"Dirty Sexy Money" cast and crew kicked up their heels Monday night in Los Angeles to celebrate putting season one to bed and releasing their first DVD box set.
Peter Krause - 6th Annual Lili Claire Foundation Benefit - The Beverly Hilton Hotel - Beverly Hills, CA, USA © Lee Roth / RothStock / PR Photos
Actress Lucy Liu is the latest cast member to join Donald Sutherland and Peter Krause on the ABC hit series.
Donad Sutherland at the DVD party - The Edison -Photo by Alex Berliner©Berliner Studio/BEImages
Monsters and Critics caught up with her at the recent summertime Television Critics' Association press junket. Liu shared how she came on board. "I told Steve McPhereson (ABC President) that I was a huge fan of 'Dirty Sexy Money' and he connected me to the show producers, and we talked on the phone. They were really excited about it too. So we came up with this idea to work together on the show."
Lui talked about being sexy after turning 40. "Well I can speak about turning 40 after January, but I have to say that I feel great...I know some people in their 20s and it seems like their 60...I think its more about your attitude and how you live your life. So to me it just gets better and better. I look forward to it, you know? I didn't think I was going to get past 20."
Peter Krause talked about his character Nick's journey for the new season.
"Nick is exploring this world where he was a part of the family but he was also the little boy with his face pressed up against the glass, looking into this wealthy family's lives. When we started this show, we all talked about about why Nick does take this job, and there were many reasons. One was the unspoken desire to be close to the only family he has ever known. We never really hit that on the head in the first season. His mother abandons him. His father works for the family. He's estranged from his father later, and yet he wants to find out who killed his father. Now, the logical set of suspects are the Darling family."
Creator Craig Wright, Blair Underwood & Producer Matt Gross - Photo by Alex Berliner©Berliner Studio/BEImages
William Baldwin shared his character Patrick's inspiration.
"I sort of loosely based (Patrick) him on the way Bill Clinton is conflicted. The guy went to Georgetown, and he went to Yale and he went to Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar...he's a brilliant man and incredibly overwhelmingly impressive. When you're in the room one-on-one or when you're with a group or whether you follow his politics or not. He was a masterful politician, and yet the stuff that was going on behind closed doors...I think he sort of got off on the exhilaration of pushing the envelope and walking the razor's edge of throwing everything away, everything he had worked his entire life for. I think that's what going on with Eliot Spitzer, and I think, to an extent that is what's going on with Patrick."
The Edison in downtown Los Angeles was the stage for the night's festivities, as the cast members that included Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald, Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan, Blair Underwood, Laura Margolis and Candis Cayne joined their guests to celebrate the first season DVD release.
ABC Studios "Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete First Season", comes to DVD from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on September 16, 2008.
The debut season of the show that redefined “rich” will be available for the first time ever in a three-disc set with exclusive bonus features including deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes revelations.
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