Leah Pipes of ‘The Deep End’ not as intense in real life
Five twentysomething first-year lawyers try to keep up in the shark-infested waters of one of Los Angeles’ top law firms in “The Deep End,” premiering Thursday on ABC.
Leah Pipes plays Beth Bancroft, one of the first-year associates.
“It’s a legal dramedy,” Pipes said while in Los Angeles last fall promoting the horror film “Sorority Row.” “It’s kind of (like) ‘Ally McBeal,’ very quirky.”
The show was created by former “How I Met Your Mother” co-executive producer David Hemingson and features Clancy Brown and Billy Zane as partners in the law firm.
“Billy Zane, he plays the mean partner, and then the nice partner is played by Clancy Brown,” Pipes said.
While she’s a rich girl in “The Deep End” and played an ice queen sorority sister in “Sorority Row,” Pipes said she is less intense personally.
“I wear sweat pants; I look terrible all the time. I’m so vulnerable,” she said. “If I’m around a boy I have a crush on, I can’t even talk most of the time.”
Pipes, 21, said she hasn’t made a long-term plan for her career; she just wants to play roles that challenge her.
“I never really sat down and decided and now this is what I’m going to do. I just do it,” she said. “Whatever comes my way, I appreciate and do my best at, and if it were to fade someday, I guess I would find something else. But I just don’t plan the future, I guess.”
Still, signing on for “The Deep End” requires signing what’s potentially a seven-year contract.
“You sign a seven-year contract, but it could be a week,” she said. “It could be one episode, it could be seven years. See, this is why I don’t plan.”
As far as what she prefers to watch herself, Pipes enjoys epics.
“I love really epic films. I really like ‘The Princess Bride.’ ‘Lord of the Rings.’ I really like ‘Star Wars.’ I love ‘Harry Potter,’ I’m obsessed with ‘Harry Potter.’”
Being a “Star Wars” fanatic paid off for Pipes, who worked with Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, in “Sorority Row,” which comes to DVD on Feb. 23.
“It was really cool, since my name is Leah, and everyone calls me Leia, since I was young,” Pipes said. “I actually worked with her sister (Joely Fisher) on a pilot years ago, and I never thought I would ever work with her!”
- By Matthew Price
From Tuesday’s The Oklahoman
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