{"id":7329,"date":"2009-09-09T21:59:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:46:08","slug":"vassey-hopes-to-leave-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2009\/09\/vassey-hopes-to-leave-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassey Hopes To Leave The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/em>&#8216;s <span style=\"color: yellow;\">Liz Vassey<\/span> would like to see Wendy Simms take a break from the lab and spend more time in the field during the upcoming tenth season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Vassey admitted that she isn&#8217;t sure what&#8217;s coming up for her character, but she hopes fieldwork is involved. Last season, Wendy left the lab with new leading man <span style=\"color: yellow;\">Laurence Fishburne<\/span> (Dr Ray Langston) in <a class=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season9\/kill_me_if_you_can.shtml\">&#8220;Kill Me If You Can&#8221;<\/a>. &#8220;I had a great time being able to shoot in the sunshine, as opposed to the darkness of the lab,&#8221; the actress told <a class=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afterellen.com\/\">After Ellen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Vassey may get her wish to spend more time outside of the crime lab. She and costar <span style=\"color: yellow;\">Wallace Langham<\/span> (David Hodges) recently went to Las Vegas to do a ride-along and speak with real CSIs. &#8220;I get the feeling things are moving in that direction,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Vassey is glad to have <span style=\"color: yellow;\">Jorja Fox<\/span> (Sara Sidle) back on <em>CSI<\/em> for several episodes this season, but she is disappointed that she hasn&#8217;t been able to film with the other actress yet. &#8220;We really like working together,&#8221; Vassey said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s nice when the women get to do stuff &#8217;cause we&#8217;re outnumbered by the men on the show. We all genuinely like each other. But the law of averages says you&#8217;re probably going to be working with the guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The number of women on the show is down by one now that <span style=\"color: yellow;\">Lauren Lee Smith<\/span> (Riley Adams) has been cut from the cast. Riley joined the team during season nine, but as CSI Files previously <a class=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/news\/280709_01.shtml\">reported<\/a>, she won&#8217;t be back for season ten. &#8220;That had absolutely nothing to do with her talent, because she&#8217;s a very talented,&#8221; Vassey said of the decision to get rid of Smith&#8217;s character. &#8220;It was unfortunate \u2014 she was brought in at the same time as Laurence Fishburne. And [we] were in the midst of this perfect storm of cast upsets: three people leaving and Laurence coming in. I think she&#8217;ll land on something in about five seconds, if she hasn&#8217;t already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original interview can be read in its entirety at <a class=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afterellen.com\/people\/2009\/9\/liz-vassey\">After Ellen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8216;s Liz Vassey would like to see Wendy Simms take a break&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2932,2933,2923],"class_list":["post-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-fox","tag-smith","tag-vassey"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}