Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "Penny is not a diva, but Sherry is"
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 25 | Aired on 07.16.2003
My impression is that lots of things are cut at the last minute… Well, they've been very good with leaving as much in as possible. I've never been watching and gone, "Oh wow, that's cut." Okay, once last season I realized something I did was cut, and this year, of course, the final episode was cut in places. Last year I realized that stuff was cut from my performance because they didn't want Sherry to have a conscience. The Jack Bauer character comes in and he says, "My daughter could die!" and Sherry is supposed to say, "I am so sorry about your daughter but you have to understand…" They cut that and made the Sherry character look like she didn't care. Like, "Screw your daughter!" That's in bad taste, as far as I'm concerned. It's coming from a place of dishonesty. You got to come from someplace real. When people come up to me and say, "Oh, Sherry's so evil," I have to agree because that's what it looks like. But when I'm playing her, she's not. I have to believe in her in order to make her believable. You can't just put your hands together and cackle. Uh, no. Although that's been known to happen on many different shows. [laughs] Why did you make so few appearances this season? That bothered me at the beginning because I thought that was a big mistake to wait to bring her on. And then when I came on, it was well worth the wait. We listen to the fans and Sherry was served up "well" for the fans. Well, she had to make an entrance. Absolutely, and you're wondering when you're going to see her and how she's coming. And then…she's BACK! And then it was a little bit disheartening in the middle because I wasn't around -- although it was nice to have a vacation [laughs] -- a paid vacation. But then when I did come back it was a surprise again. I think Sherry is a surprise element. She's the ace that you hold on to. Joss Whedon once said that what viewers want is not necessarily what they need. I wonder if this is why you and Nina were underused in the second season. I agree. If we'd been on every episode, it would be overkill. You always want more from those characters and you want to leave them wanting more. Of course when you're the actors playing it, you want to work more. [laughs] We have mouths to feed in our real lives. But I think that the good thing about Sherry is that unless you kill her, she will always come back.