laura cayouette
filmography
> 2008 Pulse Afterlife and Invasion and Pulse 3
"We filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a warehouse with two other movies. It was like movie camp.‘
"I remember Quentin Tarantino saying to Larry Bishop after we’d watched one of Larry’s old biker movies, ‘Savage Seven,’ that it was Larry’s destiny to write, direct and star in, ‘The greatest biker movie of all time.’
> 2007 Flight of the Living Dead
"I’d worked with the director, Scott Thomas, on the award-winning ‘Anacardium,’ now available as ‘Deranged.’"
"I look forward to finally playing a part where I get to do all the fun movie-magic stuff. I’ll be wearing prosthetics and squibs and get to eat people and get shot, all that good zombie movie fun."
> 2005 Daltry Calhoun
"Katrina Bronson heard about me through Quentin and auditioned me originally for a different part. I was so happy to hear when she decided to cast me as Wanda Banks. I love that character. It also gave me a chance to work with James Parks again from ‘Kill Bill,’ and with Juliette Lewis, who I’d worked with in ‘Evening Star’ when I was just starting out. Tennessee was fun, lots of truly great people there."
"Rocket was actually the fourth part I was considered for. By the time I worked, the film had already been shooting for about half a year. I just kept thinking that I’d have hung in there to play any part in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ and I saw ‘Kill Bill’ as an epic female warrior movie that could be as lasting and well crafted as that one."
> 2003 Intermission
"Writer, Director, Producer. Starring Joanna Cassidy, Julie Brown, and Danica McKellar. Official selection of 12 film festivals, winner at The MethodFest and Key West Indie Fest."
> 2000 Pretender
"It was a dream part. I got to be maternal, sexy, smart, weepy, strong and Michael T. Weis was incredibly supportive."
> 1999 For Love of the Game
"I would work with Sam Raimi for the rest of my life. Massaging Kevin? Let's just say I never had to ask what my motivation was. It was a tough job but I muddled through."
> 1999 Nash Bridges
"Because of my background in theatre, I'm really used to respecting the script. They added an improv where I'm on the phone while Jeff Perry gets us a room. We did it a few times before the director finally said "You know you can say ‘Hi’ if you want." Whoops!"
"Tony Scott has an amazing eye. He notices every detail in a performance and always knew just what to say to me as an actor. I’m from the D.C. area so it was great to be filming in my old stomping grounds with my family visiting the set."
> 1998 Diagnosis Murder
"Dick Van Dyke, a living legend, what more can I say?"
> 1998 Fantasy Island
"We were shooting on a cliff on the "From Here to Eternity" beach and Lauren 
Holly and Brian MacNamara were facing me as I faced the water and every third take, the entire ocean would rise up and smack me in the face. I felt a little better after Lauren had to climb up a cliff in a bikini and platform shoes."
> 1998 Baby Luv
"It reunited me with several people from the Open Fist Theatre Company. It has since been re-released as ‘Babies For Sale.’ I think it tackles some rather difficult topics well."
> 1997 Love Life
"We had the hardest time securing the location because the house belonged to a very religious family. They ended up sitting on the patio while I ran around their recreation room in my underwear."
"Just like Suzanne Sommers and Richard Dreyfuss in American Graffiti. I didn't meet Peter Krause until the premiere."
> 1997 Friends
"It was my first studio audience and just before my first scene, I could hear a few people yelling my last name. Then more and more until everyone was chanting CA YOU ETTE, CA YOU ETTE. David Schwimmer looked at me questioning and I whispered, "That's my name." Maybe he thought I was very popular but it was just the warm-up guy trying to pronounce my name until it became a game."
> 1997 Meeting Daddy
"They shot the whole film and watched it and realized they didn't like Josh (Charles) not getting the girl in the end. So Todd Hoffman, who I'd worked with in "Love Life", called and asked if I'd come and be his happy ending girl again."
> 1997 Krippendorf's Tribe
"It was great working with both Todd Holland, (Director, Larry Sanders) and Richard Dreyfuss again."
"On my day off, the trainers let me swim with the dolphins and ride the fin. It was a childhood dream come true."
> 1996 Larry Sanders
"It was so great watching David Duchovny and Gary Shandling improv that scene. David was so willing to lampoon his sex symbol image."
"That episode has since gone on to be named #56 in TV Guide’s 100 Best Episodes in Television and #60 on TVLand’s 100 Most Unexpected Moments in Television as well as #39 as chosen by the staff of TV Guide and Nick at Night"
> 1995 Evening Star
"I looked around and realized, all at once, that I was surrounded by five Oscar winners and nominees." [Jack Nicholson, Shirley Maclaine, Ben Johnson, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Lewis]
"I learned more in one day of working with Shirley MacClaine than in years of acting class"
