October 2 - 8, 2022 BY JAY BOBBIN
Marg Helgenberger
OF ‘CSI: VEGAS’ ON CBS
How is it for you to reprise your “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” role of Catherine Willows among a new group of actors on “CSI: Vegas”?
It’s always fun to be around younger energy and new ideas. Certainly, they’re a lot more adept at technology than I am ... or ever will be! I really feel respected (by the show’s other stars) for my 40-year career, and that’s something I appreciate.
Hilary Swank stars in “Alaska Daily,” premiering Thursday on ABC.
Is it meaningful to you that original “CSI” creator Anthony E. Zuiker is still involved with the franchise as an executive producer?
He actually wrote an episode (of “CSI: Vegas”) for me that involves my (character’s) daughter, and that was a great experience. Anthony left “CSI” when the “NY” spinoff launched, and he was sort of working on the “Miami” spinoff, but he wasn’t around our show as much after Season 2 from what I remember. With this episode, he was there every day, sort of co-directing. He had such a specific vision for this, and it was fun, though it was hard work. I felt that both of us had matured to the point where we were much more open to making things tighter or whatever. With almost every take, we were fine-tuning it. The give-and-take was exciting. It seems like work has stayed pretty consistent for you ever since your Primetime Emmy-winning run on “China Beach.” Does that surprise you?
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‘Alaska Daily’ returns Hilary Swank to series television
This year has been like whiplash, between “CSI. Vegas” and “All Rise” (which OWN picked up after CBS canceled it). I lost people, and I got married, and I had a grandbaby. And to be working a lot on top of that, it’s been one for the record books.