Beals is genuinely enjoying her experience filming The L Word, and personal fulfillment -- not to mention fun -- has always been key to her career choices.
"My hero as a child was Secretariat," she muses. "I went with my father to Louisville, and we watched the Kentucky Derby. And I think the most important thing I gathered from that was the joy with which he ran. He was so happy racing. It was like he wasn't working.
"I go where I want to be in a story, whether that's in Berlin or the Phillippines or New York or England. I just follow the story."





