La Rue: It Happened Completely By Accident

The third time is the charm.

Getting started on CSI: Miami wasn't easy for Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista). "I really thought it wasn't going to happen and it happened completely by accident," La Rue explained to TV Addict. She missed the first audition because her daughter Kaya nearly drowned. "I was like, forget it, I'm not going, I'm too traumatized, like oh my god, my kid almost died while I sat there and watched her," La Rue said. "So I didn't go."

Natalia wasn't cast during the first round of auditions, so they had producer callbacks. Once again, La Rue didn't make it. "I had to be back in NY again to finish up my final shooting day with Modern Girls' Guide to Life," she explained. "I was still under contract to them, and I had to shoot this final episode, so I missed the audition again." La Rue thought, "this is just not meant to be," but luckily for her, they still had not cast the role.

"They called me the next day and said, go put yourself on tape in NYC. This role starts next week," La Rue said. The audition went so badly that she thought she should quit the business. "There was all this technical scientific jargon. I had no time to really prep the material. So I had five passes that went horrifyingly." In the end, however, things worked out. "On the fifth time, I finally got, and I walked out thinking 'well that was a big waste of time for everybody'," La Rue admitted. "I sent it on Friday, they viewed it on Monday, and they cast me on Tuesday."

The scientific terms may have tripped La Rue up during her audition, but now that she's on the show, she doesn't have to worry about that. Miami has technical advisors like Mike Scott, who was the head of the homicide department in the LA county sheriff's office for 18 years. He walks the actors through the procedures, explains how to do everything and gives them the story behind the process. "He's just this absolute veritable encyclopedia of stories and occurrences and situations, so we literally learn on the job," La Rue explained. "I find it endlessly fascinating."

"You know what, I never thought it would be interesting," the actress said, referring to her character's job. She was never good at science in school, but seeing the application of science is something she understands better. "Kind of like a logical summary of events," she explained. "Then you're also fascinated by how it turns out. The puzzle pieces all being put together. I can see how it could be a really fascinating job. The reality of is that I don't think I could do it because it's too much dead people."

The real job might be dark, but the set of Miami is anything but. "We don't really see the dark side, for us it's just a bunch of words, and we can all go home," La Rue said. "I think I can speak for everybody when I say that there is definitely not a somber feeling on the set, ever. It's a very light, funny, happy group of people."

So what's in store for the end of Miami's sixth season? "The season finale is awesome," La Rue revealed. "It's going to be an incredible cliffhanger. It's going to start the next season. All I'll say is that somebody gets killed, somebody else gets shot and you're not sure if they're going to make it. And then one of our other characters leaves, because Khandi [Alexander (Alexx Woods)] leaves. We have a lot going on."

The original article is from the TV Addict.

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