Peripatetic.
Its a lovely word that can add a hint of romance to describe how Lauren Lee Smith seems to spend much of her life hopping from location to location.
The Vancouver-based actress spent the winter filming CTVs in Toronto. But when the Season 4 premiere was set and shot in Vancouver, she got to fly back home for a few days.
Its pretty ideal, she says one early spring morning after shooting a scene in Stanley Park with co-star (whos a partner in Yaletowns Raw Canvas.)
The previous day was spent chasing Smiths five-year-old nephew around the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Art Gallery and catching up with her mother and brother, visiting all their favourite haunts.
When theres enough time, she also makes pitstops at the house she shares with her husband, a director of photography, at Colpitt Lake. (Its just so beautiful and isolated there.)
Isnt it exhausting to spend so much time in so many different places?
Doesnt she wish she could set down more permanent roots?
She smiles.
Im pretty adaptable to a fault, she says. I get antsy staying in one place. I always want to be on the move, which drives my husband crazy.
Its also the life she grew up with. In her youth, we were kind of vagabonds. Every year we packed up and moved somewhere.
Home if only for a year included Costa Rica, France, Korea and all over the US. We either lived in guarded palatial mansions or one-bedroom hotel rooms. Our childhood was definitely an adventure.
So while she goes through phases where shed like more stability, it usually only lasts about six months.
When shooting the CTV series wraps up, shell be able to dedicate more time to , a feature film shes starring in and producing with Terry Miles, who calls it a love letter to cinema.
The two worked together on his previous film, The Night for Dying Tigers (which is available only in the US on Netflix), and their new venture once again features Jennifer Beals as well as Ben Cotton, Gabrielle Rose and Catherine Michaud. Smith plays the estranged daughter of a prominent Canadian filmmaker.
After he dies, she goes through his films to create a memorial and discovers that self-destructive patterns can also be inherited.
Season 4 of The Listener premieres on CTV at 10pm on May 29.
