Jodi Lyn O'Keefe with Kunal Nayyar, The Big Bang Theory
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is going from Prison Break bad girl to sitcom working girl, with a guest-starring turn on this Monday's The Big Bang Theory (8 pm/ET, CBS). O'Keefe gave us a look at exactly who of the Big Bangers she'll "do business" with, as well as shared a glimpse at her return to prison.
TVGuide.com: Had you seen The Big Bang Theory before?
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: Oh yes. I'm [series creator] Chuck Lorre's biggest fan, and have been working with him my whole life. He usually brings me on to the shows that he's doing to either guest-star or recur. I couldn't be happier.
TVGuide.com: Right, you've been on Two and a Half Men...
O'Keefe: Twice, and I recurred on Dharma & Greg.... I adore Chuck — he is one of the funniest men in Hollywood. He really knows how to write.
TVGuide.com: Let's talk about Big Bang Theory's Mikayla.
O'Keefe: I'm a hooker ...
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She Bangs! O'Keefe cozies up to Koothrappali.
What happens in Vegas ... apparently will be played for maximum comic effect when the boys of The Big Bang Theory cross paths with Prison Break alumna Jodi Lyn O'Keefe.
In the CBS hitcom's April 27 episode, Leonard and Koothrappali escort a heartbroken Wolowitz to Las Vegas. There, O'Keefe boots the geeks' hard drives as Mikayla, a "working girl" — and not in the Melanie Griffith vein.
Meanwhile...
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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Prison Break
Warning: The following Q&A contains spoiler information from the Dec. 22 midseason finale of Prison Break.
Has Gretchen committed her last double cross? For now, yes. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe's season-and-a-half Prison Break run came to a close this week when the former Company operative took a bullet in the belly and got carted away by EMTs, never to be seen again — this season, at least. TVGuide.com spoke with O'Keefe about her admirably extended stint on the Fox series where, like 24, nobody is ever truly safe.
TVGuide.com: You made it pretty far; 28 episodes is pretty impressive on this show.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: To be a bad guy, yeah.
TVGuide.com: And to be a female.
O'Keefe: That's also true. I'll give myself extra credit for that!
TVGuide.com: Are you happy that they kept Gretchen alive? Do you think it was for a reason?
O'Keefe: Yeah, I do. At the beginning of the year it was touch-and-go. There even was an article about how ...
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Prison Break
This Monday at 8 pm/ET, when Fox's Prison Break stages its annual midseason finale, the prospects for "Operation Scylla-Snatch" perhaps have never looked so bleak. Having gotten a hold of Michael and blackmailed Linc to do their bidding, the Company saddles Burrows with a most motley crew of accomplices: Gretchen, T-Bag and disgraced federal agent, Don Self.
Can't these assorted archenemies just get along? "I think the Company is asking for trouble," Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (Gretchen) tells TVGuide.com. "Putting these people together ...
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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe by Jesse Grant/ WireImage.com
The WGA strike may have come and gone, but don't assume your favorite TV stars know any more about what the future holds than you do. "They haven’t told me anything," Prison Break baddie Jodi Lyn O’Keefe sighed at a Beverly Hills soiree celebrating designer Paige Adams-Gellar and celebrity trainer Ashley Bordon’s new book, Your Perfect Fit. "I don’t even know if I’m alive or dead!" (Unless "Susan B." is an awful driver, based on the season finale all seems well for her...for now.)Similarly, The Office's Angela Kinsey, who is seven months pregnant, is also completely in the dark about her own on-screen fate. "We go back to work this week," she said. "Maybe I’ll be standing behind a filing cabinet or the copy machine a lot. I don’t know yet. But, with our great writers, nothing would surprise me!" — Dana Meltzer Zepeda
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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Prison Break
Thus far on Fox's Prison Break (Mondays at 8 pm/ET), it would seem that the "B" in Company operative Susan B. Anthony's name stands for "beeyotch." But perhaps there is a method to her meanness? Indeed, TVGuide.com confirmed just that in this Q&A with Jodi Lyn O'Keefe.
TVGuide.com: I was a bit nervous getting ready to talk to you, but Dominic Purcell assured me you're not nearly as fierce as Susan B.Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: No, I'm not at all. I'm actually a pretty big pushover.
TVGuide.com: How familiar were you with Prison Break before joining the series?O'Keefe: I was a huge fan, so it's pretty unnerving to be a cast member now.
TVGuide.com: Especially since this show doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to female characters and love interests.O'Keefe: [Laughs] See, thankfully I'm not a love interest.
TVGuide.com: Yet.
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Dominic Purcell, Prison Break
It was the season many said would never happen. Could never happen. Whereas Season 1 of Fox's Prison Break chronicled brothers Michael and Lincoln's escape from Fox River and Season 2 detailed their run from the law, Season 3 for a while there seemed improbable. But then came last April's shocking season ender, in which Michael was again incarcerated — this time in a hellhole of a Panamanian lockup — and Lincoln, for a switch, was the one on the outside. On the occasion of the Season 2 DVD release and with the show's Sept. 17 return nearing, TVGuide.com grabbed a few minutes with Dominic Purcell to preview Linc's upcoming "spy" mission.
TVGuide.com: So, when we last tuned in, Lincoln was chasing Sara, right? Dominic Purcell: Yeah, he was chasing after Sara — and then
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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
Prison Break has filled two of the four roles it's adding for Season 3. Brunette beauty Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (She's All That) has been cast as an operative for the Company, the conspiracy group that has dogged the boys since the day Steadman was "killed." O'Keefe's character, rumored to possibly be a love interest for Dominic Purcell's long-chaste Linc, is reportedly named Betty Crocker, but that is either a typo or just plain silly.Also joining the cast is Robert Wisdom (The Wire) as Luchero, an incarcerated Panamanian drug lord who calls da shots in Michael's squalid new digs.
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Anne Heche likes Men. More specifically, the ABC pilot Men in Trees, in which she has landed the lead as a woman who moves to Alaska after her husband cheats on her.... Also, per the Hollywood Reporter, Jeff Goldblum is in talks to front NBC's Seeing Red (eccentric cop has the ability to talk to dead crime victims), Queer as Folk's Gale Harold has the lead in Fox's Vanished (a 24-style thriller about the disappearance of a senator's wife), Jodi Lyn O'Keefe has joined Fox's The 12th Man (inspired by NBA bench-rider Paul Shirley), and Bonnie Somerville (NYPD Blue) will star opposite Danny Comden in the comedian's ABC series.
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