La Rue: We're The Number One Show In The World

Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) has a view from the top.

CSI: Miami might not be the number one show in the United States, but the rest of the world is talking about the sun-drenched member of the CSI franchise. "[W]e are the number one show in the world," La Rue told PR.com. "And we just found out two weeks ago that we're the number one show in the world, ever!" Miami broke the record previously held by Baywatch as the most widely-viewed show in the world. Baywatch was shown in 140 countries, but CSI: Miami has easily surpassed that number. "We're in two hundred and twelve countries," La Rue explained, "and we're number one in the majority of the countries."

La Rue made the move from daytime to primetime when she left All My Children and ultimately ended up on Miami. "It is night and day!" She said, describing the process of making a soap opera versus the process of making an episode of the hit crime drama. "In daytime, you're doing sometimes fifty pages of dialogue a day," she continued. "It's a mind numbing amount of studying and memorization that you have to do on a daily basis. Now doing nighttime TV, we shoot maybe, eight pages a day and it's usually not all your scenes. So it's lovely." La Rue also talked about the overall presentation of the shows and how they differ. Primetime shows have "got bigger budgets, they have computer editing and beautiful lighting. On soaps they don't have those big budgets. They don't have time to do fabulous MTV-like editing. They don't have these big music budgets, and they don't have time to do all this great lighting and lighting set up," she explained. "So it looks cheesier, which is too bad, because actors that are in daytime are awesome actors."

"When I've had Latino roles, it's always been a really great character," La Rue said. What she liked the most is that she has never portrayed a stereotype. "Like my role in All My Children," she explained, "I was a brain surgeon and my role here on CSI: Miami, my character is a Latino character [who's] a scientist. I'm a DNA specialist. So, I love that I'm not, and I never have had to play the hooker, the maid, the nanny or the illegal alien."

"One of the shows we are doing right now has got an awesome ending to it. It's got such a great twist at the end," La Rue revealed. Other storylines that she loves to film are "the ones that keep you on the edge of your seat, and they keep you turning the page when you read the script. But I also love the interpersonal ones, where you find out a little bit more about the actual foibles and the human characteristics of the CSI team."

Working on Miami has given La Rue the opportunity to gain new knowledge. "I find it so fascinating because while you're there, the technical advisors are telling you stories about either some similar way that they actually caught somebody or a similar case or case study," she said. She went on to say that "the field of forensics has become more of an exact science" and that this has resulted in more accuracy solving crimes and finding perpetrators. "They will find you," La Rue said of the forensic investigators. "You can't not leave some part of yourself there. There is no way you can come into contact with another human body and not leave behind a piece of evidence."

The original interview can be found at PR.com.

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