(May 2009) - In January, PCM's Joe had the opportunity to sit in on a great roundtable interview with actress and star of TNT's 'Saving Grace', Holly Hunter! Pretty big, right? PCM thinks she's awesome!

In May, PCM's Rebekah had the opportunity to sit in on a great roundtable interview with actress and star of TNT's 'Saving Grace', Holly Hunter! Pretty big, right? PCM thinks she's awesome!

Hunter discussed her role on the show, what challenges her as an actress and much more! Read below some of the great Q&A and learn from it! Season 3 of Saving Grace that airs on Tuesday, June 16 at 10/9 Central!

Rebekah: What is it about the role of Grace that continues to challenge you?

Holly Hunter: Well, there are so many. You know I think that the captivating thing for me that really made me want to do this series is I feel that Grace is capable of everything you know. And I think that she - that you know in that if you're capable of everything then you understand something about what it means to be alive.

Because people are capable of greatness and people are capable of murder, and everything in between. You know they cause death and they cause greatness, and they cause - Grace knows that there is something sacred within her, and she also knows that there is a killer inside her. Even though she has never killed, and she knows that there is something sacred in her, even though she is not a religious person. And I think that alone is an incredible world for me personally to - for me as Holly to explore.

Q: Do you think that Grace can love anyone as much as she loves her dog?

Holly Hunter: Oh yes, oh yes. You know we've just never been faced with Grace losing, losing anyone. You know she - but Grace I think, one of the wonderful things about her is that she feels things tremendously. She has incredible ability. She has incredible access to her feelings. Her feelings are alive in her. They're not something that has been subdued or that is deadened. She is an extraordinarily alive human.

Q: Was there an important pivotal moment in your life that compelled you to become an actor that initially turned you on to the career?

Holly Hunter: Yes, I don't know I mean I just you know I started doing high school plays you know I started doing high school plays and I just found a you know a real home. It was something I felt you know it was incredibly familiar to me to be in front of an audience telling a story that was made up. I loved it.

Q: What about your role continues to challenge you?

Holly Hunter: Well, I think you know the humanity, and I know that sounds kind of like a broad answer, but the humanity of the character you know is something that the writers, and Nancy Miller the creator, they just don't - they don't shy away from exploring you know what the shows about. And the show is really about the heart of a woman and everything that that entails. So that has continued to keep me really, really interested.

Q: We know that Christina Ricci is going to be guest starring this season. Is there anyone else you'd like to see come on the show?

Holly Hunter: Well, F. Murray Abraham comes on also later on and he's just fantastic, just fantastic. He comes on as kind of an adversarial angel to Earl and that's a great match.

Q: When you look at broadcast television, outside of "Cold Case," you don't see women taking that kind of strong role and the main role in these procedurals. Procedurals are so popular right now. Do you have any thoughts on that? Why is cable willing to go ahead and do these things and broadcast not so much?

Holly Hunter: Well, I think you know cable really got a big entrée. I mean they got a big yes to anti-heroic characters, with - you know with the success of "The Shield," with Michael Chiklis playing a dirty cop. And then you know with HBOs tremendous success of "The Sopranos," with people really wanting to watch somebody who was you know involved in killing people, with James Gandolfini. And then they realized that hey there's an audience. It's just that the audience is a smaller crab that they were gearing towards.

So you know with network television you know you've got to please a lot of people in order to get your you know 18-million people per week, or your 13, or your 20 million you know however many millions of viewers they need to get. Whereas in cable it's a much smaller crowd and therefore the risk can be increased, so then you have - you have anti-heroic female characters who head up shows, such as "Saving Grace" and Glen Close on "Damages," and this is - you know women are interesting and cable is having that validated for them by the numbers of people who tune in.

Q: In which ways do you consider yourself to be like Grace?

Holly Hunter: In which ways do I consider myself - well you know Grace is all me. I mean Grace is my imagination, my experience you know kind of a combination of it all. It's great to have the life experience that I've had to be able to put into Grace, because I think Grace is so many different ages you know as one woman, and I think we all feel this way in our own lives is - you know sometimes I feel like you know I'm a 13-year-old girl, and sometimes I feel like I'm 50, and so it depends on what situation I'm in, or how tired I am, or how great I feel you know or if I'm - you know oh wow, I'm spending the weekend with my parents you know I feel like I'm 10. You know this is a very common kind of experience that people have and this is something that I get to explore with Grace is that.

Q: So, then maybe let's rephrase, how do you find that you're completely different from her?

Holly Hunter: Well, I think you know that one of the things that I love about Grace is her - you know her impetuousness, which you know as I've gotten older you know and as many people experience being impetuous is something that you have to really kind of think about. Well - and Grace - that means it's not impetuous anymore.

Q: How would you like to see Grace grow as a woman over the course of this season?

Holly Hunter: Well, I'm not sure. You know it's all - this is what's exciting about doing episodic is that you know the destiny of Grace is not just in my hands. I mean it's in the hands of a roomful of writers who are hanging around right this minute talking about like what Grace could do and that's kind of cool.

Q: What would you like to say to everyone who's a fan and a supporter of you and your show?

Holly Hunter: Thank you. I'm grateful. I mean you know what's really cool, is that you know over the course of my career I've done things that I've really believed in, but the fact is that every movie, every television movie, every television series that people - it's a huge collaboration, and so what your hopes are for something and what the reality is can be two different things. And what's so great about "Saving Grace" and about in the show is that there is an audience. There's recognition of it you know. There's identification with it and I'm thankful for that because sometimes you can work really hard on something and it just - like it doesn't rise. You know the soufflé doesn't rise, and in this case it did and I'm truly grateful for that.