Hi there,

is it true Brooke Langton is in the cast in "Life"?
If so, how big part is her. Anyone knows?
If not I guess we have to wait until its aired..

Thanks anyway,
www.brookelangton.us

Yes, Brooke Langton has been cast as Constance Griffiths, the attorney who helps clear Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) of the wrongful charges and helps get him released from prison, obtain his settlement, get his detective position on the police force, etc. To my knowledge, the two characers maintain a friendship (or perhaps more than a friendship?) as the series progresses.

In the pilot episode, the role is played by Melissa Sagemiller. I don't know if the premiere episode will still have Melissa in the "Constance" scenes, or if perhaps those scenes have been re-filmed with Brooke. I guess that will be answered in 6 weeks or so. :-)

Welcome to the boards, creasy and lifer! Thanks for the info.

welcome to the board......

I watched the pilot last night ON Demand and Brooke was in it. They refilmed all the parts. Most shows would not show the orginial pilot if they change castmembers.

They would reshoot the whole thing..or just those parts. From watching it, it would have been real easy for them to just reshoot those parts.

It took me a few minutes but I finally placed that I knew her from the Movie "The Replacements" with Keanu Reeves. She was great in that movie.

He hadn't seen her a long time. Then he turned on the
TV. There she was. As if arranged. She was as
beautiful as ever. More. There were metaphors forming
in his mouth. Some suggested effervescence,
luminosity, silken sensuality. Then she was gone. The
director or somebody changed scenes. They say we
direct the movies of our lives. But not always.
Sometimes we are the audience. Sometimes we are on the
other side looking in. That's life.

I've been a fan of Brooke Langton since I saw her in 'The Replacements'.
She is really a good actress.
I've seen her in guest spots on 'Monk' and 'Weeds', and it's always a pleasure.

There seems to be a little sparkage going on between the characters of Constance and Charlie.
I think we are supposed to get that they've been through a lot together.
Was Constance Charlie's lawyer during his trial, I wonder?
There seemed to be a small reference to that, but I'm not sure.

Yes, it appears that way. Which makes one wonder when the "been through a lot together" could have taken place. Can't be while he was in jail. Hasn't been out more than 4 months. Maybe a first love? Or a nerdy girl from his early school days who has, um, grown up?

Charlie and Constance didn't meet when he got out of jail 4 months ago; it must have been a long and hard struggle to get his case reopened, have the sentence revoked, and negotiate the terms of his settlement.

Spoiler warning! If you check out the character bio for Charlie on the NBC site for LIFE it includes more details about his time in jail, his relationship with Ted and Constance, etc.

http://www.nbc.com/Life/about/bios/charlie_crews.shtml

Tonight in Episode two we learned that she took over Charlie's case after he had been in prison 8 years.

I want to applaud Ms. Langton for being the only actress of my age group ( that I can tell, anyway) that has not succumbed to BOTOX! It's nice to see a few character lines on her face... it's creepy that no one has them anymore.

Go Brooke!

Brooke is a great actress and I'm sure that NBC saw that when she was on Friday Night Lights, she was pretty wicked.

JadedRogue

Has it been said how the lawyer came to take up charlie as a client. Wonder if it has anything to do with rachel knowing he didn't kill her family?

Wow, Constance is a piece of work. She tells Charlie she won't have an affair with him, and she's not leaving her husband, but who does she call when she gets beat up? Hmmm, not her husband. She is playing with Charlie's feelings - hasn't that man been through enough????

I hope she stays in NY.

What's Life?

A magazine.

How much does it cost?

Fifty cents.

But I only have a quarter.

That's Life.



Ahem... I have a feeling Constance will be back in town again. Hopefully Ms Langton hasn't landed a more lucrative gig elsewhere.

I really hope she is not going to NY. I love their chemistry and i get such a joy watching them every week.

I think she and he are so original together and I wish the writers would get them a little hot and heavy.

Please, please, tell me she will be back.

Wow I found the only other people who like Charlie and Constance together. I think more of that will be possible now that she is not his lawyer.

In the 'Serious Control Issues' did you see they were on a park bench in the middle of the day just sitting, talking and having a Popsicle. Also she asked him if he would take advise from a friend.

Very, very little sparkage in the romance department if you ask me. The chemistry between Constance and Crews just isn't there. I am not saying I want to see him romance Dani, at least not for awhile, but they have much more sparkage.

I have to say, I must agree with you. Very little chemistry, could it be because the character was absent for several episode. I said this in another topic but could it be because Constance only exists to provide "romantic tension" while Dani actually moves the mystery and conspiracy plots forward and would still be interesting even if they never make she and Charlie a romantic couple?

Exactly ... I haven't former an opinion on her yet, but I don't trust her ...

Have you read the character bio for Charlie Crews on this site? Charlie owes everything to Constance:

http://www.nbc.com/Life/about/bios/charlie_crews.shtml

Little chemistry? That's weird... because I found the chemistry between Constance and Charlie to be very strong. I love it whenever they're in the scene together, Charlie is like a different person when he's with Constance and I like it. Constance's character development hasn't been my favorite so far, but I'm still looking forward for their relationship.

I had an opportunity to see the original pilot episode which was never broadcast (which had a different actress playing Constance) and the chemistry and attraction between Charlie and the current Constance is so much stronger than in the original, the difference is really amazing.

It's good they changed the actress then. Who is the original actress?

"Who is the original actress?"


actually, there were two casting changes from the pilot. claudia black was originally cast as charlie's wife but got pregnant and was let out of her contract. there has been some stories about her being re-cast as a different character in the future, which is fine by me. loved her in 'stargate sg1' and 'farscape'. melissa sagemiller was the original constance. go to the 'life' page on imbd and play the photo slideshow, sagemiller is still featured, as is brooke. kind of strange.

Congical visits .... LOL

Sorry couldn't resist

I have to say I agree with you. It's not that I don't like the Constance character it's that as you said she only exists to be a love interest. All of her scenes with Crews consist of either Constance warning Charlie not to violate a regulation or investigate the conspiracy. And then reminding Charlie she is married. Constance is the one character who has no life outside of Charlie. Yes, she has a husband but he is only referenced in passing. I guess I mean she is too perfect, flawless. Ted is a former high flying wall street type, Dani has addiction issues and a bad relationship with her father. Constance has none of that. And I will never understand why they sent her to New York for several episodes. You're right Dani actually moves the plot forward in addition to being interesting.It would make more sense for Charlie and Dani to become a romantic couple at some point they have better chemistry, yes there is friction and they argue but that makes it really interesting. Watching their relationship develop is more compelling than the Charlie/Constance relationship. The writers are playing it very smart they have planted the seeds so that down the road it could turn romantic or they could become very good friends.

Honestly, and I might be a minority here (No offense to Constance lovers! ), I don't like the character of Constance at all. I find her pretty boring, and sort of one of those annoying, cutesy, prissy female characters... ones who are basically just there to be sexy for the lead male and whose character personalities are not particularly developed... if that makes any sense at all.

I find Dani's character much more dynamic and enjoyable! The combination of her complex personality and Crews' makes for great "sparky" chemistry between them.

Constance/Crews just kind of falls flat for me. And I agree with Amber above... Constance's character seems only there as the "love interest" and therefore falls flat when compared with Dani Reese, whose character is developed for a deeper role.

Then again, I kind of like Sarah Shahi's personality on the show better too.

Anyone else feel the same?

What is up with Constance last week. She denied hearing Hollister implicating Reese in the murder of Rachel's family. We heard it, and we know she heard it. So, who is pulling her string in the DA's office?

I might have to watch the last episode again to be sure but I think that he only confesed to killing the family and never said anything about Reese. I could be wrong tho.

She definitely heard it. Even if she is lying to protect Charlie it seems like an awful betrayal of trust.

No, they got to her.

Yea what gives?! She drops the bombshell on Crews that she never heard anything and then they don't explore it more in this episode. Someone must have gotten to her which will serve to place Crews in a future situation where he will have to act to protect her from all the players in the conspiracy, possibly Jack. They must really have the goods on Constance for her to play along because there is NO DOUBT she is hopelessly in love with Crews and for her to deny to Crews what she heard on the phone is a huge betrayal on her part. The tentacles of the Conspiracy keep expanding, no one is safe or trustworthy in Crew's world.

There is two possible plot lines with regards to Constance.

A. Because she is in the D.A.'s office, she is aware of more info on the conspiracy that could bring it down, but given Charlie's nature and not being able to let things go, she can't let on for fear that he will blow open a pending case or :

B. She was in on the original conspiracy. She was hired to the group who setup Crews to get him out of prison. He was used to deflect suspicion from the group and they figured 7 years later (unless I am mistaken it took Connie 5 years to get him out) the case would be cold enough that no one would really be looking for the real killer. The assumption being most people happy to be out of jail with $50 million and would be spending it on an island somewhere, not hunting them down. That's probably a stretch though...

Did Hollis mention Jack Reese at all? I know he said he killed the family, but I don't remember him mentioning Jack Reese. If he had then why didn't they arrest Jack Reese along with Hollis in the last episode of season 1?

I maybe wrong but watching the episode yesterday while Crews was digging a hole, Hollis mentioned that he worked as an informant to J. Reese. He confessed having killed the family, but not involving Reese in this crime.

This is the exact quote from Kyle Hollis.
"O.K I was Jack Reese's confidential informant, worked for him too. I would get calls to pick up envelopes, drop off envelopes from that bar, from your bar. Those envelopes were filled with cash. Your friend Seybolt was laundering money for jack and his friends. O.K!. Then one night I got the call, go straighten tom out. He was skimming. I went there, it got out of hand, wife was there, she was screaming, the kid. I was jacked up. I killed that family. But I didnt set you up.
What are you doing! Some of the bank money they took it got washed through that bar I got no papers. i got no documents. That's all I know. I got right. The fire found me. I killed that family, but I didn't set you up. I didn't."

He said this to Cruise and Connie heard every word over the phone. I felt I should clear this up. Connie is up to something as she did hear this.

Now, Hollis confessed this to Cruise (and Connie through the phone) but his official confession when in police custody was just for the murder not mentioning Jack Reese(Charlie thought Hollis would roll over on Reese). As the conversation was not taped they have no proof. This is why Jack Reese was not arrested.

Good post. Thx for clearing that up.