Elizabeth Reaser
(Alice Alden, M.D.)

Q: How would you describe SAVED?
A: I would describe SAVED as a character study of people who are living in chaos, trying to save people's lives and scrambling to make sense of their own.

Q: Who is Alice?
A: Alice is someone who comes from a very complicated family and thrives on the chaos and insanity of working in an emergency room. She's a first-year resident and is really trying to be a normal person within all of that. She is fighting so hard to be happy in the world. She is really trying to control things that are out of her control, such as her desires, passions and fears.

Q: What is Alice's relationship with Wyatt?
A: Wyatt is technically Alice's ex-boyfriend, and there's a real dangerous chemistry between the two characters. They have a terrifying, kinetic, uncontrollable attraction to one another. Alice is just fighting it every step of the way because Wyatt is trouble, and he frightens Alice because he's difficult. It's an exciting and vulnerable struggle knowing that you love someone but are unable to make a relationship work with that person. It's one of the biggest heartbreaks there is in the world, so that is scary and exciting.

Q: Why do audiences like medical dramas?
A: Medical dramas have life-or-death situations. Any time the stakes are that high, it's going to reveal a lot about the people who are involved. It's really the most vulnerable, the most open, most revealed you can possibly be when you're in a situation where you're trying to save someone's life.

Q: Where is the drama in SAVED?
A: The drama of SAVED comes from the passion, the desire and the fear. It comes from the longing to connect.

Q: What part does humor play in drama?
A: Humor is the only way to make it through these intense, frightening situations that our characters face. I hung out in an ER when I was researching for this role, and I found that the doctors were really funny. They were always finding the humor within these frightening, high-intensity situations. Humor is real. Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.