CBS‘ Elsbeth is coming up with a new season and will be introducing the newest cast member, Michael Emerson (Lost, Evil), who will be the enemy of the main lead, Elsbeth, portrayed by Carrie Preston (True Blood, The Good Wife), as the duo, in real life, has been interviewed exclusively by the news outlet, Deadline reports.
According to Deadline, in the season two episode named “One Angry Woman,” Judge Milton Crawford, played by Emerson, will meet Elsbeth, played by Preston, in the courtroom while serving jury duty, as she currently works as consultant for the NYPD. Needless to say, the duo doesn’t get along at all. This murder trial puts Elsbeth in a position where she has to unleash her lawyer-self, as she gives Judge Crawford a really hard time. Furthermore, the news outlet exclusively has the newest photos from the upcoming season available here.
In an interview with Deadline, as stated beforehand, the duo, married in real life for over three decades, explain what this season will mean for the two characters and what acting together throughout the years has meant for them.
“He’s haughty and ambitious. He’s kind of an Ivy League, blue-blood,” Emerson explained when asked about what his guest star role brings to the series via Deadline. “He’s a person who thinks highly of himself, and he appears to crave higher office, and he’ll do just about anything to make that happen.”
According to Deadline, when Preston and Emerson were asked about how it was seeing the dynamic between their two characters play out, the husband and wife duo shared hilarious insights about how the two characters will go one against another in the upcoming episode.
“It is fun. I have to say that it’s a little more after work because part of me is having to set aside the fact that I know Carrie and that I actually got out of bed that very morning with her,” Emerson explained via Deadline. “So I have to erase that and that takes some mental power. I have to pretend that she’s someone I don’t know but in fact, it’s a character named Elsbeth Tascioni.”
“The fun thing about working with Michael is that, we’ve been together for 30 years. We’ve been married 26, so we have this ease with each other. We didn’t even talk about the scenes at home and we didn’t work on them together,” Preston added via Deadline. “We did the minimum, we just ran the lines for words in the van on the way to work to make sure we knew the lines. And then we just showed up and were able to put each other’s performances in the other’s hands.”
If anyone is interested in reading the entire interview, it’s available on Deadline.
Elsbeth is now streaming on CBS.