It's like in "24," I said to the producers, "Martha's getting a little preachy, I think she was more fun when she was off her meds. Can we get her off her meds again?" "Yeah, we agree, OK."
Do you have a favorite episode from the first two seasons of "Samantha Who?"
The first one that comes to mind is the one where Dena [Melissa McCarthy] and I get drunk and do makeovers ["The Girlfriend"] -- I think that's the one I submitted to the Emmys last year. That was fun. Also because it had some very touching things in it.
You got to see Regina reveal things about herself that you could tell she wouldn't normally, maybe not even to her own daughter. And then waking up -- the way it was directed, it was like Dena and I were waking up from some horrible one-night stand or something.
And then Samantha comes home and it's one of the first times that Regina really just comforts her daughter, because [on-again-off-again beau] Todd had chosen someone else. It just sort of had everything.
Did your "Designing Women" castmates really call you "the actress" (as Delta Burke has said)? How did that make you feel?
[rolls her eyes] Yes . . . It was very flattering, but it was mostly because I could cry at the drop of a hat. So whenever Linda [Bloodworth-Thomason] needed a scene where somebody cried, she'd write it for me.
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