FOX официально продлил свою межсезонную новинку Lie to Me на второй сезон, заказав 13 эпизодов. С нового сезона к сериалу в качестве исполнительного продюсера и шоураннера присоединится продюсер и сценарист The Shield и The Unit Шоун Райан. Он уже помогал в работе над сериалом последние несколько месяцев.

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ANY interview with Samuel Baum, the creator of Lie to Me, a psychology drama about an expert in interpreting facial expressions, was always going to be an uneasy exchange of words and movements. So we begin with a simple question - you've seen my face; do I like you?

"Well, your smile is fake," Baum informs me, a statement which gets a laugh out of me and the Fox publicist with us. "Ah, now it's real," he says, correcting himself. "There is a very tiny ocular muscle that, when it engages, produces the wrinkling around the eye you see in a true smile, but not in a fake smile. And it's incredibly difficult to contract voluntarily."

This is not going to be an easy conversation.

Lie to Me is somewhat atypical for an American procedural drama. It stars Tim Roth as DrCal Lightman, a body language expert who works as a consultant to various policing agencies. Some of the touches, such as the stark production design, are familiar hallmarks of the genre (think CSI or Spooks) but the subject matter, which replaces cops and robbers with an eccentric who gets his man by analysing the wink of an eye, is something new.

"I'm very interested in the things we feel we can't talk about, the things we end up either saying nothing about or lying about, and I've been doing a lot of writing about the lies, the cost of lies and the cost of the truth in a variety of areas, in family life and in political life," Baum says.

His research brought him to Paul Ekman, the celebrated professor of psychiatry who advanced the idea that facial expressions are not cultural in origin, but rather a universal, biological code for the six basic emotions - anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise - and their still-debated seventh sibling, contempt. Ekman was involved in the critically acclaimed 2001 BBC TV documentary series The Human Face, and now, though retired, serves as a consultant to Lie To Me.

"On one level the show is about the science of lying, and trying to see, in case work, who is lying and who is telling the truth, but at a deeper level it is about the face we put on for the world and what we really think and feel, who we truly are," says Baum.

"The mysteries that are going to be explored in the show are more psychological than criminal, this is not a show where someone is lying because they robbed the bank and don't want to get caught; this is a show where there will be a complex web of lies and a deeper psychological mystery at its heart, so it's not so much about the search for a criminal, but the search for human truth."
Plot intensive, it poses some specific challenges to Baum and his writing staff, mainly because it is plot-intensive. "We hope to tell a good mystery story or two every week, and of course, they should all centre on the science, which a lot of people seem to know a little about but want to know more about because it's applicable in everyday life."

This brings us to why I, in a weak moment during our interview, chose to rub my eye. "I would have to decide if you are rubbing it because you have an itch, or because you're lying," Baum says. My gesture, he explains, is known as a manipulator. Similar gestures would be pushing up a sleeve, touching my hair or licking my lips.

"If you look at footage of people who are known to be lying, where people have been proven to be lying, such as the famous Clinton footage, you will see a large increase in manipulators and a decrease in illustrators, which are gestures which help tell a story."

For the record, I explain to him, I had an itch, and then pose an obvious question: was he always phenomenally unpopular at dinner parties or has he just become less popular now that he has mastered the art of exposing little white lies?

"I have a long history of being an unwelcome guest," he says, laughing.

This brings us to another pertinent point. To what extent does Baum spend his day identifying people who are lying? "I'm in Hollywood, so it's a safe assumption that the average person is lying to me. But it's difficult - once you know what you're looking for, it's impossible to switch off. Extensive research into the frequency of lying suggests that the average person tells three lies in 10 minutes of conversation."

Baum says he was initially attracted to the science of micro-expressions because of its universality, "the idea that anxiety or anger or sadness would look identical on a Saudi sheik and a suburban housewife in Orange County in California, or that two incredibly different individuals, like Prince Charles and Mike Tyson, give away the same expression".

Adapting that for television was somewhat more challenging.

"If you look at the numbers in terms of the viability of getting a network television show on the air, you would probably never get out of bed and endeavour do to it in the first place."

The show, he says, still closely resembles the one he and co-writer Dustin Thomason put to paper. In addition to the DrHouse-like Cal Lightman, it features the optimistic Dr Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams), former TSA agent Ria Torres (Monica Raymund), who favours instinct over science, and the unfiltered compulsive truth-teller Eli Loker (Brendan Hines).

The tonal signature of the show, Baum says, is seeing the world through Lightman's eyes. "You get to see these incredibly miniscule details of human expression and body movement, writ large and slowed down so they betray a large amount of meaning. It was very important that was well represented in the show, because it is a language of truth which is being spoken at all times by our bodies and our faces and by our voices.

"When you know that language of the truth, you will never be lied to again."
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Вот нашел еще одно интервью с Тимом Ротом:
Interview: Tim Roth Won't Lie to Me

He may play a deception expert on Lie to Me, but in real life, Tim Roth has no idea when you're lying.

"People assume that you know what you're doing. I read the scripts and I do what's necessary for that, but people do make the assumption that you actually can read them, and that's a bit worrying really," says the veteran actor. "Except my kids very much think that I know when they haven't done their homework. That's quite useful."

It's understandable that others might find Roth intimidating: playing Dr. Cal Lightman, Roth appears to detect almost any lie or emotion from the slightest of facial expressions. Dr. Lightman and his team of fellow lie-busters can easily catch criminals, but they make everyone around them feel paranoid. The fact that people now get nervous around Roth proves that he's doing a good job - because the man Dr. Lightman is based on makes Roth himself very uncomfortable.

"The show's based on a real guy - his name is Paul Ekman and I get nervous around him," he admits. "I was fascinated by this work and that it was all based very much in real science and, you know, as an actor, I think he's kind of busting me on my acting."

It's an unexpected insecurity for the veteran actor, best known for stellar performances in films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Roth reveals that since Lie to Me is his first regular television gig, he's still unused to the differences from shooting films - the faster pace, the tighter schedule, the behind-the-scenes production struggles. The good news is that Roth will probably have a while longer to get used to the change, as it appears likely that Fox will renew the drama for a second season.

"It's an experiment; it's a big experiment for me to see if you can sustain a character over a long period of time. It's just another aspect of the acting kind of world that I'd never really been involved in before," he says. "It's a bit more work than I think I've ever really had as an actor. It's a very, very, brutal schedule. But there is something satisfying in seeing if you can make it work."

Another strange quirk about Roth: in real life, he's actually a terrible liar. So much so that he doesn't even try when asked to differentiate Lie to Me from other popular television procedurals like House and The Mentalist.

"I wouldn't know what sets us apart, really. I don't watch anything," he says. "The one thing I've come across is people have their favorite shows and they get quite carried away with them. And they seem to become 'their shows,' their quite personal kind of connection that goes on with the viewer and the characters. So, I'm hoping that there will be that and that we do stand apart. But, to be honest with you, I wouldn't know because I'm not a big TV viewer."

An answer like that makes Roth's performance on Lie to Me all the more impressive, although it's entirely possible that his candor is due to his near-complete immersion in deception all day long.

"The thing about lying which is kind of interesting is that you do it for all kinds of reasons. I don't really pay too much attention to it all, which I think is what gets me through the day," he says, sighing. "The idea of having the truth all the time would be quite exhausting, I think."
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[spoiler="Мой перевод"]Он может сыграть эксперта в области обмана в Теории Лжи, но в реальной жизни Тим Рот понятия не имеет, когда кто-то лжет.

«Люди предполагают, что я знаю, что делаю. Я читаю сценарий, и делаю то, что необходимо для съемок, но люди предполагают, что я фактически могу увидеть их эмоции, и это немного напрягает» говорит актер. "Иногда это, конечно, помогает, например, мои дети думают, что я знаю, когда они не сделали домашнюю работу. Это весьма полезно."

Понятно, что другие могли найти, Тима Рота странным: играя доктора Кэла Лайтмана, Рот, кажется, может обнаружить почти любую ложь, или эмоцию по микровыражениям лица. Доктор Лайтман и его команда экспертов по определению лжи могут легко поймать преступников, но они заставляют всех вокруг чувствовать себя неуверенно. Факт, что люди теперь становятся более нервными в присутствии Рота. Это показывает, что он делает хорошую работу - потому что персонаж доктора Лайтмана базируется на том, что для Рота кажется неприятным.

«Шоу, основано на работе реального человека - его имя Пол Экман, и я нервничаю, когда нахожусь рядом с ним,» признает Рот. - "Я был очарован его работой и тем, что все основано на реальной науке, и, вы знаете, как актер, я думаю, что он увидел мой талант.»

Сериал – неожиданность для опытного актера, известного по знаменитым ролям в фильмах таких, как «Бешеные Псы» и «Криминальное Чтиво». Рот рассказал, что «Теория Лжи» - это его первый телевизионный сериал, он все еще не привык к различиям между боевиком и сериалом - чем быстрее темп, тем более напряженный график, негласная борьба на производстве. Хорошие новости - это то, что Рот будет иметь больше времени, чтобы привыкнуть к изменениям, поскольку FOX продолжит показ сериала во втором сезоне.

«Это – эксперимент, это - очень большой эксперимент для меня, увидеть, могу ли я играть этого персонажа длительный период времени. Это другой взгляд на мир, который я никогда бы не использовал прежде,» говорит Рот. «Это - немного больше работы, чем, у меня, как у актера было когда-либо до этого. Это – просто-таки зверский график. Но есть и кое-что , что доставляет мне удовольствие – это то, что я могу сделать это.»

Странный факт о Тиме Роте : в реальной жизни, он - ужасный лгун. Он даже не пытается провести различия между, «Теорией Лжи» относительно других знаменитых сериалов , таких как «Доктор Хаус» и «Менталистом».

"Я не знаю ,что делает, нас особенными, честно. Я не смотрю другие передачи, "говорит Тим. "Одна вещь, с которой я столкнулся – это люди, у которых есть свои любимые телешоу, и они весьма увлечены ими. И это становиться, чем-то весьма личным для них, связью которая соединяет зрителя и актера. Я надеюсь, что так будет и с нами, что мы действительно стоим обособленно. Но, чтобы быть честным с вами, я не знаю, потому что я - не часто смотрю телевизор "

Ответ подобный этому делает работу Рота в «Теории Лжи» более внушительной, хотя вполне возможно, что его искренность происходит из-за его полного погружения в образ.

"Мысль о лжи, которая интересует многих по разным причинам. Я действительно не уделяю этому много внимания в течение дня, " говорит он, вздыхая. "Я думаю, что знать правду постоянно - весьма утомительно "[/spoiler]

Всё изменилось однажды, мой взгляд стал иным,
И всё, что было важно, вдруг стало пустым.

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