The Melrose Place star tells one about bastard children, then talks about the fanfare of being on TV while still in high school

An old married couple had four boys. The older three had red hair and light skin, the youngest had black hair and dark eyes. On his deathbed, the father turned to his wife and said, “Honey, be honest with me. Is our youngest son my child?” The wife replied, “I swear on everything holy, he is your son.” Then he passed away. The wife then said, “Thank God he didn’t ask about the other three.”

About the Jokester: Not long ago, 24-year-old Jessica Lucas was just your average Canadian high school student… playing your average Canadian high school student on the hit (Canadian) drama Edgemont. Despite the show’s popularity among her classmates, Lucas claims she managed to have a relatively normal high school experience: “I kind of avoided telling people at school when I was on TV, and they didn’t really make too much fanfare about it.” After graduating from high school, Lucas headed to Hollywood. She appeared in last year’s monster flick Cloverfield and currently costars on Melrose Place as a schoolteacher living in television’s most infamous apartment complex. We hope she’ll forgive us for making fanfare about it.

Source: Esquire

Last year she starred in monster hit Cloverfield and rocked a few eps of 90210. This year, 23-year-old rising star Jessica Lucas will be stealing the primetime spotlight with her role in The CW’s rebooted Melrose Place.

When did you first hear about the Melrose Place revamp? Did your recurring role on 90210 help put you in the running for MP?
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Hollyscoop caught up with Jessica Lucas of the new Melrose Place at the Invisible Children event last week. She gave us the scoop on who’s in the cast, and how much pressure they are under for the remake.

You may remember Jessica from the new 90210, in which she played Kimberly. But Jess has moved on to the new remake in town, and plays one of the main characters.

She told us, “I play Riley Richmond is her name and she’s one of the tenants of Melrose Place. We finished shooting yesterday actually, the pilot.”

As for who else is in the cast, Jessica gave us the full rundown: “Yeah Ashlee Simpson, Michael Rady, Katie Cassidy, Stephanie Jacobsen, Colin Egglesfield, Shaun Sipos, and two originals from Melrose Place are Thomas Calabro who played Michael Mancini and Laura Leighton who played Sidney.”

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