Behind the Scenes with Crackle’s ‘Angel of Death’ Zoe
Bell
by Marc Hustvedt on October 21st, 2008
Tubefilter TV
21 October 2008
With Angel of Death, Zoe Bell is making her transition from
stuntwoman to full-fledged badass female action star. “Eve
is guiltless, heartless — emotionally sterile before she
suffers the trauma that changes her,” Bell tells us. “She
has to learn to co-exist with emotion” she adds, letting on
that she has worked her character backstory well beyond what
writer Ed Brubaker had written out.
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Zoe Bell and Lucy Lawless
are on set together, but despite having a rather large role
in the series, this is the only day Lawless will be
shooting. The 50-member crew, a luxury for most web series,
are moving briskly – you could almost call them relaxed.
About fifteen or so huddle around the twin monitors set up
just outside of one of the hospital suites that has been
converted into Lawless’ character Vera’s apartment. They eye
every detail — with concentration common to a TV or film
production with a respectable budget. In fact most of the
crew consider this just like any other film gig. A film gig
with an ambitious 25-day schedule, of course, but
essentially the same logistics.
Bell plays Eve, a
“remorseless assassin” working for a shadowy crime family
who finds herself haunted by her former victims after
traumatic head injury. As part of an exorcism of these
demons, she turns her deadly skills on her former clients
who ordered the hits in the first place. When we arrive on
set, Eve is bleeding, roughed up from some recent revenge
fight. The cameras roll in her neighbor Vera’s apartment as
she cares to the wounded Eve laying limply on the worn
russet couch. In
fact, this is the first time Bell and her fellow New Zealand
native Lawless have shared the screen — at the same time
that is — despite an 11-year history going back to Bell’s
days as Lawless’s stunt double on Xena: Warrior Princess.
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For more on Lucy's role on Angel of Death go to
AUSXIP Lucy Lawless Angel of Death Subsite