Taylor Spreitler plays Lennox Scanlon on ABC Family’s “Melissa & Joey”. She stars along side Melissa Joan Hart and Joseph Lawrence. The show just finished this its first season and is already in production for its second season. Media Mikes had a chance to chance with Taylor about her role and the finale.
Mike Gencarelli: So what do you like best about working with Melissa Joan Hart and Joseph Lawrence on “Melissa & Joey”?
Taylor Spreitler: It’s very cool to work with people who know what it’s like to work in this industry at my age. Melissa was staring in her own series when she was my age so it’s very cool to have people there to help me out and understand what I’ve been through and they are very supportive. It’s very great to have both of them there.
MG: Give us a little background on your character; what do you like most about playing “Lennox” on your show?
TS: There’s not really anything I don’t like about her. She’s a really fun character to play because with the situations that she gets herself into there’s never really a dull moment with her. It’s always fun to play that out. She has cool style as well.
MG: When you first started, what did you like best about the character. Was there anything in particular you did to prepare for the playing her?
TS: Well when I read the breakdown of Lennox everybody who had already read it was calling me, including my manager, and telling me that is was basically me. There wasn’t really anything I had to do, it was kind of like playing myself just a more dramatic version. I think the thing to adjust to was just getting close to everyone and figuring out the whole family dynamic of the four of us.
MG: What has been your favorite episode so far in shooting season 1?
TS: There has been a few but the episode with Andy Lawrence where Melissa takes me in to the club, that was a lot of fun. I had just graduated right after we were done filming that episode and they threw a surprise graduation on set. That was really cool for me. Any episode this season, part of it was filmed in Maui, where I go to prom and it’s formal. I didn’t go to High School so I didn’t get to experience that so it was nice to dress up and have a date and all that stuff.
MG: How do you feel working on this show is different or similar to working on “Days of Our Lives”?
TS: They’re both completely different. My schedule now is a lot better. “Days of Our Lives” was a great thing for me to do, it was really good training and a lot of fun; I was really close to everyone there and it was hard leaving. But you know it’s such a big cast and you can get lost in the shuffle. So it’s definitely nice to be in a smaller cast. We are more like a family here. We only do one script a week, so that’s nice, and not like learning 60 pages at once. That’s definitely a lot easier.
MG: When do you expect to start working on Season 2?
TS: We actually have already been filming it. We are filming the 3rd Episode on Season 2 this week.
MG: How does it work when you get a script for a show? How far in advance do you have to prepare for each episode?
TS: Usually we get our scripts the Friday before we start on the next episode, after we finish the taping of whatever we are done with that week, so we have a weekend to look over it and that Monday we do our paper read and start our week of figuring everything out.