If you're searching for a new crush, you're guaranteed to have a new one by the end of this interview with the bubbly and beautiful Lauren Compton! The blonde beauty began her career as a model before transitioning into acting, where she has racked up some very impressive credits over the last few years, appearing on such hit shows as I'm Dying Up Hereand the recently cancelled Here and Now, as well as future cult classics like Attack of the Killer Donuts and ClownTown.
Lauren's also a stand-up comic, and her Instagram page is full of bits from her stand-up as well as some sensationally sexy selfies! I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Lauren about her work on the boob tube, her experiences as a stand-up, and even a new venture she's just launching called "Tub Talk," of which she has granted us an exclusive preview of the first episode! Read on to learn more about this stunningly hot, fantastically funny woman who is guaranteed to be your new crush!
Skin Central: Looking over your imdb credits, you seem to be quite comfortable bouncing back and forth between film and television. Do you have a preference for one over the other?
Lauren Compton:Well, they're two different animals. I feel like what I love about doing movies is that you can really dive into the character for an extended period of time. With TV, it's more like a day player role—at least for me, so far, because I'm not a series regular on anything. So everything I do is like one to three days of work, and it's mostly comedies that I've done on TV, so it's not so much character driven.If I had to pick one over the other, I'd have to pick TV. I think being on a sitcom is my ultimate dream.
SC: Okay, awesome. I know that you do stand-up comedy as well. Did your worlds collide a bit when you appeared on I’m Dying Up Here, and did you pick up any comedy pointers just hanging around the set?
LC: (Laughs) Yeah, I mean, I think with stand-up comedy it's such an anomaly because I started doing stand-up on a regular basis right when I did I'm Dying Up Here. So it was perfect timing for me to be on that show, but the show is very dark, and so when were filming it, there wasn't a ton of comedy happening, it was more of a drama going on.
But I think doing stand-up comedy is such a formidable thing, and it's so scary, so when you take away all of that and then put it in front of a camera, it's so much easier because it's scripted and you know what's gonna happen. And with stand-up,I'm kind of likealways fifty/fifty, am I gonna talk to the audience? Are things gonna go really well or really south? You never know.
SC: I was going to ask if you had any good stories about hecklers or a nightmare gig you might want to share?
LC: Oh my god, yes! (Both laugh) This one guy... I was at this show, and I have this bit where I talk about Playboy and my Playboy experience, and it's self-deprecating and it's honestly one of my favorite bits to do. I have stopped doing it because a lot of families are in my audience, and sometimes they're a little put off if I'm talking about Playboy.
Anyway, at the time that I was doing this bit, I didn't give a fuck, and I'm right in the middle of talking about all of the things and this guy in the back just yells out, "SLUT!" in the middle of me saying this, and I was like, "Sir, if you could please call your wife after the show, that would be great."
SC: (Laughs) That's great, bravo.
LC: So I just kept moving forward with my material, but I couldn't believe it, and after the showI was talking with some of my friends and the other comics, and I'm like, "Who was that fucking asshole that said 'slut' in the middle of my set?" and they were like, "It was another comic." And my mind was blown. Another comic? Another supposed professional just blurts out like a heckler? How lame. But it made me feel better because I was just like, "Oh, you're just an asshole anyway."
So yeah, I've had that happen. A lot of people talk to me during my set, which is very strange, andit never happens to anyone else. I guess it's a compliment because they feel it's so conversational, but a lot of times I'll be up there talking and at every single show somebody in the audience will shout, "Get back together with him!" or whatever and I'm just like, (laughing) "This isn't a conversation that we're having. We're not at a dinner table."
But it's okay. It's okay, I don't mind people verbalizing their thoughts. I think it's actually funny and it's fun to play off of, but I always think it's very interesting that people love to speak up when I'm up there.
A post shared by Lauren Compton (@iamlaurencompton)
SC: Well, I feel like you're dealing with it well, I don't know that I would deal with it so well.
LC: (Both laugh) I don't know that I'm dealing with it well...
SC: Your philosophy is sound, I'll say that.
LC: Thank you
SC: Are you allowed to talk at all aboutthe talk show you're launching?
LC: It's called "Tub Talk" and it's a talk show that happens in my bath tub, and it's a comedy, and it's very weird and awkward and funny. It's not sexual at all, I wear a one-piece that goes up to my neck, there's no cleavage...
LC: You have to imagine this as like a nine-year-old mentality in a bubble bath, and we have a bath board in between me and the other person, and a mug that says "Tub Talk with Lauren Compton." It looks likea late night show that's happening in a bubble bath, and we're wearing shower caps.
The way that it starts off is I introduce a guest and then the guest appears with me in the bath tub wearing a shower cap, and they're very fun shower caps, they're sequin-y and fun! We play a game, this episode I just shot we play "2 Truths and a Lie with Super Soakers." So if I guess and I'm right, I get to soak the person, and if I'm wrong, they get to soak me.
SC: Nice.
LC: So we play a game and then we go into an interview, every episode is around three to four minutes, very short episodes. Then I close the show, make the guest disappear, and then we end it. So, it's literally just a talk show from my bath tub.
SC: Do you find that your conversational style, as you mentioned before about your stand-up, does that translate here as well? Do you find that people are more open because of the ridiculousness of the scenario?
LC: You mean in the tub?
SC: Yes
LC: Oh yeah! One of the camera angles is from up above the tub, so you'll be able to see just how awkward it is to try and fit two people in my bath tub. Our feet are touching, our legs are touching, I can reach right under the table and pet someone's leg, it's very intimate quarters. And so, it's hard to not be open.
I think that the most interesting part about it, and why I created this show, is that I have yet to interview someone that can hold back on anything. We're sitting in the same little bubble bath, and I've pulled out some really great things from people in this little, tiny, intimate setting. I'd love to be one of the things that Kimmel or someone throws to, like, "Let's see what's up with Lauren in the tub," and then have, I don't know, Dwayne Johnson, who barely fits in a bath tub alone, I'm sure. To me, that's pure comedy.
SC: Absolutely.
LC: My ultimate vision for the show is, just like any other talk show, getting really real with these intimate questions. Igot the idea one night atastand-up comedy show, Kevin Hart's ex-wife went up on stage to do a set, and she said, "I wannahave a TED Talk. Ihave nocomedy ready for tonight, I just want to do a TED Talk."
Well, I don't know if I was drunk or high, but I'm listening to her and I kept hearing her say, "TUB Talk," and I'm like, "Why is she saying Tub Talk, she's not in a tub? Does she even know what she's saying." But later, I was thinking, "You know what would be really fun is to do Tub Talk, to do this from a bath tub." It evolved over time into just being interviews, because no one cared about my rants. All people want to see are awkward interviews with special guests and celebrities, and ultimately I hope to be doing one of these a week.
SC: To change the subject a bit, I was wondering what your thoughts are on being immortalized here on Mr. Skin for your nude scene on Here Now?
LC: Oh yeah, I haven't even seen it yet. How does it look?
SC: It looks fantastic!(Both laugh)
LC: It was a very interesting show, and one of the reasons I wanted to do it is that it wasn't just nudity. It was really driving the story of this guy who grew up with his prostitute mom and he has thisweird, backward way of trying to be a good person, but also addicted to banging women. He literally can't get past it.
So they asked me if I wanted to be one of these women, and at first I was like, "There's no lines." (Both laugh) So, at first I was really standoffish about it, but any time you look at something like that you ask who's attached—who's directing, who are the actors, are they credible? So I took one look at the cast and everyone involved and I was like, "Yeah, let's do this."
LC: They had to put, like, a pasty on my vagina. It was the weirdest thing ever. It was this strip, like underwear without the sides, and it was like superglued on, and I'm like, "Is this gonna be like a Brazilian wax when I take this thing off?" and they're like, "It'll be fine." (Both laugh) It was sort of like a female cup, I guess.
So they put that thing on me and I filmed for maybe thirty minutes, that whole thing. It was a couple of takes. They were like, "Okay, he's gonna fuck you over here, and he's gonna fuck you there, and he's gonna fuck you there," and I'm like, "Cool, anywhere else you guys wanna fuck?" (Both laugh)
SC: Yeah, hey, "While I'm here..."
LC: Yeah, we kinda played around the area and I thought it was quite comical. They're like, "Hmmm... let's try it over here" and I'm like, "Is this what porn feels like, only I'm not getting paid as much?" (Both laugh) Although, I suppose I'm not really getting fucked.
SC: Yeah, there is that.
LC: That was a really interesting little bit that I did, and I feel like a lot of people know about it. I, for some reason, have never seen the episode. I should. Maybe I'm a little scared to see it, too, like, "Do I want to see myself in that position?"
SC: Do you have a favorite nude scene from a film or one that stands out to you as being extremely memorable?
LC: Let me think for a minute, good question. I think the first sexy lady I ever saw, and this is gonna be really weird, was on Star Trek, it was the character Seven of Nine. She was wearing this silver, skin-tight one piece and I just thought she was the sexiest thing ever like, wow, that woman is just shaped perfectly. To wear that outfit you kind of have to be a supermodel, too, but I thought that she was just the first female that I was like, "Whoa!"
SC: I would not be surprised to find out a lot of our readers had the exact same sexual awakening to Seven of Nine.
LC: Right? I mean, her hair, her demeanor, her confidence, everything. I think that's what made we want to be an actor, too. I wanna be just like Seven of Nine. I wanna look like her, I wanna act like her, I just wanna be her.
I'm trying to think of the first actual nude scene that really stood out for me. My taste in movies is so weird. I'm trying to think of the last time I even saw nudity in a movie. I think it was Wolf of Wall Street, and that was beautifully done.
SC: Is there anything else you’d like your fans to know, or perhaps anyone that’s discovering you for the first time?
LC: Yeah, I think they should check out my Instagram, and also people can head over to my YouTube channel for "Tub Talk," so they can kind of pre-subscribe to it. Our plan now is to release new episodes in July, but there's some stuff up there now for anyone that wants to check it out!
