‘I Like Playing Someone I’m A Little Bit Afraid Of’: Actor Elizabeth Mitchell On ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘Lost’

(CBS Local)- Elizabeth Mitchell has been a household sanction successful Hollywood for years and 1 of the main reasons is that she loves taking connected roles that scare her and situation her. The histrion champion known for playing Dr. Juliet Burke successful the deed bid “Lost” precocious appeared successful play 2 of the Netflix bid “Outer Banks” arsenic Carla Limbrey and has a caller movie coming retired Friday, October 1 called “Witch Hunt.”

CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith precocious spoke with Mitchell astir her vocation successful Hollywood, her knack for joining TV shows that are already hits and her memories of filming “Lost” successful Hawaii and wherefore she was fascinated by the galore antithetic layers of her quality Juliet.

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“I look to hop onto truly large shows aft they go great,” said Mitchell. “The joyousness of that is they person their dependable and I conscionable get to travel successful and play and the value of it is not connected my shoulders. It’s a presumption I emotion to beryllium successful and I emotion joining fantastic things. I genuinely can’t messiness it up due to the fact that I’m not the happening making it large successful the archetypal place. That is thing arsenic an histrion that I tin bash again and again and again. I get to travel successful and bash weird, unusual worldly and it doesn’t truly substance due to the fact that I’m not going to impact the show. I similar playing idiosyncratic I’m a small spot acrophobic of.”

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Mitchell says that her “Outer Banks” quality Limbrey is not a large quality and she liked the situation of figuring retired however to play this woman. The histrion felt likewise astir playing Juliet successful “Lost.” It’s been implicit a decennary since the last occurrence of the bid and galore shows are inactive trying to replicate the look that made the ABC play a monolithic success.

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“Lost was terrifying due to the fact that it was specified a large show,” said Mitchell. “When I got the audition, I said I’m not going to spell bash that. Nobody is going to get connected Lost. Luckily, I had conscionable had a babe and I had been doing immoderate enactment connected my location and I had conscionable fallen disconnected a ladder and breached my ft and wrist. I was successful present way, signifier oregon signifier acceptable to instrumentality connected nerves, truthful I conscionable went successful determination to bash it. Lost was truly a small antithetic due to the fact that I truly did person an knowing of Juliet from the infinitesimal I work her. She made consciousness to me. It’s not ever the lawsuit and I person to enactment connected a batch of these guys. Lost was entertaining and actor’s imagination piece.”