 Where some actors will work
on a show and not have that much interest in what has gone
before, preferring to concentrate their attention cm the
role they are playing, Jane wanted to know how Genevieve
fitted into the intricate patterns that the Smallville
scriptwriters and producers had been creating over the
previous three-and-ahalf years. "1 kept saying, 'What's
this? What's that?"' she recalls. "'Why is this
happening?' 'What are these crystals? Fill me in!"'
In fact, as events have shown, much of the information I hat
we have learned about the crystals has actually come froth
scenes in which Jane has appeared, and the producers' quest
for the keenest scripts meant that this had regulary changed.
Unlike some actors on Smallville, Jane was given quite a bit
of information about her character before she started filming,
some of which wasn't revealed to the audience until a good
way into her time on the show-. "They told
me that Genevieve was Jason's mother," Jane recalls, "They
told me that she had information about the crystals. They told
me that she was involved with setting up Lana meeting her son
in Paris [in Crussade), and that she knows something about
the tattoo on Lana's back - I think that's about it."
For the audience though, initially, they don't really know
who she is or what she's up to, and indeed which side either
she or Jason are on. Are they helping Lana for altruistic reasons,
or do they have an agenda of their own.' Are she and Jason
cooperating or arc mother and son at loggerheads?"Although
the producers gave her a. certain amount of information, they
deliberately didn't paint a complete picture for Jane of Genevieve's
life stop. "I don't know what her back
story is, but in my mind, it's that she was very
manipulative," she explains.
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