If there's one thing that impresses Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) about the set of CSI: Miami is its wide variety of food.

The actress talked to OK Magazine recently about the differences between craft services on soap operas and primetime TV, which are vast. "On a soap, you get bagels and cream cheese in the morning and a plate of cookies in the afternoon – that's it. On CSI it's filet mignon and lobster every day."

Fans may remember La Rue from her role on the soap opera All My Children, which she departed from last year. The actress boldly moved to Los Angeles from New York and feels lucky to have gotten her Miami role so quickly. "I feel so blessed. I was going to move out here with no job and start auditioning. I was ready to join the ranks of the gazillion single-mom unemployed actresses."

La Rue has now been on 15 episodes of the series, and even though that doesn't make it a full season, she's already gotten a grip on the technical jargon. "Initially, I had no idea what I was talking about. But I found out that one of the main reasons I got the part was that I sounded the most natural spitting out all the terms."

The actress's greatest challenge, however, was coming into a show that had already been on the air nearly four years. But La Rue admitted that fitting in was ultimately not a problem. "They were in their fourth season and the case is really tightly woven so I wasn't sure they'd accept me," she said. "Of course, they were all lovely, totally inclusive and some of the funniest people I've ever met. I went up to them on the first day and said, 'Thank you for being so nice to me.' I was like high school."

Visit La Rue's official website to read the rest of this article, in which she talks about her life at home.

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