St. Petersburg native, ‘Lie To Me’ co-star Monica Raymund ready to put in the work
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Deep in the bowels of the Sony Studios lot, Monica Raymund faces a microphone, trying to find a simpler way to criticize a smile.
It’s an odd ritual required in the making of modern TV. Raymund, playing a budding expert in nonverbal communication on Fox’s new crime drama Lie to Me, stands in a recording studio dubbing lines that either weren’t taped correctly when filmed, or that producers want to hear emphasized differently.
The line she’s struggling with is easy: “There’s something not right about her smile; she doesn’t look happy.” But the direction from producers — “make it simpler, like you’ve just discovered this” — is not.
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