Lie To Me Scoop

PerthNow published an article about Tim Roth and the show. I’ve included an excerpt below, but I’m waiting to hear back for permission to publish the entire thing. While some of the info isn’t new, there are some cool little bits dispersed throughout it, including how Tim’s obviously a perfectionist. Of course, he makes a comment at the end that could put a damper on the longevity of the show. But, if all goes well in season two, hopefully he’ll change his mind! (That is, if I even understood him right to begin with.)

Lawrie Masterson
May 13, 2009 10:00pm

Tim Roth puts lie to the theory that acclaimed movie actors don’t star in television series.

Cal Lightman has just told a senior-ranking police officer that the man’s head is up his … well, in a place where it is exceptionally difficult to put one’s head. For good measure, Lightman repeats it slowly, almost as if obliged to so even a cop can understand: “Your … head … is … up … your …” You get the picture.

Tim Roth, who plays Lightman in the new Network Ten series Lie To Me, appears to nail the scene perfectly during each of six takes, but then he wanders off the set on Sound Stage 8 at the 20th Century Fox lot in LA’s Century City mumbling to himself about his inability to correctly pronounce the cop’s Eastern European-sounding name. Everyone else seems happy except Roth, the 47-year-old British star of movies such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Roy Roy (1995), for which he received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

He has a reputation for intensity but he blows it completely five minutes later, climbing into a director’s chair on an adjoining set and happily answering questions until he is dragged away to shoot another scene for what is his first TV series.

Cal Lightman is principal of The Lightman Group, a team of experts who assist government and law enforcement agencies with their most difficult cases. Through analysis of body language, speech and expressions they can read feelings ranging from sexual attraction to hidden resentment and pinpoint whether or not someone is lying. Based on the real-life scientific studies of University of California psychology professor emeritus Paul Ekman, the ability can be both a blessing and a curse and it spooks Roth slightly.

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Source: PerthNow