Reblogged from slippingandsliding
Martin Sheen had no idea that Laura Innes had already made a name for herself playing ER’s sassy Dr. Kerry Weaver when she signed on to direct NBC’s White House drama [The West Wing]. “But my wife sure knew who she was, and boy, did I get a beating for that.”
“My wife asked me who was directing, and I said, ‘Some little girl. Hell, she looks about 14 years old, I don’t know her name,’ ” recalls Sheen. “She looked at the call sheets and said, ‘You a******! Laura Innes is directing! She’s the best thing on ER, man. You’d better go back and behave yourself.’ So I did what my wife told me, and I listened to everything [Innes] had to say.”
Innes seems pretty amused by Sheen’s transformation. “So, Martin’s wife is why he was so nice to me?” she asks us. “I guess I’ll have to send her flowers or something.”
-May 3, 2000 TV Guide Online
Laura Innes <3
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