[[CLIP SHOWN]] From 'The Gray Lady'? Declan (startling Miranda): What ya doing? (bites sandwich) Miranda: Don't do that. Declan (speaking through full mouth): Got the willys already? Miranda: I heard something. Declan: What'd ya hear? Miranda: I don't know, it was like a thump. Declan: Oh … footsteps? (takes another bite of sandwich) Miranda: No. It was like a thump ... ing sound. (Declan and Miranda furtively look around)

VIVIANA: Since winning the role of Miranda she has won acclaim and even a fan club. But the job wasn't offered to her blindly.

ALISEN: Well, I auditioned, my agent called me and faxed me the sides and I worked on the audition and I went in and auditioned for the casting director and a video camera and then I was called back for the producers and then I was called back, again, for the same producers and then about a week later I learned I had the part. So, it was about a month long process.

VIVIANA: Down has some solid acting credentials as well as playing Miranda she has won a Gemini Award for a part in the Vancouver filmed police series `Cold Squad.' She studied acting at the prestigious Academies in California and Oxford England. But she still auditions.

[[CLIP SHOWN]] Very cute Out-take? Adrian Pasdar scaring Rae Dawn Chong by opening a door and saying 'Boo' (I think) during the filming of `The Gray Lady.'

ALISEN: I do still have to audition for parts. Especially if the director or company doesn't know me, doesn't know what I've done or my work. Which is fine. I think as an actor the auditioning process never ends and that is part of it. You want to be an actor; you learn to audition. Um, but I think my training and … my training, I think it does open doors … sometimes … depending on the company and the director, if they look at that, and they say `Oh, okay, well she's been trained, let's bring her in, lets see what she can do.'

ALISEN: I will go … where my work takes me. If my work takes me to Los Angeles, I *will* go with bells on. If my work takes me to England, I *will* go with bells on. I'll go to India … I go to … you know, wherever my work takes me, I'm happy. Um, I would always like to have my home, my base in Vancouver but it's the work that drives me. It's not necessarily … um … I don't want to go `there' because … you know, I'm an actor I go where the work takes me. I have to be that versatile and I think it is important.

ALISEN: I think in this industry `that' can be everywhere. The superficiality can be everywhere. The game playing can be everywhere. Whether you choose to be a part of that game or not or chose to do it on your own terms is up to you. Um, you know casting couches can be everywhere. I think, um, yeah … Hollywood is this enigma, this mysterious, scary place. But I think wherever you go in this industry you are going to meet that. You are going to meet the superficial people; you are going to meet the people who want you to play their game in order to get them in the door. In any industry you are going to find that! But it's whether you choose to say `Oh, okay! I'll play your game' to get where I'm going or `You know what! I don't play that!' … this is what I want to do and this is how I'm going to get it done. It could take me two years longer then it would if I play your game but I'm going to do it my way.