【图片】Exclusive Interview: Erica Durance, from 'Smallville' Wednesda【超人前传吧】

Erica Durance will forever be Lois Lane. The Canadian actress came out of nowhere to snag the iconic role of Lois Lane on the popular CW drama Smallville a few years back and hasn't looked back since. Durance's Lois Lane is not your parents' Lois Lane either - Smallville fans can attest to that. What started as a part-time role, Lois Lane is now a regular and integral character on Smallville. Durance is currently in the middle of Smallville's seventh season and took the time to speak with us last week about her acting career and her time on Smallville
I guess I'll start off by going back a few years. Can you just tell us how you ended up in the role of Lois Lane on Smallville?
It was basically a little bit of a lottery, as everything is in this business, but I had been up here working in Vancouver for a long time -- this is where I live -- doing guest star roles, and just trying to make my way into the business. There was a rumor that this character was going to be coming on to Smallville, so my manager was telling me you need to get ready, we're gonna suss it out and we're going to find an audition. My husband is also my acting coach, so we got all trained up for it. I really didn't think much about it, because at this point I was not very enamored with the industry and the way things went, and I said okay, well I'll go in. I was a little bit begrudging about it because by that time I was ready for a break. True to form, that ended up being the one that I got. It just has been a real whirlwind since then. It started out as a four episode arc, and then they're like there's going to be a couple more, and a couple more, and so far it's been 13 every season, and now this is my fourth year in.

How much pressure was there for you, stepping into such an iconic character?
Well, there was huge pressure. There's pressure for anyone doing any role, but I think you hit it when you said it right there, it's a very beloved character. Everyone has their specific idea of who Lois Lane is for them, and you have your overall blueprint, but then you have to try to make it your own. That's the only way to try to stay truthful to what you're doing. In Smallville we had a little bit of extra leeway because we were just trying to play Lois younger, so I was able to make mistakes as Lois would make mistakes, just kind of finding her way in Smallville and finding out who she is. In the past few years we've kind of been introduced to Lois, her quirkiness, and the repartee she has with Clark, which is really fun. Then slowly, as the seasons have gone by, she's starting to find out that she really likes this journalism thing. She's getting to go out and do more and more, which of course I'm enjoying.

You joined a cast that had been together for a few seasons. Was it hard integrating yourself into that cast, especially at the beginning of your run when you were doing episodes here and there?
It was fun. Most people expect that there's going to be all sorts of chaos and such on the set, but this set is really, really cool. Everybody is very down to earth, so I was just able to find my way. I don't ever push it to be something that it's not. You just kind of go in, get to know people, then as things progress it gets better and better. Right from the start all of them were very open, very nice, and welcoming, so it was an easy fit for me.

No matter what you do for the rest of your career, for a lot of people you'll always be Lois Lane. What's your experience been like so far with the intense comic book crowd?
I have had many different types of experiences, ranging from people who absolutely loved what I'm doing, and it's been more so that way as people have really warmed to the idea. The folks that are really specific about where they want to see Lois, exactly how she should be, and she shouldn't even be in Smallville at this point in time, and very upset about the whole timeline. You just have to take it all with a grain of salt and be very appreciative that people are so interested in the first place, and that's why your show gets to stay on. People are engaged and they care what happens, so all you can do as an actor is go out there, do your best with what you're given, try to be really honest with it, then throw it out there. You get all types of reactions, and I've been to conventions in Europe and conventions all over the United States, so I've gotten quite a little pattern from many different people. For the most part people are really loving it, and I think that's why Smallville has stayed around, because people really love that Superman story and they're really engaged in it.

Is there anything about working on Smallville that you can tell us that a diehard fan might be surprised to hear?
I don't know if there's surprises, but people are always wanting a little bit of dirt, like do the girls not get along, or is there infighting on set. They'd be quite surprised to know that we actually do get along quite well, and go out for dinner and have those great times. If anybody has ever had a chance to be at a convention where they meet Michael Rosenbaum, they get to realize there's quite a difference between the character that he plays on set and his off camera, which is very very wild and constantly on the move. He likes to play lots of practical jokes and he's a comedian to the nth degree. You see this Lex character who is really uber dramatic, and he's an actor, he does a good job of it of course. But as soon as that camera goes off he's off on some kind of riff and he's telling some joke, so there's a lot of laughs on the set. I think that's what keeps it fresh, and keeps it so it's an enjoyable show to watch too. There isn't that angst that sometimes you get on TV shows.

Do you have a favorite episode that you've filmed for Smallville?
Each year kind of has a little highlight for me. What I love about Lois is that she's always doing something different, so in one I'll really be investigating like crazy, and in the other one I'll be fighting someone. I really like "Arrow" in the sense that I was always having to fight, and they were drowning me, even though I'm scared of that kind of thing. I'm kind of one of those people that likes to try to face up to some of those things that freak me out, and water freaks me out. I also liked...gosh, you do so many that you forget the exact names. The funny thing is that you'll play this on your website and the diehard fans will be like "it was that episode!" It was "Combat" which I quite enjoyed, and that was where I was fighting that girl in the cage, and I had to fight Clark. This year I've had a couple of good ones. I just finished one where I was being emotionally held hostage by one of the bad guys of the week, so I really had to be the reporter. As long as I'm keeping in there and it's busy and intense, I usually like it.

FHM has their top 100 sexiest women in the world every year. In 2005 you were number 63, in 2006 you were number 38, and this year you're number 20. Can you tell us your key to incrementally getting sexier every year?
I don't know what the key is. Maybe it's the idea that I'm doing more and involved in more, so people know me more, and that starts to be part of it. With age comes more beauty because you become more relaxed in yourself. I was laughing with my husband the other day, because one of our friends had come up and said "Now, there's all this talk about you and all your facial surgeries to become sexier and get higher on these lists." I laughed so hard, my husband and I had the greatest laugh about it. I often don't read those things on the internet, because there's too much negativity usually involved in that. But I would have to say these folks don't know me too well to think that I've done rhinoplasty and all those things. Besides the fact that I don't like the idea of being in surgery and going under, I have these freakish ideas that you'd be awake during surgery and it totally freaks me out. But also, ya know, a lot happens in a decade, and these people are on there going she's gotten her entire jaw done, and her nose done, and her eyes done, and liposuction, and I thought "Man, all my hours in the gym." In the gym, on the treadmill, that's where that stuff comes from. This is speaking from a woman's point of view, when you get older, and I'm talking about being 20 to 29, your face completely changes. So, I would like to say to those people that it is natural, and it is hard work, sweat, and having to eat a lot of broccoli.

What kind of projects would you like to do in the future? Are there any actresses whose careers you would like to emulate?
So many, for a lot of different reasons. I think the gals that I really look up to, and there's so many so I don't just want to say one or two, though I will anyways. I really like Ashley Judd, I love Sandra Bullock, I love Angelina Jolie, and I love Cate Blanchett. Anything that she does I just sit back and feel completely inadequate. The thing I love about these women is that they've all had different journeys and different pasts, they don't apologize for it, and they all pick something that they feel will challenge them at the time. Of course I don't have a window to their soul, but they do seem fearless, and they always want to pick something that is really interesting to them and not go along necessarily with what everybody else thinks that they should do. They just do it, and they don't make apologies for it, so I'd love at some point to be able to have some of those opportunities. That takes a lot of time, and it takes a lot of hard work, and these are ladies that have been working hard for a lot of years to be able to choose those scripts. I hope that someday I'm able to grow into even a portion of the types of actresses they are. They're all so independent

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独家专访：《超人前传》中的艾丽卡·杜兰斯(EricaDurance)
2007年12月12日星期三
艾丽卡·杜兰斯(EricaDurance)将永远是露易丝·莱恩(LoisLane)。几年前，这位加拿大女演员横空出世，在CW热门剧集《超人前传》中扮演了标志性角色露易丝·莱恩，此后就再也没有回头。杜兰斯饰演的露易丝·莱恩也不是你父母的露易丝·莱恩——《超人前传》的粉丝可以证明这一点。露易丝·莱恩最初只是一个兼职角色，现在已成为《超人前传》中的固定角色。杜兰斯目前正在拍摄《超人前传》第七季，上周她花时间与我们谈论了她的演艺生涯和她在《超人前传》中的时光。

我想我会先回顾几年前。你能告诉我们你是如何最终在《超人前传》中扮演露易丝·莱恩这个角色的吗？
这基本上有点像彩票，因为一切都在这个行业，但我已经在温哥华工作了很长一段时间——这就是我住的地方——客串明星角色，只是想让我的进入业务的方式。有传言说这个角色将出现在《超人前传》中，所以我的经理告诉我你需要做好准备，我们会弄清楚并寻找试镜机会。我丈夫也是我的表演教练，所以我们都接受了训练。我真的没有想太多，因为当时我对这个行业和事情的发展方式还不是很着迷，我说好吧，好吧，我会进去。我对此有点不情愿，因为通过那个时候我就准备休息了。一如往常，这最终就是我得到的。从那时起，这真是一场旋风。一开始是四集，然后好像还会有更多，更多，到目前为止，每季已经有13集了，现在已经是我的第四个年头了。压力有多大

你有机会扮演这样一个标志性的角色吗？
嗯，压力很大。任何人扮演任何角色都会有压力，但我认为当你说出来的时候你就击中了它，这是一个非常受人喜爱的角色。每个人对于露易丝·莱恩(LoisLane)的定位都有自己的具体想法，你也有自己的总体蓝图，但你必须尝试将其变成你自己的蓝图。这是忠实于自己所做事情的唯一方法。在《超人前传》中，我们有一点额外的余地，因为我们只是想扮演更年轻的路易斯，所以我能够犯错误，就像路易斯会犯错误一样，只是在《超人前传》中找到她的出路，并找出她是谁。在过去的几年里，我们或多或少地认识了路易斯，她的古怪，以及她与克拉克的妙语连珠，这真的很有趣。然后慢慢地，随着季节的流逝，她开始发现自己真的很喜欢新闻工作。
你加入了一个已经合作了好几季的演员阵容。融入演员阵容是不是很困难，特别是在节目刚开始的时候，你到处拍剧集？
好玩。大多数人都预计片场会出现各种混乱之类的情况，但这个片场真的非常非常酷。每个人都很脚踏实地，所以我才能找到自己的路。我从来不会强迫它成为它不是的东西。你只是进去，了解人们，然后随着事情的进展，它会变得越来越好。从一开始，他们就都非常开放、非常友善、热情，所以很适合我。

无论你余下的职业生涯做什么，对很多人来说你永远是露易丝·莱恩。到目前为止，您与众多漫画书爱好者相处的经历如何？
我有过许多不同类型的经历，其中包括那些绝对喜欢我正在做的事情的人，当人们真正热衷于这个想法时，情况就更是如此。人们非常明确地想在哪里见到露易丝，她到底应该是什么样子，她甚至不应该在这个时间点出现在超人前传，并对整个时间线感到非常不安。你必须持保留态度，并非常感激人们对第一件事如此感兴趣，这就是你的节目能够继续下去的原因。人们很投入，他们关心发生的事情，所以作为一名演员，你能做的就是走出去，尽你所能，尽力诚实地面对它，然后把它扔出去。你会得到各种各样的反应，而且我参加过欧洲的会议和美国各地的会议，所以我从许多不同的人那里得到了相当多的模式。在大多数情况下，人们真的很喜欢它，我认为这就是《超人前传》一直存在的原因，因为人们真的很喜欢超人的故事，并且他们真的很投入其中

关于《超人前传》的工作，你能告诉我们一些铁杆粉丝可能会感到惊讶的事情吗？
我不知道是否会有惊喜，但人们总是想要一点肮脏的东西，比如女孩们合不来，或者片场是否有内讧。他们会非常惊讶地知道我们实际上相处得很好，并且出去吃晚饭并度过了美好的时光。如果有人有机会在一次大会上见到迈克尔·罗森鲍姆，他们就会意识到他在片场扮演的角色和镜头外的角色有很大的不同，这个角色非常狂野且不断变化。他喜欢开很多恶作剧，是一位十足的喜剧演员。你会看到莱克斯这个角色真的非常具有戏剧性，而且他是一名演员，当然他做得很好。但一旦摄像机一响，他就会开始即兴表演，讲一些笑话，所以片场里充满了笑声。我认为这就是它保持新鲜感的原因，也是一个令人愉快的节目。并不存在电视节目中有时出现的那种焦虑。

您为《超人前传》拍摄的剧集中有最喜欢的一集吗？
每年对我来说都有一些亮点。我喜欢露易丝的一点是，她总是在做一些不同的事情，所以在一部中我会疯狂地调查，而在另一部中我会与某人战斗。我真的很喜欢《绿箭侠》，因为我总是不得不战斗，他们淹没了我，尽管我害怕那种事情。我是那种喜欢尝试面对那些让我害怕的事情的人之一，而水则让我害怕。我也喜欢......天哪，你做了太多，以至于你忘记了确切的名字。有趣的是，你会在你的网站上播放这个，而顽固的粉丝会说“就是那一集！”我非常喜欢《战斗》，那是我在笼子里和那个女孩战斗的地方，我必须和克拉克战斗。今年我有几个不错的。我刚刚完成了一部，其中我在情感上被本周的坏人之一扣为人质，所以我真的必须成为一名记者。只要我待在那里，而且忙碌而紧张，我通常会喜欢它。

FHM每年都会评选出全球100名最性感女性。2005年你排名第63位，2006年你排名第38位，今年你排名第20位。你能告诉我们你每年逐渐变得更性感的关键吗？
我不知道关键是什么。也许是因为我做得更多，参与更多，所以人们更多地了解我，这开始成为其中的一部分。随着年龄的增长，你会变得更加美丽，因为你自己变得更加放松。有一天，我和我丈夫一起笑，因为我们的一位朋友走过来说：“现在，所有这些都在谈论你和你所有的面部手术，让你变得更性感，在这些名单上排名更高。”我笑得很厉害，我和我丈夫笑得很开心。我通常不会在互联网上阅读这些内容，因为其中通常涉及太多负面内容。但我不得不说，这些人不太了解我，会认为我做过鼻整形术和所有这些事情。除了我不喜欢接受手术和接受手术的想法之外，我还有一些奇怪的想法，即你会在手术期间保持清醒，这让我感到非常害怕。而且，你知道，十年里发生了很多事情，我想“伙计，我所有的时间都在健身房。”在健身房里，在跑步机上，这就是这些东西的来源。这是从女人的角度来说，当你变老的时候，我说的是20到29岁，你的脸就完整了。所以，我想对那些人说，这是自然的，这是艰苦的工作、汗水和必须吃大量的西兰花。

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