Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bride of Kiefer speaks
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 25 | Aired on 05.30.2002
That's what I love about the show. It's a little pulpy, so you think you've seen it before. You keep expecting your character to be the typical action series wife -- a simpering victim who knows how to use a gun -- but Teri keeps surprising us with both her strength and her vulnerability.
The female characters on this show are unusually complex. I've played the simpering wife before, believe me. And I've played the bad-ass parts where I literally turn myself invisible and shoot people with lasers. So it was so great to finally play a female character that made sense to me. Stephen and the writers deserve a lot of credit for making Teri so credible.
When did you realize that this show was going to be special?
I think I was the last one to know. I've been acting for twenty years, and I'm always the last person to know that things are going to go well or my way. I had a fantastic time during the pilot but I thought, "Oh, that will be it." But then the critical buzz starting coming in after we made the pilot and we realized that not only were we going to be picked up, but we were a really advanced television show. So I got my hopes up a little bit, but I didn't quite allow myself to believe it. So then we were picked up and kept having a better and better time, and I remember sitting on the steps with Kiefer and he was asking me how I liked the show. We weren't working together that much.
Right. Because you're out looking for Kim.
Right. And I remember telling him, "This is the best job I've ever had." And he said, "Me too." And even still, I couldn't quite believe that it was going to be picked up for the second half. It was too good to be true. So I think it hit me about a month ago. [laughs]
And when it started to actually air on television? What kind of response did you get from viewers?
Well, in November, when it started to air, I was avidly following the response on the 'net. Mostly on the Fox site. But it's only been in the last month that people started recognizing me on the street. People are coming up to me and telling me that it's their favorite show.
Do you feel like you're famous now? Are you being mobbed?
Well, I'm hardly George Clooney, do you know what I'm saying? But when we were at the Golden Globes, my boyfriend remarked that it was strange to see all these people that you sort of recognize from TV and the movies -- you don't know who they are but they sure look familiar -- you're trying to scope everybody out and they're looking back. So that was strange.