TVGuide interviews Jodi Lyn O’Keefe and she chats about Prison Break and her previous acting career. She does give a bit of a spoiler about her relationship with Lincoln!
TVGuide.com: I was a bit nervous getting ready to talk to you, but Dominic Purcell assured me you’re not nearly as fierce as Susan B.
Jodi Lyn O’Keefe: No, I’m not at all. I’m actually a pretty big pushover.
TVGuide.com: How familiar were you with Prison Break before joining the series?
O’Keefe: I was a huge fan, so it’s pretty unnerving to be a cast member now.
TVGuide.com: Especially since this show doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to female characters and love interests.
O’Keefe: [Laughs] See, thankfully I’m not a love interest.
TVGuide.com: Yet.
O’Keefe: Yet! And Prison Break doesn’t have a really good track record for its bad guys either, so… when you look at it…. [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: Why do I get the feeling that Susan B. isn’t an entirely willing part of The Company? That maybe she herself is being compelled into servitude?
O’Keefe: I think you’re on the right track. Susan’s not as bad as everyone makes her out to be. She has some reasons for doing what she does, and we’re finding out a lot more about her. Coming up, there will be some flashbacks showing that Susan was a prisoner of war and she was raped and tortured, so she feels there isn’t a place left for her in society anymore.
TVGuide.com: Yeah, it would take something dark to send her into this line of work.
O’Keefe: That’s exactly what happened. There’s more motivating her than what we’ve seen.
TVGuide.com: Dominic reiterated his want for some action, a horizontal hookup for Linc….
O’Keefe: [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: Might Susan B. warm up a bit and fill the bill?
O’Keefe: I don’t know about that. I haven’t been told that yet. I think it may have to be someone else to give Dom some action.
TVGuide.com: I half suspected that her comment about him banging her on the bar was an invitation.
O’Keefe: Well, she sort of talks to all the boys that way. You’ll see that coming up. That’s just her style.
TVGuide.com: You seem pretty confident wielding a gun. Is that thanks to your Nash Bridges days?
O’Keefe: That’s thanks to Nash Bridges and my days on The Evidence. For some reason, everyone keeps giving me a gun!
TVGuide.com: Will Prison Break give you the opportunity to display your kickboxing skills?
O’Keefe: Oh, gosh. It’s been so many years…. But yeah, I do have some stunt work coming up and I do beat up some people.
TVGuide.com: What can you tease about the fall finale airing in mid-December?
O’Keefe: Oh, so much happens. I can’t give it away, but I will tell you that our action sequences are absolutely incredible. We have a helicopter pilot who does things with a chopper that I have never seen before in my life.
TVGuide.com: What’s one of the biggest stunts you’ve ever tackled yourself?
O’Keefe: I jumped off the roof of a police car and knocked somebody down. That was for a movie I did a million years ago. They let me do my own stunt work, so I said, “Yeah!” It went pretty well.
TVGuide.com: Are you a fan at all of the spoof Not Another Teen Movie, having starred in She’s All That?
O’Keefe: I am, I absolutely am. I make fun of myself all the time so anytime they want to spoof any movie I’ve been a part of, that’s great.
TVGuide.com: Who are you most often mistaken for?
O’Keefe: Tiffani Thiessen and Yasmine Bleeth. I get their fan mail sometimes!
TVGuide.com: You and Yasmine both have these “otherworldly” eyes….
O’Keefe: Thank you, oh my gosh! They’re blue, just like my mother’s.
TVGuide.com: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever had to do for a lad-mag photo shoot?
O’Keefe: The craziest thing for me is just showing a little bit of skin. I did a Maxim cover once and let’s just say it wasn’t my father’s favorite picture. My mother asked me if I was trying to kill him. [Laughs] I wasn’t naked but… you know, I’m the “baby” of the family.
TVGuide.com: Which of your previous TV series got the shortest shrift?
O’Keefe: That would have to be The Evidence. We jumped from Episode 3 to 8 and then we were off the air.
TVGuide.com: Do you think that in a way it was before its time?
O’Keefe: Yeah, I do. It was such an amazing cast and I got to work with Martin Landau in this lifetime, which is incredible, and Orlando Jones and Rob Estes. I thought for sure it would stick around for a little.
TVGuide.com: When’s the last time you played a nice girl?
O’Keefe: I don’t remember! [Laughs] I was good on Nash Bridges!
TVGuide.com: Yeah, but you were like 10 years old back then.
O’Keefe: Yeah, 10 or 12… or 16.
TVGuide.com: What sort of TV do you like?
O’Keefe: I really like Comedy Central. I watch The Colbert Report and Jon Stewart….
TVGuide.com: Would you vote for Colbert for president?
O’Keefe: Immediately, of course! Sign me up for campaign manager!
Source: TVGuide
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Not much talkative…
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” What can you tease about the fall finale airing in mid-December?” .. ooh, i just can’t stand reading this .. i live in the Netherlands and here they haven’t even shown “Good Fences” yet ..
… AAAHHH .. (pulling out my hair)
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I like her, she’s cool, I’m so glad she’s joined PB and given us Susan!!
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It’s obvious that the writers want to move Suzan into the grey area of characters who aren’t as bad as they seem. But no matter how tormented her past is, her character can’t recover from killing and decapitating an innoccent woman and holding a 15 year old boy hostage.
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Anna, it would also help if the actress was good but JLOK is NOT. When she says some of her lines it sounds so wooden and as if she is reading the line.
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I agree. Why did they cast her anyway?? She over acts all the time.
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I dont think she’s a bad actor. The impression I get from the character is that she’s holding in a lot of rage and trying to swallow it back while she’s talking to Lincoln. And I think they cast her because she actually looks like she could scare a man – she’s big, she looks like she can fight, and she’s also attractive enough to lure them in when she needs to.
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I dont get this double standard by the way. Kellerman, TBag and Mahone have done worse, and nobody hates them as much as they do Susan. Especially Kellerman – he killed LJ’s mum in front of him, shot his best friend Hale, and look what he did to Leticia. So… this “Susan can never be redeemed” stuff is bullsh*t. She’s done a lot less evil so far than Kellerman has, two murders and a hostage situation. Hey, she’s done less damage than even Mahone!
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I cant stand her, she seems a bit annoying
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