This is clearly not a glamorous job, though she discovered it on television: she wanted to be Dana Scully in The X-Files, specifically Scully in the episode ‘Bad Blood’ where she plays a forensic pathologist, autopsying victims of a drugged pizza murder. ‘It’s one of the funny ones,’ says Lara, who grew up watching late-night TV in the nineties just like I did, and abandoned the idea of becoming a forensic pathologist when she learned you had to become a doctor first. Then, even in full-time training, it takes five and a half years to qualify. She wanted to go straight to the mortuary and skip
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