Proms And Death Threats And Movies, Oh My

Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) talks about Mr. Brooks and her real-life family.

Helgenberger's husband, Alan Rosenberg, is the president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). "He's doing a great job, too," she said on Live with Regis and Kelly. She also mentioned a negative aspect of his position. "Now we have to have security," she said, explaining that her husband had received death threats. However, she doesn't take the threats too seriously. "It's 120,000 actors, don't you think that about 65 percent of them are nuts?" She asked, laughing.

In addition to her husband, Helgenberger talked about her son Hughie. "My son attended his first junior/senior prom, he's growing up," she said. She described him wearing his father's Armani tux and riding in a Hummer limo with a bunch of his classmates. She also mentioned what happened after the prom itself: "Big slumber parties with all of the kids." She told Hughie that he could go since it was taking place at a female classmate's house and her parents were going to be there. "He crawls in about 12:30 the next day," she said, continuing the story. He had a bandana around his neck, which Helgenberger said "was to disguise the fact that he had about six hickies on his neck."

Switching from talk of her real-life family to her movie, Mr. Brooks, Helgenberger said that her character, Emma Brooks, is the most normal member of her on-screen family. "I'm the lightness to his darkness," she said, referring to Emma's husband, the title character (played by Kevin Costner). Helgenberger said that she enjoyed filming the scenes with Costner and William Hurt but that "it was hard to ignore" Hurt, who played Costner's invisible alter ego. She wouldn't reveal the ending of the movie, but she did say that something happened that was "quite startling."

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