{"id":3062,"date":"2017-08-01T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/08\/01\/exclusive-paula-patton-reveals-how-motherhood-shaped-her-performance-on-abcs-somewhere-between\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:04:18","slug":"exclusive-paula-patton-reveals-how-motherhood-shaped-her-performance-on-abcs-somewhere-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/08\/01\/exclusive-paula-patton-reveals-how-motherhood-shaped-her-performance-on-abcs-somewhere-between\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Paula Patton Reveals How Motherhood Shaped Her Performance on ABC’s ‘Somewhere Between’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philiana Ng \/ ET Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Paula Patton<\/strong>\u00a0is embracing the small screen.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Somewhere Between,<\/em>\u00a0Patton plays Laura Price, a local San Francisco TV news producer who is married to the California district attorney and mother to a young daughter, Serena, whose unexpected death turns Laura\u2019s world upside down. In a twist of fate, Laura is presented with the chance days later to prevent her daughter\u2019s murder a la\u00a0Groundhog Day<\/em>, teaming up with former cop-turned-private investigator, Nico (Devon Sawa<\/strong>), to find answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky on this one. The script came to me and they said that they would like for me to play the role [of Laura] if I was interested. It moved my spirit and my soul and for me, these shows — or any kind of project — I really want to shoot something that I\u2019d want to watch as well,\u201d Patton tells ET exclusively. \u201cIt\u2019s a role that will stretch you or challenge you or make me scared or excite me. It was one of those things where the project came across my desk and I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The one-hour suspense drama marks Patton\u2019s first true foray into series television, though she\u2019s previously starred in TV pilots and done guest spots on\u00a0Law & Order: SVU\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Single Ladies.<\/em>\u00a0The series\u2019 unique tone — and premise — immediately drew her in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it\u2019s a mixture of genres and it doesn\u2019t necessarily follow all the rules, in that way, it\u2019s unconventional,\u201d Patton says, adding that under the guise of the murder mystery is a \u201cdeep, heartfelt drama\u201d that she felt \u201cwas unique.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t know where it was going and I found the concept to be intriguing. We\u2019re always doing things we\u2019ve seen before and trying new ways to tell [those stories] in a different way or a different note, but it definitely felt different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patton noted that her character changes drastically from the start of the season to the end of the 10-episode run.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody else\u2019s life would you give yourself more for than your child, so that put it in an extreme, heightened level. For Laura, she\u2019s given up on life in the beginning and it\u2019s a weird trip of a fatal miracle, so to speak, that she gets to come back eight days later to change what had happened,\u201d the 41-year-old actress says. \u201cWhat was exciting about it was: Who is somebody when they\u2019re in these situations, when their back is against the wall? What are the secrets she\u2019s kept from herself and from others? Who she is in the beginning is not who she is at the end of the show — and she\u2019s quite a beast at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patton is mother to her 7-year-old son,\u00a0Julian<\/strong>, with ex-husband\u00a0Robin Thicke,<\/strong>\u00a0and she drew on personal experiences to fill in the blank spaces of her character\u2019s tragic dilemma.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the mama bear kind of thing. It\u2019s the thing where if your kid is stuck under a car, you might find the strength to lift that car up because of the adrenaline. I think you start there and the rest is fiction,\u201d she explains. \u201cIn life, you\u2019re always drawing from personal experiences and the way you see something and the way you feel. That\u2019s natural. Of course, if being a mother helps you understand something at that level, then that\u2019s helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Somewhere Between<\/em>\u00a0being Patton\u2019s first major television role, the\u00a0Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol\u00a0<\/em>star confessed she didn\u2019t see this project serving as a marker for a new chapter in her professional career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really think of things in chapters like that. Yes, this is a new page, but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s where I\u2019m at,\u201d Patton admits. \u201cI want to cultivate more material, work with great artists in movies and television shows — whatever artistic projects and endeavors move you in your heart and your soul and mind, and inspire me and potentially others, to look through that lens and see what comes. But I also need it to be fun, because life is too short.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for whether Patton is looking to do more on TV, she\u2019s hopeful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to! It was so hard to say goodbye,\u201d she shares. \u201cI was like, \u2018Can we do more?\u2019 I keep in touch but it\u2019s not quite the same as getting to play every day. It was a real joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somewhere Between<\/em>\u00a0airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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