Lauren Blake

[crow_watcher]

Lauren looks spectacular in that video. Probably the best I've seen her so far on video.

 

[honeyisle]

She looks great in the vid - loving the red lipstick. And I don't mind the song tbh...although it doesn't seem like she needs the other girls much lol.

The other who?

 

[scriptgirl]

freepeople for you

from the liverpool echo
I’m totally FLYING
JUN 6 2007 BY DAWN COLLINSON, LIVERPOOL ECHO
Dawn Collinson meets the girl band singer who’s got
her big break in Hollywood
WHEN an actress gets a phone callfrom the Wachowski
brothers, it’s like picking the Lottery dream number.
After all, the men behind the Matrix and its sequels
are two of the most powerful names in Hollywood.
So it’s no surprise that Lauren Blake, on the
receiving end of that call, can’t quite believe her
luck.
The 23-year-old from Halewood is a familiar face to C4
viewers as a band member from the series Totally
Frank.
But to two of Tinseltown’s top movie men?
“I know,” smiles Lauren. “For them to choose me is
amazing. They’re so huge in the industry, so well
thought of, that it’s a massive step for me and I
haven’t stopped smiling since it happened.”
In fact it was appearing in two series of the C4 show,
as lead singer Tasha, which propelled her towards a
big screen break.
“My agency in London is IMC, the biggest in the
country, so they get all the top castings,” explains
Lauren. “The Wachowski brothers had seen me and
approached them to ask me to go in and read for a part
in their new film.
“I did and they didn’t think I was right for the part
they had in mind, but they liked what I’d done so they
wanted to offer me another part anyway.”
And so, in two weeks time, Lauren will be packing her
bags and heading from Liverpool to Berlin. There
she’ll spend weeks on location as, bizarrely, “a foxy
sci-fi air hostess”.
She will appear alongside big names including Susan
Sarandon, John Goodman, Christina Ricci, and Lost’s
Matthew Fox.
“The film is based on the old Japanese Manga
cartoons,” she explains. “There was one called
Speedracer about cars and the Wachowski brothers are
doing a re-make of that, with live action rather than
animation.
“I’m still waiting for all the details to come
through, but what I do know is that I’m an airhostess
on one of the speedracer planes.
“I don’t know who I’ll be serving but I’m hoping to
meet Christina Ricci because I love her work, and just
being on set with Susan Sarandon would be great.”
Landing the movie is, for Lauren, her first big role
since Totally Frank ended in June last year.
Before that, she’d been in Liverpool girl band Genie
Queen, with model and super WAG Abbey Clancy and Anna
Ord.
They were tipped for stardom, and backed by OMD’s Andy
McCluskey, but never quite managed to make an impact
on the charts.
Totally Frank opened up a whole new career path for
her, combining her first love of singing with a
new-found talent for acting. She and her three TV
bandmates even got to make an album for the show in
Los Angeles, working with the man behind Sugababes and
Girls Aloud.
“Before the series I’d really only acted at school, at
Halewood comp, never professionally,” she says. “So I
was very much learning on the job. I enrolled for
one-to-one lessons at the Anna Scher theatre in
London, and I went along to classes and the people
there just blew me away. I learnt so much.
“Totally Frank was an unbelievable opportunity for me
and the amount of people who recognise me still, even
though it’s a year since it was on TV, is incredible.”
Although she began as a singer, Lauren – a Face of the
ECHO model winner when she was just 14 – says she’s
now concentrating on acting.
“I love to sing, and I always will love that side of
performing, but acting is really different because you
get to put on a character,” she says. “You can really
try out all the aspects of another person, become them
and think for them.”
With her agent based in London, Lauren is dividing her
time between there and her home in Liverpool.
It means an on-going commute but, she says, that’s
fine because Liverpool is where her family are and
where her boyfriend of five years is.
“He’s not in entertainment, he’s got his own business,
which is far better,” she smiles. “A lot of people
I’ve spoken to say that going out with another actor
or singer is a recipe for disaster because it’s so
hard to get your schedules together and you can go for
weeks or months without seeing each other. I like to
know I’ve got someone to come home to.
“He doesn’t like the spotlight, though, he leaves all
that to me. There won’t be any red carpets or glossy
magazine spreads for him, although if I ever get to
the Oscars, he’ll probably turn up then. He may be
saving it for the big one!”

 

[crow_watcher]

^She's a breath of fresh air. 100 times over!

 

[scriptgirl]

REX

 

[crow_watcher]

^Lauren's expression in the second pic throws me off a bit. But she's a cutie in the other pics

 

[scriptgirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-wKNbvHWjA
youtube

 

[crow_watcher]

^At first I couldn't tell which one is Lauren. But from what I can see there's no need for her to be joined up with other women.

 

[scriptgirl]

freepeopleforyou

 

[crow_watcher]

Oh wow! Lauren appears to be a swan transforming into a beautiful woman.

 

[scriptgirl]

rex

 

[crow_watcher]

The way she raised her hand I'm surprised an accident didn't occur. But she sure lookin' fine...

 

[scriptgirl]

msyapce

 

[crow_watcher]

Wow I loooove those B & W's! The 6th pic (in color) is such a throwback, and so beautiful.

 

[scriptgirl]

retna

 

[crow_watcher]

She's eating one of my favorite foods, Dim Sum!

 

[scriptgirl]

msyapce

 

[crow_watcher]

^Ok, thats interesting. The mask works for sure.

 

[scriptgirl]

freepeopleforyou

 

[crow_watcher]

^Very nice...