( May 2009) - PCM's Rebekah spoke to Kyra about the upcoming season of TNT's The Closer.

Q: Do you find that the longer you play Brenda that the differences between you and the character are eroding or when you go to work are you putting on a Brenda suit?

Kyra Sedgwick: I'm always putting on a Brenda suit definitely. I think we continue to have vast differences between us - the two of us, but I can tell you that as an actor playing a character for this long, it just gets deeper and more multilayered for me as an actor, and I really enjoy that. I really - it's been an inspiring process for me to get deeper and deeper into this character and one that I never would have you know thought would happen if you'd told me you know you are going to play the same character for 5 years and you are going to still find it fascinating, you are going to still find new things about her, I tell you that you are probably crazy.

Q: And for you as an actress going into each successive season, do you find new things about Brenda in terms of her leadership?

Kyra Sedgwick: Yes, I think that she has become more of a maternal figure for everybody and I think that in some ways that was sort of inevitable because she is sort of a loving maternal person in some ways even though I don't know that she'll ever actually have her own children. But the fact that her first marriage will always be to her job, it would make sense than her squad become somewhat of her children. So yes, I think that there is a lot of truth to that.

Q: When you first started this five seasons ago, did you imagine that you could sit so comfortably in the TV - doing TV?

Kyra Sedgwick: No, I mean I think it was such a leap of faith. I think it always is whenever you take on a creative project, but I think this one especially because it was such a long commitment.

It's been a great journey. It's been one of the most, if not the most creatively fulfilling job I've ever had and I love the fact that I get to play someone who's so multi-faceted and also that you know we can flip from you know to being an intense drama to being sort of a slap-sticky type comedy sometimes and the audience goes with us and I love that you know we continue to grow our audience every year, that's something that is incredibly fulfilling for me especially since I have to be away from my family for that time and it is such a huge commitment. So it's been really great.

Q: What are you suppose about that character and about by that show that has resonated so much with audiences that you guys are the number 1 you know cable drama out there.

Kyra Sedgwick: I think it's a little bit of what the -our first question was about and I think it's because we take the job very seriously. I think that we really do emotionally involve people in each specific crime and also in each specific character.

And if you let people in a different kind of way, there’s a lot of accessibility emotionally to these characters and to what they are going through and I also think that it's because it's not a procedural and it's - I mean it is a procedural, but it's very -it's got of lot of character-driven moments and I think that that's really what makes people come back. It's the personal moments, the characters getting to know them, getting to know them from the inside, getting to see their vulnerabilities and their struggles. I think that's really what makes people come back.

Q: You play a strong female character in an all-male office, how have any of your past characters that you played either on TV or other in other movies prepared you for this role?

Kyra Sedgwick: Oh, gosh. I don't know of any that prepared me for this role. I think, gosh, I think growing up with two brothers prepared me for this role. I think that you know I've never played a cop I don't think, not that I can remember offhand and I don't think I've never been in a good old boy kind of network like I am in this movie - I mean like I am in this show. So I don't know.

Q: Your character in The Closer often has trouble balancing her home and work life. Do you ever struggle with this?

Kyra Sedgwick: Oh you know I think that it's always probably a struggle for people that work and also you know have a family life. I just think it's always a struggle to fit everything in, to balance it, to give something to both give as much as you need much attention as each thing needs, I definitely think it's probably hard for everybody. But, yes, it's hard, it's not easy, especially when you're 3,000 miles away.