‘Major Crimes’: Mary McDonnell goes from outsider to insider on TNT’s ‘Closer’ spinoff

A wonderful new interview with Mary McDonnell from Zap2it.com with good questions and some wonderful insights into Sharon as an evolving character.

“As she becomes an insider as opposed to an outsider, that mistrust doesn’t just dissipate — because that means we would have to have a completely different person there, and there wouldn’t have been that history. So what’s interesting about it for me — one of the many things that’s interesting — [is] working with that mistrust from the inside, and seeing where that can take us and what we have to do. I feel like it’s very reflective of what a lot of people go through” when they either change jobs or get new bosses.

There are always these adjustments that are difficult to make, so I sort of love that we see this happening inside this Major Crimes division.”

Read the whole thing here.