TV Tattler: Celebrity Interviews
'The Closer' Star Kyra Sedgwick Comes Clean
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Never say never. Either in front or behind the camera, so we’ll see.
What can you tell us about season two?
She starts out the new season trying to give up sugar. She finds it to be something that's controlling her and that she's not able to control. She’s got a lot of obstacles coming her way in the first episode, with Fritz wanting to move in and her mother coming to visit possibly. So I think there's a lot going on. This year, you're going to get to know more about her personal life, and I think the scripts we have are better and even more interesting than they were last year. I think people who know Brenda really love her because she's so deeply flawed and I think they see themselves in her.
It’s unusual for a strong, good-looking female character to have an addiction to sugar.
Yeah, but isn’t it so real? I mean who doesn’t have some kind of food issue in America? Very few of us.
Brenda enjoys secretly indulging in her sugar fix. Do you have a favorite snack?
My favorite chocolates are See’s Candies, which you can actually only get on the West coast. So it’s a great thing about L.A., those See’s Candies. I’ve been known to eat privately and enjoy that, but I wouldn’t say that I’m so secretive about it -- or at least I’m not anymore. I think that belies a sort of deeper confusion about -- or complicated feelings about -- being in and out of control. I think food and feelings can often be mixed up, and I think Brenda has a definite issue with that.
What is your favorite moment or scene from the show?
I love the scene in the first episode of the second season between her and Pope -- I love her moments with Pope (J.K. Simmons), because they’re rife with a lot of history. I think that’s a really fun thing to play as an actor. I love some of her new one-liners, when she says in this first episode, "If you don’t like the way we play ball here, you’re free to take your balls and go straight home," to one of the chiefs of the LAPD. I just love that.
Congratulations on being the only female nominee (against Alan Alda, James Gandolfini, Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland) for the Television Critic's Association 2006 Awards in the Individual Achievement in Drama category.
I know that really blew me away. To me that was one of the highlights of my month. I mean, I can’t believe that, it was just very touching and I was really happy.
If you could go back in time and give yourself advice -- how far back would you go and what would the advice be?
I would say to myself ,"Don’t feel so guilty about working." When my kids were younger, every single time I worked, I put myself through such the ringer about it. And when I see them now and see how well they’ve turned out I think, "Aye, why did I give myself such a hard time?"
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