Post by longislanditalian2 on Sept 25, 2009 8:24:54 GMT -5
This is a tidbit of the KM interview the rest will be posted in the spoiler section due to spoilers which can be found here
From the futon critic...
Jim Halterman: When you first signed on to headline the show seven years ago, did you have a feeling "Cold Case" would click with viewers?
Kathryn Morris: When I did the pilot, I had a very strong instinct that it would. It wasn't just the elements on paper but it seemed like it would be a good idea and it was a very unique hook in the show with the flashbacks and music. Then, there were also no female cops. There were no female-driven shows at the time in this arena and so that was a new thing. However, that, to me, was the weight of the world. I thought, "Wow, if this thing tanks I might have something to do with it!" [Laughs.] It was exciting. Good butterflies.
JH: You have 134 episodes under your belt as of the end of last season. At this point, are you still learning things about Lilly or do you know her as well as you can?
KM: We have a new set of executive producers last season and this one and they really bring fresh, new life into the series which is why I think we got picked up for a seventh season. They took the classic blueprint of "Cold Case" and just kind of turned everything on its head so the characters are evolving even more than we realized. Because of the fallout of the strike, it really gave us access to some good writers out there. Many writers, after the whole trauma of the strike, these writers thought, "I really want to work on a show that I really want to work on," and this is such a playground for writing for a different period and having you make it pointed and universal in the present day. With the new writers that we have and the new dynamics of what we have coming for each of our characters this year... I learn all kinds of new things about Lilly all the time. I know who she is completely but I love to see, "Oh, how's she going to handle this?," or how she's dealing with something else at the same time. She's got a full plate that's different than the plate she had two seasons ago and now she's overcome certain aspects of her job or her personal life and she's at a new plateau.
JH: This past spring, you did a non-"Cold Case" case about something that was only happening in the present.
KM: That must have been "Officer Down." I really loved that one. I think it could have gone cold but it was really an out-of-the-box thing to do and we've earned the right to do that since we've been on for so long. I think our audience appreciates that and we got such great feedback on that episode and I think a shoot up in the ratings that week. I love Thom Barry, who plays Will Jefferies, and when you're invested in characters for so many years the audience really gets a taste of, "Oh no, I really love him. He reminds me of my Uncle. He's my favorite voice on television." It was a very experimental episode so I really loved it.
JH: Since the show can get really intense depending on the storylines and what your character is doing, do you like it when you get to play lighter scenes or stories?
KM: I like it when we have some suspects that are quite the characters. We did an episode recently where I kept this woman waiting for several hours in the interrogation room because we knew she was going to get antsy and eventually she's going to get annoyed because she's been waiting for so long. So when I come in she's all snappy with me and says, "This is bs! I asked for a soda many hours ago!," but I knew that was exactly where I wanted her to be. For me, when the lightness comes out of the truth of these whackadoos that are out there it allows the truth to come out by their own stupidity.
The rest of this interview can be found in the spoiler section and [url=
www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20090925_coldcase
]KM INTERVIEW[/url]
From the futon critic...
Jim Halterman: When you first signed on to headline the show seven years ago, did you have a feeling "Cold Case" would click with viewers?
Kathryn Morris: When I did the pilot, I had a very strong instinct that it would. It wasn't just the elements on paper but it seemed like it would be a good idea and it was a very unique hook in the show with the flashbacks and music. Then, there were also no female cops. There were no female-driven shows at the time in this arena and so that was a new thing. However, that, to me, was the weight of the world. I thought, "Wow, if this thing tanks I might have something to do with it!" [Laughs.] It was exciting. Good butterflies.
JH: You have 134 episodes under your belt as of the end of last season. At this point, are you still learning things about Lilly or do you know her as well as you can?
KM: We have a new set of executive producers last season and this one and they really bring fresh, new life into the series which is why I think we got picked up for a seventh season. They took the classic blueprint of "Cold Case" and just kind of turned everything on its head so the characters are evolving even more than we realized. Because of the fallout of the strike, it really gave us access to some good writers out there. Many writers, after the whole trauma of the strike, these writers thought, "I really want to work on a show that I really want to work on," and this is such a playground for writing for a different period and having you make it pointed and universal in the present day. With the new writers that we have and the new dynamics of what we have coming for each of our characters this year... I learn all kinds of new things about Lilly all the time. I know who she is completely but I love to see, "Oh, how's she going to handle this?," or how she's dealing with something else at the same time. She's got a full plate that's different than the plate she had two seasons ago and now she's overcome certain aspects of her job or her personal life and she's at a new plateau.
JH: This past spring, you did a non-"Cold Case" case about something that was only happening in the present.
KM: That must have been "Officer Down." I really loved that one. I think it could have gone cold but it was really an out-of-the-box thing to do and we've earned the right to do that since we've been on for so long. I think our audience appreciates that and we got such great feedback on that episode and I think a shoot up in the ratings that week. I love Thom Barry, who plays Will Jefferies, and when you're invested in characters for so many years the audience really gets a taste of, "Oh no, I really love him. He reminds me of my Uncle. He's my favorite voice on television." It was a very experimental episode so I really loved it.
JH: Since the show can get really intense depending on the storylines and what your character is doing, do you like it when you get to play lighter scenes or stories?
KM: I like it when we have some suspects that are quite the characters. We did an episode recently where I kept this woman waiting for several hours in the interrogation room because we knew she was going to get antsy and eventually she's going to get annoyed because she's been waiting for so long. So when I come in she's all snappy with me and says, "This is bs! I asked for a soda many hours ago!," but I knew that was exactly where I wanted her to be. For me, when the lightness comes out of the truth of these whackadoos that are out there it allows the truth to come out by their own stupidity.
The rest of this interview can be found in the spoiler section and [url=
www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20090925_coldcase
]KM INTERVIEW[/url]
