Archive for Interviews
Kyra’s appearance on Regis and Kelly is posted on You Tube.
From SheKnows.com
Sedgwick’s Brenda began the cavalcade of award-winning actresses of film migrating to TNT. After Sedgwick and The Closer, Oscar-winner Holly Hunter rocked Saving Grace, and now Jada Pinkett-Smith is joining the drama powerhouse this summer with her Hawthorne.
When The Closer films in LA, the wife of Kevin Bacon is 3,000 miles from home in New York. The Golden Globe winner shares how, as her own family grows up, she looks at her Closer family more maternally.
Sedgwick’s street smarts
SheKnows: With each passing season, The Closer only seems to become more real. The new season premiere is a classic example. What aids you on set with that process?
Kyra Sedgwick: Well, we have someone on the show who is a 25-year vet of the LAPD. He was originally sort of our — just someone we consulted. Now he’s a writer on the show. The way he talks about crime is always from the victim’s point of view, and I think that this is a vision that’s shared with James Duff, the creator of the show. Brenda is the advocate for the victim and the victim’s family — and is sometimes the only living, breathing person who is advocating for the victim. And because of that, I think we have to include those who are affected by the murder of somebody. I definitely do think that it is somewhat of a mission statement of the show — to really be the advocate of the victim, show what murder’s really like, how it affects people… the horror of it.