Vivica's Gone Missing
This month, fans of Missing were wowed by the difference in Lifetime's psychic police drama. Gone is the misleading former title 1-800-MISSING. (Those are actually the digits for a "clairvoyant hotline" unrelated to the series!) Kill Bill's Vivica A. Fox has replaced ER's Gloria Reuben as the leading lady cop. Sole original cast member Caterina Scorsone is now a full-fledged FBI agent whose new G-Man colleagues include All My Children's Mark Consuelos and Justin Louis (who's starred in too many failed sitcoms to mention). The show's also set in Washington, D.C. Of course, Miss Vivica is the best change of all.
"I would have been a fool to pass up this opportunity," enthuses Fox, who plays badass agent Nicole Scott. She also enjoys some creative control as coexecutive producer, and owns a stake in Missing. "I'm very, very happy at the Lifetime network." (Translation: "Ca-ching!")
Other actresses might've withered under the physical requirements of the role, but Fox's action-film background made it a cinch. "I never let go of the Kill Bill training that got me in the best shape of my life," she says. "I still work out doing Tae Bo three to five times a week."
And while Fox did spend a day at the FBI's Los Angeles field office, where Missing is filmed, she didn't have much new to learn. As if the portrayer of Vernita Green (aka "Copperhead") didn't already have the know-how to kick butt and hold a piece properly!
"I don't think there was anything that Quentin Tarantino showed us to do wrong," Fox notes. "Kill Bill was like training for the Olympics, which I hated at times, but I thank him because it made me extremely disciplined."
