Lindsey>  Well, the biggest factor for me was that I needed to pay the rent, and this is a network to get a job on.  So, I came out and I did this audition and obviously once you do the first audition and know that you’re coming back, your investment in the project, more than doubles, triples, quadruples.  So, you do a little more research and you find out who’s involved, and upon doing that, I found out that Gil Junger, the director, was going to do the same, and we were getting Larry Miller back, which was hugely exciting for me, somebody who kind of had defined themselves as a comedic actress thus far in my career.  I got to read the entire script, which I responded to immediately, and I could see myself doing it immediately, so those were the big points that kind of sucked me in.

Question> There is great chemistry between all of the cast members.  Did you find it to be instant, or did you have to work at it?

Lindsey>  No, it was instant.  I mean, every person on this cast is an artist and they’re dauntless, and they have mastered these characters, and everybody came in with this sort of confidence.  Nobody felt a real power trip, so there was nothing to get over.  It gelled, the second we met each other, and it’s been a joy to work with them ever since.  I respect all of them so much. 

Question> Have you had a most memorable moment from filming so far? 

Lindsey>  Most memorable moment.  Well, I had to do this drunk scene, this little dance if you will, and that was kind of intense.  It was like two hours at 7:00 in the morning of just drunken dancing.  So, you’re going to have to stay tuned to find out which episode that comes in at, but that was certainly memorable.

Question> From  where do you draw your inspiration for the character?  Did you take a lot from the movie, or do you just sort of try to do more of your own thing?

Lindsey>  I really did try to do my own thing, just because we’re not replicating the movie.  There’s no need for me to draw anything from the movie other than kind of a springboard for where these characters were at story wise.  So, I kind of drew the inspiration really a lot from my own life.  I feel so much like Kat in so many regards, and it was so funny.  As the season went on, as the scripts came out, I was reading these scenes that she either had with her father or with her friend or with Patrick, and I was thinking, “Wow.  I have talked to somebody like this at some point. I’ve had this intention in my mind.  I’ve experienced this frustration over this particular thing in the past.”  So, it was quite easy to draw from my own experience for a lot of who she is.  She is very frustrated, and I find myself very frustrated, as everybody does.  I find myself very frustrated at points in my life over particular issues like Kat, so that was ample, ample inspiration to draw from.

Question> What kind of different challenges do you find in this role than some of the other ones you’ve done so far?

Lindsey>  The other characters that I’ve played, like on Ned’s Declassified, that was a kid’s show.  It didn’t require a lot of character development.  And then I worked on Aliens in America, and I played this girl, Claire, who was for the most part fairly one note in that series, with the exception of a couple of episodes.  But this character, she obviously plays a big part in this series.  Therefore, the audience both has to root for her and feel bad for her, also be able to get mad at her and come back again.  You know what I mean?  She has this quality of likability, but being very strong, and sometimes it’s easy to go in one of those directions too far, and it doesn’t serve the character to lose that balance.  That’s what the producer and director were really their main points of helping me work on this first ten that we did, was just trying to find that balance and keep that balance between strength and softness.  That was such a challenge for me at times, and it was wonderful.  That’s one of the reasons that I fell in love with her in the beginning, and not only that, but I find so much of the balance that I’m trying to find with her, I find myself even bringing that over into my own life and thinking of some of those. So, it’s been really sort of a profound character for me to play thus far at this point in my career.

Question> What’s your favorite part about working on the show?

Lindsey>  Getting to work with all of the amazing people.  I think Gil Junger is one of the best directors I’ve ever worked with, and I hope to know him for a long, long time.  Carter and this entire cast and all of our team of writers, they’re just so inspirational and uplifting.  It was such a joy, such a creative space to work in every day.  To have all of them be your own age, you feel like you’re working with your friends, you know, and they are your friends.  That was basically it.  Always the people.

Question> Do you have sort of a favorite fan story or moment that you want to share with us?

Lindsey>  I had this really amazing fan write me this piece of fan mail, and inside it there was a CD.  It was from this band and they said, “Your art has inspired us, and we are sending you our CD to kind of say thank you and to share our art with you.”  It wasn’t even like a fan encounter.  It was like two artists talking to each other or just two people who have made a connection through art, who they’ve never even met, but they wanted to share their art.  I don’t know.  I was just so struck by that and so honored.  It felt like, I don’t know, we shared.  It was awesome. 

Question> With the show focused mainly on two girls dealing with high school in extremely different ways, what do you think young girls take away from watching the show?

Lindsey>  I think from this show young girls should see two role models, two people who fall down, but then get back up.  Two people who, for the most part in their minds, think that they’re doing the right thing.  Two people who make mistakes, but then can correct themselves.  You know what I mean?  I think that our failures in this show are just as educational as our successes, and I think that both of our characters have something to offer beyond girls learning to be more selfless, and Kat learning to be more in-tune, less righteous, more realistic.  So, I think that there are things that they can learn from both of these characters, and I think it would be a tragedy not to capitalize on what both characters have to offer. 

Question> Kat and Bianca’s dad is continually telling Bianca how she should more like Kat.  How do you think Kat could be more like Bianca?

Lindsey>  Bianca has this eternally optimistic spirit about her.  She always looks at the good, always has a positive spin to put on things, and I think Kat could benefit from that so much.  She so often goes completely to the other end of the spectrum, and just looks at things with this pessimistic attitude that a lot of times gets her into trouble.  I think Bianca’s eternal optimism, which is so much a part of Meaghan, like that’s a huge part of herself that she brought to this character, to learn from that is good, I think.  I think that’s an amazing quality, and Lindsey can also learn from Meaghan in that regard. 

Question> Your TV character, Kat, is rather different than the one in the movie, have you gotten any reactions from that?

Lindsey>  Well, I’ve really only gotten fan reactions, kind of, about it, which fans tend to enjoy it, and they tell me that they like it, and I’ve gotten their reaction.  The reviews seem to suggest that it’s a fairly balanced show, so I think that it’s been received well thus far.  I don’t know.  I feel kind of weird about answering this question.  Is that weird? I think that the show is balanced and that everybody’s doing a good job.  There’s my politically-correct answer.

Question> Some of your fans think you should have been cast as Bella in the movie Twilight.  What do you think about that?

Lindsey>  No, I have to tell you.  I’m sorry.  The last person who asked me about the greatest fan encounter, it was actually at a Best Buy, and this woman was helping me buy a computer.  This woman was in like, I mean, she was a middle-aged woman, like 50s.  We got to talking and for some reason, it takes hours to buy a computer, but we got to talking, and she was like, “What do you do?”  I was like, “I’m an actress.”  She was like, “Oh my God.  I knew it.  Bella from Twilight?”  It’s so awkward to correct that.  I always heard people telling me stories like that, but it’s extremely awkward in person.  I was just like, “No.  Have you ever seen 10 Things I Hate About You?” and she just looked at me.  So, that was the greatest fan encounter. In regards to that, I actually have no opinion of that either way, because have not educated myself at all with anything Twilight-related.  I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but I don’t know.  Thank you?  A big franchise? 

Question> What got you started in acting in the beginning?

Lindsey>  What got me started in acting.  Loaded question.  I don’t know.  Just always the urge to entertain.  I really like being the center of attention, which maybe is not the more solid reason to drop everything and move out to LA., but that’s what happened.  Luckily, my love for it just grew as I learned what it was to act, to be on a set, who prolific actors were, the spirit behind the work.  So, from there it just kind of grew and built, and luckily, I was able to stay out here.  It was purely luck. 

Question> If it hadn’t worked though, when you weren’t acting, what do you think you’d be doing now?

Lindsey>  I would be in school 100%.  I would be in school studying some kind of science, biology, or quantum physics.  That’s such a leap and perhaps better things I could be doing with my life, but I like playing pretend, so science can wait.

Question> What would be your ultimate dream role if you could just pick and choose?

Lindsey>  To do a peace thing like the 60s.  Just to do some kind of revolution, I’m very drawn to that.  I would totally be in for any revolution we have nowadays.  Just the spirit of that time and the culture of that time is so fascinating that I would love to be able to have an excuse to completely submerge myself in it, you know?

Question> Would you ever be interested in writing or directing, or are you just for the acting?

Lindsey>  I would love to write something.  Writing was a huge passion of mine when I was younger, and somehow I stopped, which is horrendous.  But I love writing, just stories and novels.  I don’t know about scripts, but just stories, short stories.  

Question> Do you take social issues into account when you take a role?  Do you try to align it with your moral standing on things?

Lindsey>  Of course.  Of course you try to align it with your moral standing on things.  I mean, I would never do any sort of commercial or advertisement that advertised anything with meat in it.  But on this show, I don’t think that there is anything heavy enough that goes on that my moral compass would be skewed.  Obviously, you try to pick projects in line with yourself, but I would never go out and kill somebody, but I would also play a killer.   I could also play that role.  So, you do it as much as you possibly can, but I sort of reserve that for me myself.  Lindsey would not condone that, but my character…Basically I don’t feel like anything on this show would be grounds for me to be going up in arms about anything, you know what I mean?  Of course, in your line of work, you want to align yourself with projects that you would like to promote.

Question> Do you see any onset romances developing?

Lindsey>  You know, anything can happen on a set.  We’re there for many hours together.  So, I’m not going to rule anything out at this point.  I think that that would just be a hindrance on the possibilities.  So, I’m going to say perhaps.

Question> Were you surprised when you first saw the script for the TV show?  Were you surprised that they were making a show out of this movie that had been so popular?

Lindsey>  I think surprised for a second.  I saw it and I was like, “Cool.  Let’s go to work.”  I was not shocked.  You know what?  You get more and more confidence as all the scripts come out and you see that this is a good show, and that it wasn’t just thrown together.  There was a lot of thought put into it.  So, it’s a really great show, completely independent of the movie, so that’s what not surprises you, but just brings it all full circle.

Question> What was the auditioning process like for the role of Kat?

Lindsey>  Actually, it’s funny.  I was working on this small independent film at the time, and I had to get days off, like one day off for this audition from the director.  He was wearing all the hats of the production, so obviously he was a little frazzled.  So, after much coaxing, he gave the morning off so I could go and audition, and I did an audition for Carter Covington, the executive producer, and he really liked me.  I got a call later that day that told me that I was going straight to network, which was super exciting, and then I ended up booking it.  We went to network and we met up.  I did the chemistry read with Meaghan, and I got called that I had gotten it.  The first call that I made was to that director to thank him for rearranging his schedule so I could actually go on that first audition.  Yes.  It was pretty awesome that way, I mean it was really like just the hands of fate were like okay.  It all works out.  Stars all align.

Question> Is there any scene that you filmed that didn’t end up in the final cut that you wished did?

Lindsey>  Nothing really much of our show was ever cut.  There might have been a line here or there, but certainly not a whole scene, so no.  I’m glad everything made the show, especially all of my stuff.

Question> Is there anything that did make it that you wished they had cut?

Lindsey>  Oh, well we’re just going to have to wait until episode nine until you see the drunk party stuff, and then you can tell me if there’s anything that they should have cut, because that was quite an episode for me.  So, I don’t know.  It would have to be something from that episode.

Question> Do you watch yourself back a lot or is that hard for you?  Do you criticize yourself?

Lindsey>  I do.  I criticize probably 95% of it.  There will be like a look, then I’ll be like, “I guess I’m satisfied.”  I don’t know.  Think of what it’s like to watch yourself back in family videos or friend videos.  It’s awkward.  It really is, and you have to think, “Two million people are going to watch this and did that look weird?  Was that a bad angle?  Was I completely off base on that?”  You know what I mean.  Usually you are, which only gives you room to go improve.  Adhir Kalyan, I worked with him on Aliens in America.  He told me that when you’re completely satisfied with an entire performance, you should probably rethink that performance, because to be satisfied is to think that it’s perfect, and that’s definitely not where I’m at yet.

Question> Do you have any new projects coming up soon or that haven’t come out yet?

Lindsey>  I don’t have time to go book any other job, so no.  No, I don’t have anything.  Here is the awkward question where I’m asked if I have anything, and I have to say, “No, I’m just sitting here watching reruns of Nurse Jackie.”

Question> According to the show's website, there’s Devolved and Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega.  Can you talk about them a bit?

Lindsey>  Wow, I completely forget about those, just because I’ve seen them, so I think that they already…But I did do these two independent films called Devolved and Nic & Tristan, and I have no idea when they’re slated to come out, but I did do those, so be checking your Blockbusters for any of those.  One of them, Devolved, is a teen Lord of the Flies satire, a modern-day Lord of the Flies satire, and Nic & Tristan is about these two prodigy 10-year-old skateboarders who they actually are prodigy 10-year-old skateboarders.  The movie was written around them, and I play this absolutely insane baby-sitter, like out of her mind.  Yes.  Thank you for reminding me of that.  I do have those two things coming out. 

Question> Could you run us through like a typical day on the set?

Lindsey>  Yes.  Absolutely.  So, you get there.  It’s 6:00 or 7:00 a.m.  You go straight into hair and makeup, and that is about an hour and 15, an hour and a half.  During that time, you get your breakfast brought to you, which is amazing, and then you go get dressed.  Usually they time it out perfectly, right as you’re putting on your last shoe, Lizzie, our PA is knocking on the door saying, “Go to set.”  We go up there.  We rehearse, and they finish the lighting up, then we start in.  It’s literally like we have to be going fast, because we’ve got four days to complete what is usually done in five days.  So, you’re literally not sitting down during the day.  You get done with one scene, the director’s already in the next location for the next scene, so it’s constant after that unless you’re not in that scene.  Then you break for lunch.  You have your lunch, you chill, read, sleep.  I was almost 89% of the time sleeping, and get back up, go to hair and makeup for touchups, and you go in and you finish the rest of your day.