(March 2009) - PCM chatted with Jordana Spiro on a conference call with the press. Spiro is the star of the TBS hit show, My Boys. Check out some of the great Q&A that took place with this entertaining star and be sure to tune into the show!

Q: Have you been able to pull from your own dating experience whether it's Los Angeles or anywhere else in - you know in the show with PJ?

Jordana Spiro: Yes, absolutely, especially - well you know I think all - everything about PJ is very similar to myself, and in fact when I initially read this script one of the things that I loved about it so much and responded to so strongly was the fact that she just felt so close to me, and not only to me but to you know my other girlfriends. And I have three sisters, so my sisters, as well, and you know just the idea that you have this - this woman who's you know not a fashionista, wants a relationship, but not - you know is not man hunting, isn't cloying you know isn't sort of this take on a woman that so many TV shows seem to - seem to put out there. So, I think you know just everything about her was sort of similar to how I felt about myself and to the women around.

Q: Your character and Bobby are going to be going through a lot of changes. What about the other characters? Will they be going through any relationship ups and downs this season, as well?

Jordana Spiro: Yes, in fact everybody sort of undergoes a pretty big - a pretty big change. Kellee Stewart's character Stephanie, she has this chicklit self-help book out there and she turns it into essentially an empire. She's doing seminars, and she's getting recognized and she's - you know she wants her own talk show, and she's trying to sort of you know explode it to the degree that she can and brand herself as - you know as the next Oprah, if she can, and trying to take Chicago by storm.

And then Brendan, Reid Scott's character, he becomes a co-owner of a bar and actually has to work for the first time, and actually has to have a job. And one of my favorite lines of his is that you know at one point, it's like 9:30 in the morning and he asks if Starbucks is open this early. And then Andy (gets) - has a new child, so he's got to deal with the - a whole other level of responsibility. Yes, so those are - those are some of the major story lines that continue through all of these nine episodes.

Q: So, you all have always had some pretty cool guest stars on the show. Are there any that we can look forward to this season?

Jordana Spiro: Well, as a matter of fact, this next week, starting on Monday, we'll have a guest director that I'm pretty excited to work with. Fred Savage is coming to direct one of our episodes, so I - you know I grew up with him, so I'm pretty excited to get to be directed by him.

Q: Do you have a favorite on-set moment from the coming season so far?

Jordana Spiro: Let me think. So far - we - you know it was - it's a moment just cause to me it was really kind of beautiful - was we - you know we're pretending that we're in Chicago, so we're dealing with a lot of snow, and I think it was last Friday we working until like 2 in the morning and everybody was a little bit tired, and then we had to shoot this scene where we'll all out on the street and we had the snow machines on, which I found out was actually soapsuds, so my hair's never been shinier. But we had these snow machines and it was like 2 o'clock in the morning, and I was with all these people that I'd been hanging out with for the past 3 years, and were just having fun, despite the fact that we just put like a 15-hour day, and we were just kind of playing in the fake snow and it - it was just one of those moments where I was like, oh, I really - I really like my job you know.

Q: What do you think PJ likes about Stephanie and Stephanie likes about PJ on the show?

Jordana Spiro: I think that they're both strong and they both have a lot of clarity in their viewpoints, so while their views are different they have a - sort of strength in their vision of what life should be like, and so I think they appreciate and admire that in each other. And you know they're career-oriented women, and you know they're not looking for a guy to come in and take care of things for them, and they're both you know sort of proactive women in searching for solutions, as opposed to sort of dwelling in - you know dwelling in drama.

Q: How much you think PJ has grown up over the course of these few years and how much she's been kind of kept from growing up by all these clowns that she still hangs around with?

Jordana Spiro: You know I think over the past - you know it was always Betsy Thomas, the woman who was the Executive Producer and the creator of this show - it was always her goal to watch PJ become more of a woman, and you know sort of try to (grow out of) this extended adolescence that PJ finds herself in, and I think we see that happening, but I think that happens in a very realistic pace. I think it's not on - you know women now are you know having babies at 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, you know their first children, so I don't think it's unusual for - you know like PJ's 30 right now - to be single and still in you know that extended adolescent period of her life. I don't think that's actually unusual, and to me it's a pretty realistic sign of the times that we're in.

Q: PJ gets to do a lot of funny sort of wacky stuff, but she also spends a lot of time being sort of the straight man to all of her wacky friends. Which of those two aspects of the character do you most enjoy playing?

Jordana Spiro: That's an interesting question. I like being the - I like being the wacky sidekick, so to speak, but I don't think that's my role as PJ. I think that it's important for Betsy Thomas, who created the show, to have PJ be a relatively neurosis-free character, and I think in those neuroses you find that that sort of - you know that sort of clownish sidekick, and I think that's a tried and true formula for television. Every Lucy needs an Ethel you know. So, while I would love to - while I would love to be the sort of the over-the-top clown, it's not my role on this particular show.