CBS Star Visits ER
Once & Again fans remember Marin Hinkle as Sela Ward's little sister, the jealous, moody Judy. Now, she costars as Judith, Jon Cryer's estranged — and possibly gay — wife on Two and a Half Men (Mondays at 9:30 pm/ET on CBS). But if you thought Hinkle played difficult drama queens in those roles, just wait till you see her on tonight's ER!
Basically, her part is every ER day player's dream: The freaked-out mother whose kid's undergoing a medical procedure in the emergency room. That kind of cameo just begs for an actress to run the scenery-chewing gamut, from fear to anger to full-on meltdown. Here's a little preview...
"My character is a mom who's driving with her husband and two kids and gets in a terrible car accident," Hinkle tells TV Guide Online. "I'm in shock, and it turns out that the driver who caused the accident is in the [room] right next to me!" Sounds like your typical wreck-of-the-week plotline, but she promises there is a twist, and it involves a heart ailment and a Hummer SUV. We'll say no more.
Happily for Hinkle, she didn't have to go far to do ER. The hospital drama and Two and a Half Men both shoot on the same Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, Calif. "When I auditioned," she says, "they asked if I minded switching from comic behavior to playing such tragedy in one day. But that's the joy of being an actor! It's fun to look made up and put together for a sitcom, then run over to ER and be a car accident victim, where you're mussed up and have blood poured all over you."
