The Balance is Hard to Find
Interview with Marla Sokoloff
interview by Cynthia Fuchs , 2 February 2001 Marla Sokoloff may be best known for playing the sorta punky Lucy Hatcher on David E. Kelley's popular series, The Practice . Sokoloff has good reason to think that most people know her as Lucy. When the character first appeared, as the receptionist at Bobby Donnell's law firm, Sokoloff received some unnerving hate mail, suggesting, among other things, that Lucy was offensive or too weird, and that Sokoloff be fired from the show. It's a good thing that Sokoloff doesn't take such things personally. In fact, she's refreshingly self-possessed, funny, and bright, just turned twenty years old and looking forward to the time when she'll be offered a role in a movie that's not set in high school. Still, high school movies have been good to her: she worked with her boyfriend, James Franco, on Whatever It Takes , and has recently appeared in a teen-movie hit, Dude, Where's My Car? She laughs when she recounts the different reactions people have had to Dude : "They make fun of me, or they say, you're finally in a movie that made over two bucks." | |
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