The Closer: See Beau Bridges Like Never Before!

Beau Bridges, who once played a man who decides to have a sex change in the final moments of the Jane Anderson play Looking for Normal, now gets to portray a character who's already made that decision.On The Closer (Monday at 9/8c on TNT) the veteran actor plays retired Detective George Andrews, the former partner of Detective Provenza (G.W. Bailey). When an old case of theirs is re-opened, George returns to L.A. to help close the case a second time.Only now, he's a woman named Georgette.Exclusive: Beau Bridges to guest-star on The Closer."I had spent a lot of time looking into the whole subject and meeting people who had gone down that path, and I really ended up having a lot of respect for those folks," Bridges tells us. "It's a real tough journey and it involves a lot of courage. [It's] not an easy path in the world today, so to get in to those type of high heels again was interesting to me."Although secries creator James Duff promises the episode is one of The Closer's lighter hours, Bridges says it treats the subject matter with respect. "I told them right away I didn't want to make a lot of silly jokes about a situation that I felt was a serious one for people," Bridges said. "I liked the fact that there was humor in the piece, but it came more out of the relationship between these two people who had known each other for so long and had to deal with the difference in coming back into each other's lives."

Date：2009-12-15　【Return】