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BREE ON BESS

Bree on the Character of Bess

(on Bess emerging after the death of Tess's baby, Chloe) "She's like Viki's Jean Randolph character. She takes control of sitautions. When Tess reawakens, she's Bess, and Bess just wraps up the baby and says, 'Okay, now we have to deal with this,' because neither Tess nor Jess is going to be able to." (SOD 11/18/08)

"She's emotionless and just fixes things. She gets things done." (SOW 11/25/08)

"It's been a lot of work! Every day since Bess has come out, I've played all three characters every time I go to work! Mark Lawson (Brody) said I was doing the acting Olympics the other day, because it was Jess, Tess, Bess, Jess, Tess, Bess, all in the same scene! But it's fun." (SID 12/1/08)

"She's kind of a little bit what Viki's personality, Jean Randolph, is. She's very pragmatic with no emotion; she's the fixer of everything." (SID 12/1/08)

"I had one day when I had 110 pages of all three personalities. At one point, we were in Jessica's subconscious mind, and it was Bess, Jessica and Bess and Tess -- if that makes sense." (SOW 12/9/08)

"It's lots of work, but it's good; it's exciting. Trevor St. John [Todd] was like, 'Are they going to have you play Todd next week?' It was kinda cute, but I was like, 'No. Just these ones.' I thought it was funny. But I'm happy to have a storyline that's this interesting." (SOD 12/16/08)