THE CLOSER - BOSTON HERALD: Sedgwick closes in on end of ‘Closer’
By Amy Amatangelo
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Kyra Sedgwick took a year to decide that it was time to leave “The Closer.”
“It was a really agonizing decision,” Sedgwick told the Herald in a recent telephone interview. Last year, the actress won an Emmy for her portrayal of Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. The series remains one of cable’s top-rated shows.
“I just felt like, as an actor, I really wanted to do other things creatively, and I just felt like, ‘Let’s leave when everybody still wants us around,’ ” she said. “And I have been away from my family for six months out of every year for the last seven years. That’s a lot, and you miss a lot of things.”
Kyra Sedgwick and Jon Tenney
"The Closer” begins its seventh and final season tomorrow at 9 p.m. on TNT. Ten episodes air this summer, five in the winter and the six final ones next summer. Though Sedgwick doesn’t know how the series will end, the premiere kicks off a story that finds Brenda at the center of an internal investigation.
“This whole season is really about her come-uppance,” she said. “All the years in which she’s elicited confessions in a morally, legally ambiguous way comes back to kick her in the butt this year. She really comes up against the politics of the system. I don’t want her to leave on a bad note, but it needs to be something really compelling for her to think, ‘It’s time. I have to go.’ And we are leading up to that...”
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