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Former <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</I> star <font color=yellow>William Petersen</font> (Gil Grissom) gets more anxious doing theater than television, and he isn't in it for the money.<p>Petersen is in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois to perform in <I>Blackbird</I> at the Victory Gardens Theater. Acting on stage is "much more anxiety-ridden" for Petersen than his previous work on the crime drama. "In <I>CSI</I>, you come in, you find a dead body, you don't have to get to know the person. In this, it's a live body, and it's right in the room," the actor explained to <A class="link" HREF="http://chicago.timeout.com/chicago">Time Out Chicago</a>. "I have anxiety every day we work on it."<p>The actor said he misses "all the people" he left behind when he exited <I>CSI</I> this past season. "To have a cast together for that long—and for everybody to get along? Sometimes it's hard to make it through a two-month run of a play with the same people," he revealed. One thing he does not miss is the money he made doing the series. "No, I don't miss the salary," he said.<p>"Yeah, they were paying me a lot of money," Petersen explained. "You can't take care of my dogs with what you make in the theater. But I never got into theater or movies for money. It was nice they paid you and then it was very nice they paid you a lot. But that brings a whole other set of headaches to a person's life—money." He contined, "People look at you differently. The responsibilities are great: foundations, charity, how do we take care of our family, is this too much, not enough. You don't change necessarily, but all those around you change towards you."<p>The original interview is from <A class="link" HREF="http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/theater/75993/william-petersen-in-blackbird-interview">Time Out Chicago</a>.<center></center>