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For all the Mutant X fans who've wanted to know the real reason Lauren Lee Smith (Emma deLauro) left Mutant X, Lauren herself finally answered the age-old question during a Q&A session at the L4 Event in London last month. Here's an excerpt:
Claire Mcbuffy: Mutant X. Your character left kind of unexpectedly. Um, and there’s a lot of rumour about how you left and why you left, I don’t know if you’re allowed to talk about it or not?
Lauren Lee Smith: Sure.
Mcbuffy: What exactly…
Lauren: I haven’t been on that show for years. I can say whatever I want!
Mcbuffy: Oh, that’s cool. What happened with your character? Did you leave or…?
Lauren: I did. Yeah.
Mcbuffy: You did. It was your choice.
Lauren: Yeah. It was, it was my choice. Um, I had done 44 episodes, um, and that’s a lot! A lot of…
Mcbuffy: It wasn’t the best show in the world…
Lauren: And it wasn’t the best show in the entire world. The expectations for the show were fantastic. And going into the show they had some really great ideas. And then half way through our budget went from like here *indicates high* to here *indicates REALLY low* And it just got… And they kept asking like, they kept asking me if I would wear less and less clothing in every episode. I was like yeeeah, I mean…yeah. When there’s not much else happening, going on in the show. And if you have to start…*Puts on a voice* Maybe if you start to wear a bikini throughout the whole thing we can get more people watching.
Anne Ramsey: Wow, did they really start doing that?
Lauren: Yeah. It was pretty crazy. So I was kind of like…It was a mutual thing. They were very nice about letting me go.
Mcbuffy: Well that’s good.
Lauren: Yeah, yeah. No hard feelings.
Mcbuffy: Well you and Ada…umm, I've forgotten his name. John?
Lauren: John Shea.
Mcbuffy: John Shea were kind of like the best things about the show, and you both left at the same time.
Lauren: Yeah, John was sort of in the same boat I was. We were both lead to believe we were…
Mcbuffy: I think you were both too good for the show, to be honest with you.
Lauren: Oh. *Laughs*
Mcbuffy: From a non fan-girl perspective. I think you were. You were the best thing about it. You had the weight of the show.
Lauren: Right. Well, quite honestly I had the strongest power. Sorry! But like I could have kicked everyone’s ass! So like… *Laughs*
Mcbuffy: That was the only sort of disappointing thing about you going, was the fact that they sort of started going to a dark place with your character.
Lauren: Right, and they kind of got stuck.
Mcbuffy: And it was interesting to see where it was going. And then of course you both left.
Lauren: Right. It was time. It was time to move on.
Many thanks to Claire McBuffy for reporting the answer!
Mutant X
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