PLUS: The actress talks bringing her Good Wife/Good Fight character back to the small screen in Elsbeth on CBS
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00:00 >> Now it's the sit down 5 questions for Kerry Preston hi
00:03 Kerry else but has the only is back I I'm else that has the
00:08 only thing you can.
00:10 >> The thinking that the outside observer.
00:13 >> We love you on the good life and the good fight so we're
00:16 pumped for else but to get her own show so what was it like
00:19 playing her again is it kind of like riding a bike.
00:21 >> That's a good way to put it actually. Yes, it is because it
00:27 had been a minute since I played her last on the good
00:31 fight. And now I'm not in a few scenes, I'm in pretty much all
00:39 the scenes and so that is the change of pace also I've moved
00:44 from the legal world into the world of the police and I've
00:50 moved from Chicago to New York. So there's many new things
00:54 that the character when I say I mean else but with that the
00:59 character is experiencing that she has an experience before so
01:03 that is is really fun.
01:05 >> I know you can't tease too much but blink twice if we can
01:09 expect any goodbyes good fight cameos this season.
01:12 >> I think it's because they we really want this to to be a new
01:22 show.
01:23 Because it is it's a it's a different genre, it's a police
01:28 procedural really where this comedic characters plop down in
01:32 the middle of the black writing and gray sort of police
01:35 procedural. There's a circus in the middle and that's else
01:39 best so you know I I think they want to make sure that writers
01:44 and everybody want to make sure that we really establish that
01:48 as its own universe.
01:50 >> Okay, okay, that's understandable but from the
01:53 good wife good fight multiverse who would you want to drop by.
01:56 >> Well, you know else Beth was pretty worshipful of Diane
02:02 Christine's character and Alicia Julianna's character so
02:06 it would be wonderful if
02:08 either one of those characters came back just because we could
02:12 see else Beth and girling all over them just like the rest of
02:15 us.
02:16 >> You have a lot to celebrate right now congratulations on
02:19 the holdovers one of my favorite movies of the year.
02:22 >> You're going to get me fired.
02:24 >> This is your room, a cop do not cross.
02:27 >> So tell me everything what was the vibe like on set acting
02:34 with those 3 with Dave I'm Paul and Dominic I mean they were
02:39 just so lovely Paul Paul's got to be the one of the best
02:42 actors have ever worked with in my life, I mean the writing of
02:45 my script was
02:47 Christine and they rose to it and beyond you know, and so
02:53 when Alexander Payne really created a nostalgia with that
02:57 film and they all 3 of them even the kid, you know they
03:01 really got it, you know they really understood what that
03:04 what was being asked of them
03:06 in that and so whenever any of the rest of us would come in we
03:11 felt like we were just you know dovetailing right into what
03:14 they had already started.
03:16 >> This film has won over a 100 awards this season which is so
03:19 crazy, but so well deserved you're no stranger to award
03:23 shows but how does this award season feel different.
03:26 >> Let me just tell you a little bit something that I
03:28 didn't realize because I've never been in an Academy Award
03:31 nominated film people watch it.
03:33 I've been in so many films that I'm so proud of that I have a
03:38 smaller audience so it's been so wonderful people have been
03:42 reaching out to me that I haven't talked to in 2030 years
03:47 40 years, you know people reaching out I saw this this
03:50 movie and it's really had a nerve and it's been so lovely
03:54 and surprising are you going to the Oscars. I'm working and
03:58 happily working. We're shooting shooting shooting trying to get
04:03 this first season done.
04:04 >> You've been in the entertainment industry for a
04:06 long time if you have to give advice to someone starting out
04:09 with dreams of working in the biz what would it be.
04:12 >> Don't give your power to other people.
04:15 Use your power to create your own work. Don't wait for
04:20 somebody to tell you you can do what you love go figure out how
04:25 to do it and then the paid work will come to you finally we're
04:29 going to put 10 seconds on the clock and plug any of your
04:32 projects ready go.
04:34 >> Okay make sure you watch L that Thursday's 10PM CBS also
04:38 streaming on paramount plus don't miss it.
04:42 >> Carrie thank you so much for being here. Thank you it was
04:45 so fun to talk to you.