NEW YORK (AP) — Lucy Lawless actually likes to go to court — even when she's not asked to serve on a jury.

The actress is fascinated by trials, and on days when she's not working will often go to court as a member of the public. There you'll find the onetime the "Xena: Warrior Princess" trying to look inconspicuous, soaking it all in.

Lawless has attended a murder trial in her native New Zealand, jury selection for a grisly case in Louisiana and was even at Jeffrey Epstein's bail hearing in New York when the financier faced sex trafficking charges.

Lawless' fascination with crime has filtered into her latest project, the new crime TV series "My Life is Murder," which premieres on Acorn TV starting August 5.

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