mr. Neveldine 'dresses the body' for a scene in the new film 'Pathology' as actors Lauren Lee Smith and Milo Ventimiglia look on.
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Watertown Daily Times Excerpt from
MGM Press Notes 4/18/08: Lauren Lee Smith PATHOLOGY: About the Production
The key actors cast in PATHOLOGY were also excited to see that the film transcends the campy tones and gratuitous violence of traditional horror movies.
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“It reminded me of Flatliners and Se7en,” says cast-member Lauren Lee Smith, “and those are the kinds of films I love to watch.”
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Shadowing working pathologists also prepared the actors for the everyday realities of dealing with cadavers. “It was extremely helpful to go into the morgue,” says Smith. “That was incredible to be able to watch the autopsies and to see how they handled the bodies.” She was particularly taken aback with how rough the doctors had to be with the deceased as they sliced or cracked their way inside for a closer look.
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Smith is less charitable in describing her character, the pathologist Juliette. “She’s mean and vindictive.” Yet, Smith adds, “That’s what I like about playing her. I get to go completely outside of myself.”
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MGM Excerpt from
Reuters 4/21/08: Lauren Lee Smith Diagnosis: DOA for "Pathology"
By Frank Scheck Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:42am EDT
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A particularly nasty slice of medical-themed horror, "Pathology" is the sort of thriller in which the tenderest scene depicts an autopsy. The tale of a young doctor and the fellow residents with whom he participates in a grisly series of murders followed by made-to-order autopsies, Marc Scholermann's film will best appeal to the sort of people who look up crime-scene photos on the Internet. That would appear to be a small niche, judging by the MGM release's estimated $50,000 worth of ticket sales during its first three days since opening Friday in just 46 theaters.
The story centers on Ted Grey (Milo Ventimiglia, NBC's "Heroes"), a doctor specializing in pathology who begins a residency at a Philadelphia hospital. (As is usual in such horror films, the hallways seem dangerously underlit.) He soon comes into contact with a group of young fellow docs, led by the crazed Jack Gallo (Michael Weston), who are so into their work that they have devised a devilish game. First, one of them dispatches an unwanted member of the community, and then the others perform an autopsy to try to figure out how it was done. Sex, drugs and general hilarity ensue. Ted, the sort of concerned young doctor who gets off a bus rather than treat a fellow passenger in the midst of a heart attack, doesn't hesitate to join in on the fun. One motivation is the general hotness of the female doctors taking part, especially Jake's gal, Juliette (Lauren Lee Smith), with whom he is soon enjoying torrid, post-autopsy liaisons.
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Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Excerpt from
Film Threat 4/21/08: Lauren Lee Smith PATHOLOGY
Posted on April 21, 2008 in Reviews by Stina Chyn
The gratuitously nude Juliette Bath (Lauren Lee Smith from The L-Word) and the antagonizing Gallo are almost cruelly clever enough to appeal to the viewer, especially since Dr. Grey is no saint, but poor writing keeps them tethered to an under-achieving plot.
Film Threat Excerpt from
About.com 5/08: Lauren Lee Smith |
YouTube Interview with the Stars of Pathology: Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, and Michael Weston
How much did you study with real pathologists?
Milo Ventimiglia: "We spent a lot of time with the LA County Coroner's office. I mean, I saw about 17, 18 real autopsies and saw a couple hundred dead bodies. We spent a lot of time there. We strived to show the reality of what this world is, of what an autopsy is, of what a pathologist's job is. Of what an autopsy room - how it looks, how it feels, how it smells."
Describe the smell.
Milo Ventimiglia: "One of the worst things you're ever going to smell."
Lauren Lee Smith: "It's like you can't, really. There's no way to describe it."
Michael Weston: "It's like doody."
Lauren Lee Smith: "It's worse. It's worse than that."
Michael Weston: "It's like distant old doody."
Lauren Lee Smith: "The smell of death, basically."
Milo Ventimiglia: "You never forget it either. Like I was walking around somewhere and I smelled it after I'd been in the coroner's office. Like, 'Oh my god, there's something dead nearby.'"
Lauren Lee Smith: "Actually, that was the one thing out of spending all the time watching the autopsies and being in there. You sort of get used to it in a way, after about 15 minutes. But to me out of everything it was the smell that I found the most disturbing."
Michael Weston: "That lingered."
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And who do you play?
Milo Ventimiglia: "I play Dr Ted Grey. He's a guy who's kind of like on the straight and narrow. He has a great life ahead of him and he falls victim to like the seduces… Seduces?"
Lauren Lee Smith: "Seduction."
Milo Ventimiglia: "Seduction, thank you, of the characters Michael and Lauren play."
And who do you guys play?
Michael Weston: "The 'seduces'. I play Jake. We're these very high octane students at this place and I play the sort of leader of this group that corral people into this game. And Lauren and I have our relationship together and when Ted shows up he's like a really worthy opponent, and the most that's ever come along. We immediately realize that each other are the other's nemesis and we welcome each other into each other's lives."
Milo Ventimiglia: "It's a challenge but it's also going to be a lot of fun. You've finally got some kids to play with that are really going to push you."
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About.com DVD Town 7/9/08: Lauren Lee Smith Pathology on DVD
Fox Home Entertainment will release "Pathology" on DVD this September 23rd. The film stars Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, Johnny Whitworth, and Alyssa Milano. Extras will include: a "Commentary by Director Marc Scholermann and writers/producers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor," a "Creating the Perfect Murder" featurette, "The Cause of Death - A Conversation with Pathologist Craig Harvey" the "Unintended Consequences music video by Legion of Doom F/ Triune," an "Extended Autopsy Scene," and "Forced Trailers: Deception, The Happening, Joy Ride 2, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia."
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DVD Town Excerpt from
Splatter Films 4/8/08: Lauren Lee Smith Mei Melancon and Lauren Lee Smith tell some gruesome tales about the making of this film
Society seems to dictate certain things to boys and girls at very young ages. Boys like the scary stuff and girls go for the more softer side of things. Don't tell that to Mei Melancon and Lauren Lee Smith. As Catherine Ivy and Juliette Bath in the upcoming medical/horror/thriller Pathology, these two had no problems getting their hands dirty amidst the grim subject matter of this film. The movie focuses on a group of med students who hatch a scheme to see who can commit the perfect crime -- one that even a fellow pathologist couldn't unravel. During our set visit, the two actresses filled us on all the gory details going on around them.
Lauren Lee Smith: The sad thing is that it's ridiculously fun. I think we're having too much fun (laughs) being evil. The poor extras man...
Was it the script for Pathology that got you on board?
Lauren Lee Smith: I actually auditioned for Crank, it was probably one of the most fun auditions I ever did. I was really excited about this right off the bat. Then when I read it I really, really wanted this part and when I came into audition that's exactly what I said to them. "This is my part. You have to give it to me." And they did, they listened. Its been really great. Its an amazing group of people. I really like the fact that Mark (Schoelermann; the director) and Ekkehart (Pollack; the cinematographer) have worked together for so many years now. They have a really amazing relationship.
Mei Melancon: You'll be like, "How are we gonna shoot this?" They'll be like, "We'll see." It's like the greatest thing because you don't have to worry. You can move around and they'll just move with you. You're normally so worried about hitting your marks all the time, but they kind of just like adjust. When you're watching it it just looks so real.
Lauren Lee Smith: Were you surprised too? The first week of shooting I had no idea, really. I wasn't watching the shots or anything. Then someone brought it to my attention they're like the close-ups or whatever.
Mei Melancon: I asked the same thing. I'm like, "Is there a pattern?" Are we going wide, wide, then close, close, wide? I was like, "How tight are we? Okay, we're really tight."
Lauren Lee Smith: Yeah, it's gonna be intense.
We've seen some some pretty twisted things today. Did you guys have any reservations about any of it?
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Lauren Lee Smith: The dead bodies from the morgue look much more fake than what we have.
Mei Melancon: Do you remember that one guy and his hair, I swear, it looked like a wig. It looked like I would just be able to pull it off. These guys look more real. Even the transvestite today that he was holding up, that head looked real.
Lauren Lee Smith: That's what it looked it like. It's waxy.
Mei Melancon: The expressions, everything. Were you in there with that one guy who was shot by his wife?
Lauren Lee Smith: No, I wasn't.
Mei Melancon: He was shot by his wife three times. The way he looked was kinda like the same expression. In terror and helpless when he died.
Lauren Lee Smith: They've done an amazing job. Like every tiny detail. I know that when we were in the morgue, going around and doing our visits, I know all of us were checking out the autopsy room and thinking, "Okay, are we going to have this? Are we going to have that?" Sure enough, it's all here. Which really helps.
Is the dark humor any more difficult to inject into the performances?
Mei Melancon: I think for me, what's harder sometimes is the older lady that's in there... and you see them there and we're doing this. Every thing will dawn on you...
Lauren Lee Smith: The funny thing about that is, you know when you're in a group mentality, like urging each other on... you start thinking everything's okay.
Mei Melancon: In reality, the scene that we just shot, one of the reasons we had to re-shoot it is the bodies that we had before didn't look right. Also, we walked away from the first shooting day and we all felt a little bit stupid. It was just this situation where it just got out of hand. We were all like a bunch of 5 year olds. It wasn't really funny anymore. It was 5 year old humor.
Lauren Lee Smith: It looked funny and we were all getting into it but when it was done I think we were like, "What did we do?" But that's also what makes it fun.
Pathology hits movie theaters April 18th from MGM.
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Splatter Films Excerpt from
About.com 5/08: Lauren Lee Smith |
YouTube Interview with the Stars of Pathology: Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, and Michael Weston
How much did you study with real pathologists?
Milo Ventimiglia: "We spent a lot of time with the LA County Coroner's office. I mean, I saw about 17, 18 real autopsies and saw a couple hundred dead bodies. We spent a lot of time there. We strived to show the reality of what this world is, of what an autopsy is, of what a pathologist's job is. Of what an autopsy room - how it looks, how it feels, how it smells."
Describe the smell.
Milo Ventimiglia: "One of the worst things you're ever going to smell."
Lauren Lee Smith: "It's like you can't, really. There's no way to describe it."
Michael Weston: "It's like doody."
Lauren Lee Smith: "It's worse. It's worse than that."
Michael Weston: "It's like distant old doody."
Lauren Lee Smith: "The smell of death, basically."
Milo Ventimiglia: "You never forget it either. Like I was walking around somewhere and I smelled it after I'd been in the coroner's office. Like, 'Oh my god, there's something dead nearby.'"
Lauren Lee Smith: "Actually, that was the one thing out of spending all the time watching the autopsies and being in there. You sort of get used to it in a way, after about 15 minutes. But to me out of everything it was the smell that I found the most disturbing."
Michael Weston: "That lingered."
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And who do you play?
Milo Ventimiglia: "I play Dr Ted Grey. He's a guy who's kind of like on the straight and narrow. He has a great life ahead of him and he falls victim to like the seduces… Seduces?"
Lauren Lee Smith: "Seduction."
Milo Ventimiglia: "Seduction, thank you, of the characters Michael and Lauren play."
And who do you guys play?
Michael Weston: "The 'seduces'. I play Jake. We're these very high octane students at this place and I play the sort of leader of this group that corral people into this game. And Lauren and I have our relationship together and when Ted shows up he's like a really worthy opponent, and the most that's ever come along. We immediately realize that each other are the other's nemesis and we welcome each other into each other's lives."
Milo Ventimiglia: "It's a challenge but it's also going to be a lot of fun. You've finally got some kids to play with that are really going to push you."
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About.com Excerpt from
Comic Mix 9/29/08: Lauren Lee Smith Review ‘Pathology’ DVD
September 29, 2008 Robert Greenberger
Smith and Milanno had little to work with so were attractive accessories to the story.
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Comic Mix Excerpt from
Horror Movies.ca 1/4/14: Lauren Lee Smith New On Netflix Instant: Pathology Review
Additionally, majority of the cast also gave entertaining performances.
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Lauren Lee Smith (who plays Juliette) also took on a courageous role as the psychopathic temptress. (She definitely made the male audience happy!
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