00:00I will start with Laurie. So what attracted you the most to the character of Lieutenant Bishop
00:08and how would you describe her leadership style? Well, jokingly I always say what attracted me was
00:18two words, Dick Wolf, because who doesn't want to be working on a Dick Wolf project?
00:23But I was just really honored to be offered the role of Bishop. It is such a different character
00:30than characters I've played in the past. I love her strength, her determination, her no-nonsense
00:37style. She's no BS. I think you don't always maybe know what her motives are, but I think
00:44she has a good heart and her heart is in the right place. I credit Eric as our director,
00:51really helping me find Bishop and really pushing me, as you said earlier, to be unapologetic in my
01:00approach in playing the character. I'm more diplomatic, she's more direct, and she is
01:05unapologetic. And Eric really helped me find that voice. And once I found it, then it was like you
01:11said, we could add on the layers. She had a party with it when she found it. And she found it early
01:17on too. It was challenging in this show to balance your responsibilities as an actor, director,
01:27executive producer. And what do you like the most? What do you enjoy the most? I love it all.
01:33I love it. It's just different aspects of storytelling. I mean, at the end of the day,
01:38I love working with actors. I'm always an actor in my heart. I love working with actors.
01:44I love treating actors and empowering actors in ways that I've always wished I had in my career.
01:52And I have in various situations and sometimes not. And that's just the nature of it.
01:58But having an opportunity to empower an actor, to give an actor a challenge or to give them a type
02:07of role they haven't normally had, because I know what kind of joy I get from that. So that's
02:15the nitty gritty of just like that's the big passion. I love visual storytelling. I love
02:22putting a camera in a certain way and knowing I have these wonderful performances on this end.
02:28But how does the camera assist that? How does it pull the audience in? So storytelling, I love it all.
02:36Lori, what message do you hope the audience takes away from the show,
02:43especially from the human part of the police work?
02:50You know, for me, when I sit down to watch a show, I just want to be entertained.
02:56I want to forget my own problems. I want to go on a fun journey with the characters.
03:02And I think we really offer that in this show. We have very interesting characters. I think the
03:06dynamic between the characters will suck an audience in. And the show is very energetic
03:13and it's high stakes and it's cinematic. It's beautiful to look at. But at the end of the day,
03:18I think it's the relationship between the characters that will keep the audience coming back.
03:24And for you, Eric, what do you think?
03:27The same thing. I mean, I think, you know, we have a new style of storytelling. It's a
03:33half hour drama that we pack an hour and a half worth of action and intrigue and character into.
03:41So I love that challenge. I love the different ways we shoot it. Body cam, dash cam, drones,
03:50telephones. We use so many different medias of capturing because that also represents where we
03:55are in society right now. But at the end of the day, you take everything away at the end of the
04:02day. I just love good characters and good storytelling with characters at the end of the day.
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