TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Alexa Havins joined 'Doctor Who' spinoff 'Torchwood' at urging of fanboy husband, Justin Bruening
BY David Hinckley
Sunday, July 3rd 2011
After Alexa Havins and her husband, Justin Bruening, had their first child last August — Lexington, a girl — Havins figured she'd take a break from a fairly busy acting career "and just have some mommy time."
But the acting biz shows very little respect for plans, even simple ones.
One phone call, says Havins, "can change everything..."
... A spinoff from the BBC classic "Doctor Who," "Torchwood" is entering its fourth season on the BBC. But this year, in an unusual arrangement, the U.S. network Starz has become a partner and will start running it here next Friday (10 p.m.) as a new, 10-part stand-alone series.
You might call it a transatlantic simulcast. Whatever you call it, much of the action in the show shifts from Britain to the U.S., so naturally it needs some American characters.
This includes Rex Matheson (Mekhi Phifer), a manic, highly skilled loose cannon of a CIA agent, and Esther Drummond, his buttoned-down assistant, who is much more comfortable with computers than with guns and grilling mysterious perps.
Esther is where Havins comes in...
"I had never really been into 'Torchwood' myself," says Havins. "But my husband was. So I'd walk into the room and he'd be watching and I'd sit down and kind of got into it. So I was probably a little more familiar with it than other people when we started..."
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