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Marg Helgenberger Shares What's Ahead for CSI Character
Catherine Willows is backmost connected the case.
Marg Helgenberger, who played the stoic criminalist for CSI's archetypal 12 seasons betwixt 2000 and 2012, is reprising her relation successful play two of the show's reboot, CSI: Vegas. But Helgenberger shared exclusively with E! News that she didn't want the quality to return for conscionable immoderate aged case.
"I wanted to marque definite I was coming backmost for the close reasons, and the quality was going to beryllium going backmost to the transgression laboratory for each the close reasons," she explained. "It's not astir the money. It's thing that's conscionable benignant of successful her humor that she knows however to do."
Helgenberger revealed that she met with executive producer Jason Tracey to sermon her character's arc, and they yet came up with an thought that would fulfill some of them, with Catherine returning to analyse immoderate "unsavory" characters astir her father's casino, mentoring different pistillate criminalists successful the process.
But the revival wasn't arsenic elemental arsenic an open-and-closed investigation. During this season, Helgenberger shared, idiosyncratic adjacent to Catherine goes missing, and the researcher is the lone idiosyncratic who tin lick it.
"There's an occurrence wherever it's conscionable 1 crime, that Anthony Zuiker, who created CSI, wrote for me, and that was 1 of the hardest episodes I've ever changeable successful my life," she teased. "It was conscionable precise emotional."
Overall, however, Helgenberger said it was casual to gaffe backmost into the relation of Catherine, due to the fact that she has truthful overmuch assurance successful her relation arsenic a criminalist.
"She has truthful overmuch condemnation for what she does, and truthful overmuch passionateness for what she does," the histrion noted. "There isn't clip to interest astir anything—certainly not to interest astir what others think of her."
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Watch Catherine Willows instrumentality to the transgression laboratory erstwhile CSI: Vegas premieres Sept. 29 connected CBS.
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