Image Credit: Trae Patton/NBCPlaying Sophia, the leader of the mysterious detainees on NBC‘s The Event (Mondays, 9 p.m. ET), does come with its advantages for Laura Innes. For instance, when she asked the producers, “So what’s the deal?” on her second meeting with them, they actually told her enough of the plot to make her jaw drop. “They have it all arc’d out, and my character, I’m assuming, knows the most about what the end game is. So I know, and Jason [Ritter] and Blair [Underwood] are in the dark, which is as it should be. I think that I’m the only trustworthy person on that show obviously,” she joked to EW this morning. “They’re trying to trick me into telling them, often. They’ll just try to toss it out. ‘So, Laura… what’s with that event?’ My kids are going crazy. My nine-year-old daughter, every morning: ‘Tell me what the event is, mother.’ But I can’t tell.” Let’s see what we can get out of her:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Who’s the hardest person to keep the secret from?
LAURA INNES: I think Jason, just because he’s so sweet. You kind of want to tell him everything about your life. And he’s a good listener. So I kind of wanted to tell him. But I have been good at keeping it from him.
What’s the best bribe someone has offered you?
That would have to be my daughter, who said, “I will give you a quarter if you tell me what the event is.” I was like, “Tempting. But I think you have to keep that quarter for yourself.” I’m amazed. We were just doing Kathie Lee and Hoda and half the guys on the crew were like [shouts], “What happened to the plane?” “What’s the event?” So people are interested. We’re happy. We just want them to be more interested. READ FULL STORY »
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