Christa Miller plays a funny doctor on Scrubs. Even there, her dialogue is mainly berating others, not discussing diseases. In The Andromeda Strain, she plays it all straight.
Christa Miller Fights The Andromeda Strain
"A very serious doctor, not funny at all, so that was very serious," said Miller. "Someone said to me the other day, 'You're just so serious.' So that's a very serious biologist doctor. It's much harder. It gets jumbled up on your tongue. It's much harder doing comedy, but it's harder doing words that my husband doesn't write for me."
Though she does both comedy and drama, it is not the genre she identifies with her comfort level. "I'm obviously at home at Scrubs because we're in our eighth season and it's a family there, but everyone in this group was fantastic and we had fun there too. I like doing both."
One major difference was all the green screen work on the sci-fi miniseries. "I've done green screen before and it's always difficult but you kind of have to laugh it off. You can't take yourself too seriously with green screen. You just kind of go, 'Okay, that's what it is.'"
Between Andromeda Strain and Scrubs, Miller has done plenty of medical research. "Well, my dad's a doctor, so he's a surgeon, so he showed me how to use a scalpel and all those things because you didn't want to go up there and look like you don't know what you're doing. The only medical physical thing I had to do is do the scalpel properly twice."
Miller did not read the book or see the original Andromeda Strain movie. " I hear that the lead of the original movie is my neighbor, which is just random. It has nothing to do with anything. I think it would have been distracting and then I think it's quite different than the original so I don’t even know if my character existed. I think it was a man in the previous movie so I don't know if it would be that helpful to me."
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