Paget Brewster on leaving Criminal Minds and not fucking up Community. Club. Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

The actor: Paget Brewster is an actress who has, to her credit, proven very difficult to pigeonhole, having started out in sitcoms (Love & Money, Andy Richter Controls The Universe) before transitioning into more dramatic material (Huff) and ultimately scoring a long- term gig on a prime- time procedural (Criminal Minds). Although she’s proven adept at both comedy and drama, Brewster has recently been focusing predominantly on the former, and now that the first season of Another Period has concluded, she’s moving on to her latest full- time endeavor: playing against John Stamos in the new Fox comedy Grandfathered. Grandfathered (2. Sara”Paget Brewster: I was shooting Community and it was pilot season, so my agents had sent a couple of scripts, and I didn’t really like anything. And lucky for me, I’ve been around a long time and I’ve saved my money, so I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do. And I hope that that doesn’t change, because I’ve been pretty frugal, and I like being able to choose.

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But then I read the script for Grandfathered and thought it was great. I certainly didn’t think I was going to be cast as John Stamos’ ex- girlfriend, because I figured they’d, like, hire a model and pretend she was older, but I went to the audition because I wanted to meet the writer, who I thought was great, and I just thought, “Well, it’d be great to get in front of these people, even though I’ll never get this.” And then the audition went well and they asked me to test for it, and that’s when you sign the seven- year contract: before you audition in front of the studio or a network. I thought, “Well, I’ll sign it. But I’m still not gonna get this.” And then I got it! Danny Chun, the writer, is kind of renowned for being this great prodigy. There are stories about him, like that he had his job on The Simpsons the day he graduated from Harvard. But Chris Koch, I was aware of him because he directed a bunch of Galavant episodes, and he’s great.

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So I’m very lucky: I fell into a part I never thought I would get. The A. V. Club: So when you heard about the premise, did you instantly find yourself doing the math to work out if it was even possible that you could be a grandmother? PB: Oh, it’s absolutely possible. The idea is that Stamos and I were both kitchen workers in the ’9. Sunset Strip and we were in a relationship, but he was totally self- involved and a playboy, so when I got pregnant, I just disappeared on him and didn’t tell him that he had a son. So 2. 6 years later, this guy shows up at Jimmy’s restaurant, where’s he’s this confirmed bachelor, and the guy says, “Hey, I’m your son. And, oh, here’s your daughter, and I need help winning back my baby mama.” It’s a really weird show in the sense that it’s a family comedy but everyone’s single: the restaurant manager, the chef, the restaurant owner, me, my son, his hook- up, and, of course, the baby.

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Strange America (1. The Paget Show (1. AVC: It looks like your first real on- camera appearance was as the host of your very own talk show. PB: Yes, that would be The Paget Show. It was in San Francisco in? We did 6. 5 episodes.

I was bartending, and Ricki Lake had just made a ton of money for Garth Ancier and 2. I think there were 1. There was Tempestt Bledsoe, Carnie Wilson, Mark .

He went on to host Temptation Island. So I was the Westinghouse 2. San Francisco, at the CBS station, KPIX—and you can quote this, because all those people are gone, but they wouldn’t let me report my hours or else they said they would let people go. So I was still bartending on the weekends while my show was airing on TV, because otherwise I couldn’t pay my rent!

I was bartending at a bar called The Slow Club in Portero Hill, and a guy hung out in my bar—because he lived around the corner—and he was a manager. So I said, “Manage me!” And I just kept bugging him to manage me, as I was going to acting school at the Actors’ Lab in San Francisco, and I think I plied him with a lot of martinis and free French fries, but he said, “Okay, I’ll send you on three auditions.” But I didn’t understand that he represented on- air talent like anchor people, correspondents, and journalists. So I went on three auditions to host stuff.. I just made a video of me at the supermarket juggling, I think, and interviewing people in the street, because I had nothing to lose. I was 2. 4 years old, maybe 2. I was, like, “Well, why not?” And I got a show!

AVC: That’s pretty nuts. And what was Strange America? PB: Strange America was just kind of a sketch comedy show that these two guys. They installed Sun computer systems and made an inordinate amount of money, and they wanted to do a TV show, so that guy Kris hung out at my bar and asked me. He left town to go to a Sun Microsystems conference, and he said, “I’m going to give you my video camera.”For the three or four days he was gone, I did stop- action claymation, and I wrote a sketch where I actually made botulism, which.

It’s actually, like, a serious poison. And then I was terrified because? I don’t remember what I did to get rid of it! AVC: Can I just ask what on earth made you decide to make botulism? That’s not widely recognized as a go- to comedy bit.

PB: I had seen an episode of Quincy about a bunch of people dying after a baseball game, and he discovers they were poisoned with botulism because someone threw old pork chili into a sink and accidentally made botulism, so I figured I could do that with pork chops in a jar of water. I kept it on my fire escape and time- lapse filmed it as it got grosser and grosser. It started bubbling and festering! I think I called poison control to figure out what to do with it. I was terrified they’d hunt me down.

But when Kris came back from his conference, we ended up doing 1. But you can’t find them. And I can’t find The Paget Show on You. Tube anywhere, either, which is probably good, because I looked like Ralph Macchio—I had a flattop—but they dressed me in, like, Cosby sweaters. So it was just a bad look all around. Oh, and lots of rings!

And a San Francisco Giants hat. I mean, I looked ugly. AVC: I feel like I need to put out an open call for anyone who might be able to provide us with some of that footage.

Our readers can be very industrious. PB: Oh, God. I hope you don’t find it! The quest for a clip from The Paget Show goes on, however, so keep your eyes open.—ed. Was that just your standard audition situation?

PB: No! I was terrified! I had moved to Los Angeles and shot one pilot .

And then I auditioned for Kathy at Warner Brothers, and there were, like, three devastatingly beautiful young women in the room—you would know who they were—waiting to go in, so when I went in and Matthew Perry was there. This was my first job in L. Dirty Wars Full Movie Part 1.

A. He was done. Matthew told me later that he and . It was four episodes, and then they made it six. But I had a black bob, and when I got Friends, I started rehearsing that week, and the hair people cut all my hair off and dyed it red—it took six hours of lightening to dye it red—and then when Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane came down to watch the first day, Kevin Bright starts screaming.

You can’t do this!” And as he’s screaming at the hair guy, I just went upstairs, I put my magazines in my bag, and I just sat and waited, like, “I lost my best job I’ve ever gotten.” And then Kevin Bright came in the room and he went, “I didn’t hire you because of your hair! I just can’t have them making changes without them telling me!” It turned out that the next girl that Chandler was going to fall for was Monica, and the hair guy had said, “I needed her to not look so much like Courteney . I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone that story! The Trouble With Normal (2. Claire Garletti” PB: Wait, what was my name?

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