"From a character perspective there's a great simplicity to Lori. One of the first questions actors ask is what do I want, what propels me through the story, and with Lori it's so simple: keep my son alive. There's a really great clarity to that. Whereas with Sara from "Prison Break" there was so much going on with her, everything from protecting her sobriety to protecting her independence to navigating a relationship with a father - there were so many layers to it. With Lori, there's just one simple, clear drive, and anything that gets away from that is off the table and anything that supports it is in."
"I think it may be a long time before we get Lori's side of things. Frank has written a relationship between these characters, especially before everything goes to hell, where they just weren't working, and they were really tearing each other apart. What I thought was interesting was that Rick said to Shane in the beginning, that Lori said "sometimes I wonder if you even care about us at all" and that really tore Rick up. From my perspective, I wonder if that's something that she even meant. She could have been cooking eggs and he said something that upset her and she said under her breath. "sometimes I wonder if you even care about us at all" - maybe she didn't mean it to be a sword that would cut him in half, she just said it as an aside.
I don't think she had any idea about how much it hurt him. And that's where their marriage is, they're hurting each other without even knowing it. Part of what fascinates me is Lori's perspective on what's wrong with their marriage, how to make it better. If you've seen the pilot then you know that they have more to contend with when they find each other than they did before he was shot. And it's not like there's time to go into counseling. It's not like they have time to sit down and figure out what's going on with their marriage, they have other fish to fry."
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