Canadian TV Guide did an interview with Anna recently:
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Anna Belknap is pregnant - very pregnant. She's due in the new year, which means that the people behind CSI: NY have to decide if they will write her bulbousness into character Lindsay Monroe's storylines or have her exit the series, temporarily, for other reasons. We chatted with the cheerful mom-to-be over the phone from Los Angeles.
TV Guide: Hey Anna, thanks for calling.
Anna Belknap: No problem. Hey, is this a Canadian number?
TVG: Yeah, it is. I'm in Toronto.
AB: Oh, Toronto!
TVG: You've been here before?
AB: No, but my good friend from college lives there right now.
TVG: You should come up, we have some snow.
AB: Ohhhhhh, snow.....
TVG: You're from Maine, so you know all about the snow. Are you going to Maine for the holidays?
AB: No, I can't travel anymore because I'm pregnant. I love Christmas in Maine and I'm going to miss it this year. We'll do it in L.A. We'll get a prop guy to make us some fake snow!
TVG: Is your pregnancy being written into the show?
AB: No.
TVG: So, Lindsay will just be gone for several episodes?
AB: Yes.
TVG: How has your pregnancy affected the shooting of CSI: NY?
AB: They've been taking it easy on me, so that's been good. It's been going really well though, it's been busy because there haven't been any reruns airing.
TVG: That's a good thing, having no repeats...
AB: I think so. As a viewer, I don't want to see a lot of repeats, you want to keep the ball rolling.
TVG: What do you watch on TV?
AB: I watch weird shows! Lately I've been addicted to A Baby Story. We have TiVo, so I'll come home and there will be five episodes on there for me to watch.
TVG: Were you freaked out at all when you joined the cast after Vanessa Ferlito had left?
AB: Everybody was great, but still, yeah, I was a little freaked out. I've watched TV shows where a new person starts and you think "Huh? Where'd this person come from?" and you're asking for the audience to accept them so quickly. I think that's always a difficult thing. But the cast and crew were both great, and I realized that I had put all of that pressure on myself really.
TVG: But I guess it's good to come on board a show that's doing well, and is popular. You've been on other series that didn't last, like The Handler and Medical Investigation...
AB: It does make things easier. On a new show, you're doing it, and everything is hunky-dory, and then the first episode airs, and things get tense. Then the second episode airs, and everyone starts getting a little crazy, because if the ratings aren't steadily improving...
TVG: There may not be an Episode 3!
AB: Yeah, so everything on CSI: NY is very calm.
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