In a newly posted interview from May, Mary McDonnell talks to craveonline.com about taking over the lead of Major Crimes, and the evolution of Sharon Raydor from antagonist to protagonist on Major Crimes.

“I think that that’s happening to more and more women in my generation where at this point, we are being offered even bigger jobs at a point in time where the generation before us was retiring. We’re going deeper into it and I think she’s going to have to also, because she’s been Internal Affairs for so long, the original detective in her has had to be put aside for quite a while because she had to view the detectives.

She had to view their way. That was her job. So suddenly, whoever the detective is inside of Raydor that was her original impulse is going to need to resurface. I’m excited to see who that is because I don’t know yet.”

Read the whole interview here.