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This Friday, April 27, on Numbers (10 pm/ET, CBS), Peter MacNicol returns as Charlie's chum Larry while Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto guests as a federal attorney in a story dealing with a death-row inmate whose motives for revealing the locations of missing bodies are questioned by Don (Rob Morrow). Holding down the fort in MacNicol's absence (he defected to 24 for much of the year) was Kathy Najimy, who tonight makes her last appearance of the season as Charlie's academic superior, Millie French. TV Guide: Were you good at math? Kathy Najimy: When I was younger I wanted to be a mathematician, but I think that's
This Friday, April 27, on Numbers (10 pm/ET, CBS), Peter MacNicol returns as Charlie's chum Larry while Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto guests as a federal attorney in a story dealing with a death-row inmate whose motives for revealing the locations of missing bodies are questioned by Don (Rob Morrow). Holding down the fort in MacNicol's absence (he defected to 24 for much of the year) was Kathy Najimy, who tonight makes her last appearance of the season as Charlie's academic superior, Millie French.
TV Guide: Were you good at math?
Kathy Najimy: When I was younger I wanted to be a mathematician, but I think that's because I got a good grade on a test once. [Laughs]
TV Guide: Do you think Millie would like to get more involved in the Eppeses' cases?
Najimy: They brought Millie on as the viewers' conscience. Herpurpose is not so much as a nemesis, butas a guidepost for Charlie (David Krumholtz). But I thinkMillie finds the FBI work sexier thanthe math work.
TV Guide: How will Millie's relationship with Alan, the brothers' father [played by Judd Hirsch], progress?
Najimy: Slowly. Don't you thinkthey should kiss sometimesoon? [Laughs] Somethingneeds to happen or Millie'sgoing to move onto one of the brothers.[Laughs]
TV Guide: You've voiced Peggy Hill on King of the Hillfor 11 seasons. How has she changed?
Najimy: I don'tknow if Peggy haschanged that much.The great thing about her is the writers don'twrite characters one-dimensionally. She is wiseone moment and ridiculous the next. She's veryself-righteous. Her confidence box is overflowingand sometimes it's warranted, sometimesit's not. [Laughs]
TV Guide: In the films Sister Act, Hocus Pocus and Soapdish you play offbeat, energetic characters. Do you seek out these roles?
Najimy: At this stage ofthe game, I run the gamut. A lotof times on television they showa very successful woman at workwho goes home and eats pie fillingout of a can with her nine cats! Theyhardly show successful women withbalanced personal lives. That's whatI like about Peggy and Millie,and it's what I insist upon.I look for what the character's life is like and whether that really reflects women, or whether it continues some stereotype that doesn't help us at all.
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