Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors, Psychics, & Tomb Raiders

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors, Psychics, & Tomb Raiders
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"Grey's Anatomy" star discusses Lara Croft voice-over
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Hi, my name is Camilla Luddington and I'm from Grey's Anatomy.
And she's a doctor, so I might pretend to faint.
CPR. I won't be able to help you whatsoever.
The lovely Camilla Luddington. Sit next to me. How are you?
Hello. I'm good, thank you, thank you, thank you.
You're You're ridiculous. Which someone just said which in England we wouldn't say that, would we? For something good. We'd say amazing, epic.
We'd say amazing. Brilliant. Gorgeous. Blush. All of the above.
Um, George thinks so as well. Two wonderful females on a sofa, this is brilliant. And you're a wonderful doctor.
If I was to pass out, that that's questionable.
You're learning.
I'm learning.
You're learning the ropes. Yeah. So Grey's Anatomy, that's amazing. It really is good. Yes. Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
And you're playing Dr. Jo Wilson.
I am.
Was it hard to become a doctor? Are you familiar with doctors?
Actually, the one thing they did send us to do is the first week of work, they said us to go see a real operation, an open-heart surgery. And that was crazy, disgusting, awful. Yeah, it was. And it was five hours in in a surgery.
It's disturbing for the person that's having it done. Do they know?
Well, they get to Oh my God. Hollywood abusing someone in hospital. I'm pretty No, he knew because he was chatting with
How do you know he knew?
He was He was chatting to us before we we he went under, yeah.
Oh, I thought you meant why he was having it done. So, there you go. There's my heart.
No. No, no. He has to sign something, I mean, actually the night before there had been an earthquake. And when I was stood, because I thought they would have us stand really far away, too, and I was stood at the guy's head looking down into his open chest. And I was shaking so much that I thought that there was another earthquake.
So, you're doing really well. You're doing brilliant. Um, have you had to learn like all the terms and stuff like that, or I guess because you're
Slowly. Slowly. Yeah. They give you like a cheat sheet so that on your first day of work or you know, first day of the episode, you get all the terms and then what they mean.
Saying that, we've got uh we want to test your uh your doctor's abilities.
Oh God, okay.
Um, with Operation. Classic game, which neither of us have played, so this should be interesting.
This actually looks like the set of Grey's Anatomy right now. Oh, can I do this as well? Can I actually ask you what parts we're removing? You should know that, shouldn't you?
Sure. Okay. I'm going to go first. What What am I taking out now? Smiley face. No, that's not the correct term. Um, the amaryllis. I definitely just made that up. Just go for it, though. You're a good liar.
I know. I know. Oh, crap. I think you've just killed whoever this is.
No, it's just a little bit of pain. Oh, no. You've ruined it. Okay, hang on. Oh, no, I'm like. Yes. My go again. It's good, I'm I'm not This is so hard. How do kids play this? I don't know what this is. You're not even trying.
No, I am trying. Trying properly. Ah.
zero. And what is that that you pulled out?
thing.
What have you been doing on the show that you can tell us? Just laughing, having fun. Tell us about it. Come on.
Well, this week the episode is being told from the intern's point of view. And uh I am working with Karev in the Peds ward and we do not get along. We hate each other. And and that is very frustrating to her. So they definitely have some drama there. And also a woman goes into labor and Jo is by herself and she has to deal with that for the first time. And fun fact, people, when when
They sound exciting. I know, right? That's a great for Grey's Anatomy. Like, the the baby when when they get birthed, they smother it in cream cheese and jelly. A real baby?
No, that will probably be Wait. Whoa. Hang on, you just told me that Grey's Anatomy go to a hospital and watch live open-heart surgery. So I don't know what they do on that show. We're definitely not stealing babies and and covering them in jam.
But you do Shows do use real babies, don't they? At some point.
They do, but not for that part. Not for that part. No. And then they switch a real baby in.
Yeah. Not covered in cream cheese.
Exactly.
But you've got lots of other exciting things going on.
I do. I have Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider. Lara Croft.
Lara Croft.
How did that happen?
I went in for an audition and originally it wasn't called uh Tomb Raider. It was it had a code name, Cryptid, and I had no idea what it was about. But I remember reading the character sides and thinking, she kind of sounds like Lara Croft. So I actually went in boots and shorts and my hair pulled back. I had to do this very strange auditioning audition where that you had to, like, run and jump and do all these weird things, cuz I do motion capture. Yeah. As well as acting outside. And then that's how I got it. Um, and now the
you're so you're in the video game. You're the voice Have you played it?
I've actually played it, yes. And I I've seen somebody play the game the entire way through, it took two days, and I watched the whole game. It's really weird. Because
You watched them for two days? Yeah. That's stalking.
Trust me, I know. They didn't know about it. Just through the window. Just through the window. No.
A little bit weird. A little bit weird. Is it weird when you're playing it and, like, something Cuz obviously she can get injured and stuff.
It is. Especially cuz she dies in such terrible ways. Right. Which my brothers will just have a field day with because they told me they're just going to kill me over and over if I piss them off. Um, I actually spent a day in the ADR booth just dying. Like, drown Any possible way I could die, like drowning, being stabbed, set on fire, whatever it is. I had to spend a day just dying. A lot of stuff.
Can we reenact some of them sounds? Just put me on the spot like that. Go, do it. Bring it on.
Um, stabbed. Shoot. Oh, no. That was a bad one. You know what was hard to do was drowning. I've got to think of some way to reenact drowning. Water. It's something like that. Please play the game. I'm a lot better in an ADR booth.
And then True Blood as well.
True Blood, yes. Played on True Blood, yes. That was an amazing role because I was such a huge fan of True Blood before I got on the show. And I was just like, Oh my God, it's Alexander Skarsgård. And I was embarrassing.
He does my nut in. He does my head in. Everyone is just obsessed with his bum. Really?
Yes. I I walk around Coachella with him and people used to just stop him and look at his bum.
But your characters are telepathic as well.
Yes. And we can shoot light and kill people and it's it's very cool.
I'm going to tell you something right now. Right? Really? Okay. What's wrong with that? Hang on. Definitely not. No. No chance. Okay. Then we should definitely wrap it up. We should definitely wrap it up, then. I have learned nothing from you today. I've Nothing about hospitals. I'm bad at everything. I'm a mess. Can you at least do CPR?
Absolutely not. Because you know what my next move would be.
Anyway, all right. We're done.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Camilla Luddington
The subject of the interview, actress
- Jo Wilson
Character played by Camilla Luddington on 'Grey's Anatomy'
- Karev
Character from 'Grey's Anatomy' mentioned by Camilla
- Lara Croft
Video game character voice-acted by Camilla Luddington
- Alexander Skarsgård
Actor mentioned by Camilla regarding 'True Blood'
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