He's sort of a loose cannon with a quick wit, ... He's somebody who of course is intense. I always wind up playing somebody a little intense. Maybe I'm just intense.
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I pretty much do what I like. There was a little concern when I first started the show from TNT that maybe I was a little too soft. They didn't really get where I was coming from, because I'm funny.Lee Tergesen
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
Lee Tergesen
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
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I do miss kissing Meloni, ... I'll be honest with you, I really do miss it. He's such a good actor. But you know what, ka-ching. I'd have to do this job for 30 years before I made the kind of money he's making on NBC.
Lee Tergesen
Some of the critics say, Where's the gray,' ... Forget that. A friend of mine sent me an e-mail, It's nice to see something where things are so clean-cut, not like The Sopranos, where he's a killer, but he's a wonderful family man.'
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It's not the first time I had to get in drag, ... Oz.
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