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The second season of “Royal Pains” premiered on USA last night. Anastasia won’t be in the show until episode four (24 June) entitled “Medusa”. Here is a little description of the episode:
Boris flies Hank to another country, where he and another doctor research potentially life saving gene therapies. Back in the Hamptons, Hank’s temporary replacement, Dr. Emily Peck (Anastasia), rubs Divya the wrong way.
The Royal Pains cast has been doing lots of press recently to promote the new season and Anastasia came up in some of the interviews so here is what her co-stars had to say about Anastasia.
Reshma Shetty talking to haveuheard.net
The producers mentioned how Anastasia Griffith had dropped her accent because you got yours. Can you do American?
Reshma: So, I didn’t know she was British. I saw her in Damages and I loved her in Damages. And when she starts her talking—I remember my first thought was, “Is she making fun of me? Like what’s going on?”
And then suddenly she was like, “I’m a British actress.”
I had no idea. And she goes to a coach and she does an incredible job. But there are moments that she’ll go out and as we all do, when you got to say ‘schedule’ and ‘water’ and ‘can’t’, it’s really—like the worst for me is ‘can’. It’s really difficult to say that in a sentence.
Mark Feuerstein talking to haveuheard.net
I was a fan of hers on Damages. I love that show, and she was wonderful on that show, so I was thrilled when I found out she was going to play Emily Peck. And so far, I mean, I only know as much as I’ve shot, and there have been two aspects to her character. She’s a roadblock sort of on all fronts. She’s a roadblock both career wise because she is a doctor, and she presents a certain threat to Hank in the Hamptons. She becomes a potential competitor in the concierge medicine industry, so she’s my competition and then she’s also going to be maybe Jill’s competition, because there’s a little bit of something going on. Right now, it’s just innuendo, but we’ll see what happens in the next episode. I haven’t gotten a copy of it yet, so I know as much as you do about where it’s going to go. But she’s definitely a roadblock on many fronts.
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