Why TV Terrifies Debra Messing & Uma Thurman

ELLE: What’s going to happen in the next season?
DM: I don’t know, that’s the brilliance of it. Every week we would be called together as a full cast to read the next week’s script, and every week inevitably I would exclaim in the middle of the reading Coach Outlet Online, “Oh, my God, are you kidding me Coach Outlet Online,” because there would be some revelation that was completely unexpected, and everyone would laugh, and it became like a running joke.  That’s kind of one of the wonderful things about television, the thing that makes television terrifying. It’s something that Uma Thurman and I spoke about because it was the first time she had done television. She was like when you’re in a film, it’s a finite thing, it’s a two-hour story, you know how it ends, and you can craft your character, you have all the information. In television you only have the information that’s been given to you so far, and at any moment your character can become something completely opposite from what you thought it was.  That requires a completely different kind of muscle, and I think it’s exciting.

At last night’s gala celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, we spotted Debra Messing and Will Chase. The real-life couple play estranged lovers on ABC’s new hit show, Smash.  The series, which chronicles the making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe, is packed with A-list stars including Uma Thurman, who made her TV debut this week.  Smash was just picked up for a second season Coach Outlet Online, but Messing’s looking forward to stuffing her few months of free time with adventures and good deeds.