Hot Gallery: Ben McKenzie, Shawn Hatosy, Michael Cudlitz, and Lucy Liu Reflect on the Road to Southland
The cast of Southland portrays tough-as-nails officers on the mean streets of Los Angeles. They patrol gang-infested areas, raid drug dens, get in stand-offs with armed, mentally unstable men and women, and chase suspects who refuse to go down without a fight. Needless to say, they are authority figures on the show, but during a recent set visit, the cast opened up to Snakkle about life not always imitating art. By Danielle Turchiano“When I was in Stuyvesant [High School], I didn’t know myself. I was kind of just doing things by rote because when I was younger—when I was really young—I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I knew that that wasn’t going to be possible. It just didn’t seem feasible. It wasn’t even on the radar for me or my family,” Liu admits. “I was struggling because I didn’t have an idea of where I was going. I think when you have a better idea, it just helps guide you, but I had none of that guidance.… Once I left the city [for college], I really began to understand who I was and have a sense of myself for the first time.”
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