Post by Hestella on Sept 14, 2010 12:53:02 GMT -5
The article is from a TV guide called Télépoche
Thanks to ballettmaus who translated this in English.
Your leaving CSI NY came as a wide surprise and unexpected. What happened?
Six years, that’s already a long adventure. Yet how everything happened did upset me a little bit. It was a difficult choice which, looking at how the events came about, I made a bit hastily.
In fact, I thought about taking that step at the end of the seventh season. Then I wanted to pass on to something else. I have new desires. But I'll keept the memories of those fantastic six years with an exceptional team.
When did you think about leaving the show for the first time?
Towards the end of the fifth season. But now everything happened three weeks ago, just right before the filming for the seventh season started.
Until when did your contract last?
Season 7
Did you have the right to get out of it early?
Let's say, I was asked to revisit certain terms of my contract; that's when I decided I would move on.
They wanted to cut your pay?
Yes! I wasn't prepared for that, so I made a choice. Afterwards they changed their attitude and my pay wasn't a problem anymore. But I had come to the conclusion that I would leave and didn't want to go back to that issue.
Did they try to keep you at all cost?
Yes, my contract finally went back to what it was before. But I asked myself: should money keep me from doing what I really want? I want to listen to my heart.
I wondered whether I succeeded to create a character while doing my best, if I succeeded to make a heroine you have to admire. Yes, I did but as an actress, I also felt I had given all that I could. I didn't want to continue just for the money.
I was offered to leave, so I did. I wasn't asked to leave; let's say the production tried to impose odd choices on me.
Did that choice also have something to do with your character? Upon returning for the sixth season, Stella wasn't surrounded by subordinates anymore. I found it difficult insofar that Stella surely wouldn't have accepted it. At the same time I understood where the writers wanted to go: at the end of the fifth season everyone was shot at and following that, the characters were going into a direction that was a bit crazy. But that went on for episodes. (I'm not quite sure about that one... it could also mean that it changed back during the episodes. French terms can be confusing)
Will you really not be back to give Stella closure for at least one or two episodes?
At the moment, there are no such plans but you never know... I don't know how I will be written out. I just hope that it will be tasteful.
So, you filmed your last episode in spring without knowing. Is there any particular memory?
No. However, two episodes before the very last, Stella had a lot of action. That episode was very physical and moving, since it was about the demise of Marina. I also said to Pam Veasey, joking, that she's got something against me. First I get stuck with crappy guys, then I find myself in a car accident, wrecked. But those are excellent memories because that kind of action was Stella's strength and it allowed me to show new facets of Stella's character.
What are your current projects?
I recently bought the rights to the biography of Elizabeth Kubler Ross, a psychiatrist who, together with three other doctors, founded the first asylums in the US. She was a great, passionate woman. I'm writing a script about her.
I've also received and read several scripts since the announcement of my departure.
How did your girls react?
That's something I'd like to clarify: I didn't leave the show so I could spend more time with them. I accepted the part in the show because I knew I could spend time with my girls all the while I'm doing what I love.
Being a mother is the greatest gift there is but I also need to work. Furthermore did I show my daughters that you can do both. Now they're hoping just one thing: that they will be able to watch whatever I'll do next because they weren't allowed to watch CSI NY.
How are you now?
I'm thrilled to start new things. It's a new beginning, I'm at ease with myself and that's what matters most.
Thanks to ballettmaus who translated this in English.
Your leaving CSI NY came as a wide surprise and unexpected. What happened?
Six years, that’s already a long adventure. Yet how everything happened did upset me a little bit. It was a difficult choice which, looking at how the events came about, I made a bit hastily.
In fact, I thought about taking that step at the end of the seventh season. Then I wanted to pass on to something else. I have new desires. But I'll keept the memories of those fantastic six years with an exceptional team.
When did you think about leaving the show for the first time?
Towards the end of the fifth season. But now everything happened three weeks ago, just right before the filming for the seventh season started.
Until when did your contract last?
Season 7
Did you have the right to get out of it early?
Let's say, I was asked to revisit certain terms of my contract; that's when I decided I would move on.
They wanted to cut your pay?
Yes! I wasn't prepared for that, so I made a choice. Afterwards they changed their attitude and my pay wasn't a problem anymore. But I had come to the conclusion that I would leave and didn't want to go back to that issue.
Did they try to keep you at all cost?
Yes, my contract finally went back to what it was before. But I asked myself: should money keep me from doing what I really want? I want to listen to my heart.
I wondered whether I succeeded to create a character while doing my best, if I succeeded to make a heroine you have to admire. Yes, I did but as an actress, I also felt I had given all that I could. I didn't want to continue just for the money.
I was offered to leave, so I did. I wasn't asked to leave; let's say the production tried to impose odd choices on me.
Did that choice also have something to do with your character? Upon returning for the sixth season, Stella wasn't surrounded by subordinates anymore. I found it difficult insofar that Stella surely wouldn't have accepted it. At the same time I understood where the writers wanted to go: at the end of the fifth season everyone was shot at and following that, the characters were going into a direction that was a bit crazy. But that went on for episodes. (I'm not quite sure about that one... it could also mean that it changed back during the episodes. French terms can be confusing)
Will you really not be back to give Stella closure for at least one or two episodes?
At the moment, there are no such plans but you never know... I don't know how I will be written out. I just hope that it will be tasteful.
So, you filmed your last episode in spring without knowing. Is there any particular memory?
No. However, two episodes before the very last, Stella had a lot of action. That episode was very physical and moving, since it was about the demise of Marina. I also said to Pam Veasey, joking, that she's got something against me. First I get stuck with crappy guys, then I find myself in a car accident, wrecked. But those are excellent memories because that kind of action was Stella's strength and it allowed me to show new facets of Stella's character.
What are your current projects?
I recently bought the rights to the biography of Elizabeth Kubler Ross, a psychiatrist who, together with three other doctors, founded the first asylums in the US. She was a great, passionate woman. I'm writing a script about her.
I've also received and read several scripts since the announcement of my departure.
How did your girls react?
That's something I'd like to clarify: I didn't leave the show so I could spend more time with them. I accepted the part in the show because I knew I could spend time with my girls all the while I'm doing what I love.
Being a mother is the greatest gift there is but I also need to work. Furthermore did I show my daughters that you can do both. Now they're hoping just one thing: that they will be able to watch whatever I'll do next because they weren't allowed to watch CSI NY.
How are you now?
I'm thrilled to start new things. It's a new beginning, I'm at ease with myself and that's what matters most.
