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Lucy Lawless' Hurricane Scare
October 26, 2005
ET Online
Kiwi powerhouse LUCY LAWLESS
was filming her new CBS TV movie "Vampire Bats" in New Orleans when
Hurricane Katrina hit. ET's KEVIN FRAZIER talked to the star about her new
thriller, and her terrifying encounter with the hurricane.
When the rating on Katrina was upped to a Category 5, filming for 'Bats' was
abruptly halted, and Lucy had to wait out the storm in Baton Rouge. Filming
was then moved to Nova Scotia.
Lucy told Kevin, "To our chagrin it turned out to be way worse than you
could ever have imagined. On the morning before, I woke up and they were
saying 'Category 5' and I rang the remaining people of our production and
said 'Let's get out of here -- we owe it to our kids to get home. Thankfully
we managed to get out of town in time."
Lucy recalls an especially painful memory of the hurricane, "There were some
tourists who had been dropped off the day before ... and they had no
supplies. I gave them what supplies I had, and there were too many of them
to take with us. My everlasting shame is that I did not give them the rental
car that I had. I thought 'Well, it's the production car, it's not really
mine to give,' and now I don't know what became of them. I will never, never
forget that I didn't help those people."
"Vampire Bats" stars Lucy as Dr. Maddy Rierdon and DYLAN NEAL "Dawson's
Creek," as her husband Dan Dryer. The two are reprising their roles from the
suspenseful TV movie "Locusts," which aired earlier this year.
Maddy is a professor who turns investigator when one of her students is
found dead and drained of blood, with mysterious puncture marks all over his
body. When more dead bodies are found, in the same mysterious condition,
Rierdon begins to realize that the people were killed by an aggressive
strain of vampire bat, which have mutated because of a contaminated water
supply.
So first Lucy tackled locust, and now she's battling bats -- why? "It seems
to be what I do -- save the world!" she says.
"Vampire Bats" is this weekend's CBS Sunday Movie, and will be airing
October 30th 9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT, just in time for Halloween!
Watch ET tonight for more on Lucy and her frightening film!
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