Natalie Zea Looks Back on "The Shield"

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Memories From the Set: Natalie Zea on "The Shield"


Zea's first post-Passions gig was playing "Vic Mackey's love interest for a second" on the acclaimed cable drama. Specially, she played a K9 officer — no small feat in that at the time, "I wasn't necessarily a dog person, in terms of I never had one growing up."

Luckily she was paired with "the sweetest animal I've ever encountered" — and series lead Michael Chiklis wasn't so bad, either. "I was Michael's first love scene, but he handled himself like a pro," Zea relates.

"There's always that moment like, 'Hey, I've never done this before. It's weird, right?' and my job is to say, 'Yes, it's weird.' That's all that people want to hear doing a love scene, is that you feel as funky as they do."

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