Parts of [Samantha] are with me. I played her, and I loved her. I felt ultimately protective of her.I’ve played so many different kinds of characters, you think — why that character?
Why then? It was a time coming out of AIDS and making sex positive again. There were so many parallels of me growing as an actor and that character.
I would never want to look back on that with anything other than pride. That I did that, that it existed. I don’t know how I did it sometimes, because it was really scary.
Especially when I started dating. My husband and I broke up [in 2004]. That was really different for me.I felt like it was a show about single women.