Sela/Jo Thread #1 "I'm Jo Danville. I didn't do it."

Sela Ward at the CSI:NY Press Conference. She looks so beautiful, it hurts.

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Source: http://sela-ward.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=352
 
That is one thing I love about the character of Jo, the amazing jewerly she is always wearing. Sometimes it is the earrrings or the necklace. I also love the way they sometimes layer jewelry. I want so many of the pieces. They need a you can buy that here for her stuff.
 
Thanks TCB

TIME OUT :: Entertainment

Sela in Stella’s shoes
> Sela Ward is settling in comfortably as the new investigator Jo Danville replacing Melinda Kanakaredes as Stella Bonasera in CSI: New York
BY S. INDRA SATHIABALAN


(left) Ward with Sinise … the two team up in season
7 of CSI: NY.

SELA WARD, 51, has one of those rare combinations of beauty, talent and elegance and she radiates this quality in whatever role she undertakes – whether as the free-spirited Teddy Reed in TV series The Sisters or playing Hugh Laurie’s exasperated ex-girlfriend in Stacy in House.
A former model, Ward landed her first starring role in The Man Who Loved Women (opposite Burt Reynolds) and had numerous guest spots on television and minor roles in films.

Things turned around when she landed the part in The Sisters and won an Emmy for outstanding actress in a drama series in 1994 and later took a CableACE award for her portrayal of a real-life TV reporter in Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.

She later won her second Emmy for playing the role of Lily Brooks Manning, a widow who’s unaware that her dead husband’s brain has been transplanted into a younger man’s body in Once and Again.

Last year, Ward was signed on for the role of the new assistant supervisor, Jo Danville, in CSI: New York, replacing Stella Bonasera (Melinda Kanakaredes) who has left to head the New Orleans crime lab.

Danville had worked for the FBI and has a background in criminal psychology. While working in a crime lab in Washington, she discovers that a respected lab technician has covered up evidence of a mistake he made during a case.

When she brought this to light, she lost support of her co-workers, forcing her to move to New York.

She also has an ex-husband who is a FBI agent, a young son and an adopted child. Danville will be a regular character from Season 7’s premiere onwards.

During a tele-conference interview, Ward revealed that she was never a fan of the CSI franchise or really followed any of the episodes.

"No, I don’t like all the blood and gore," she explained.

So what made her come on board CSI: New York? "I met Gary Sinise during one of the award seasons and I have seen so much of his work. I love him and wanted to work with him very badly. I said to myself that someday I will work with him. So when I received the phone call …

"Of course, I watched a couple of episodes but I fast-forward all the dead body parts. It is very different from what I have done before and that’s why I decided to give it a shot. For me, that’s the way you keep growing, when you challenge yourself and do things you have never done before."

Ward confessed that it took her a couple of episodes to get used to the dead bodies. She just kept telling herself that it is TV and that it is all pretend.

"They do a good job with all the body parts, making them look so real, it’s just extraordinary. I kept telling myself it’s all pretend and I try not to look. I am real happy when that part of the scene is over, " Ward explained.

Her character actually stumbles across a dead body in the first episode itself!

Danville is a complicated character because of her past and more about that will be revealed as the season progresses.

"She has a great sense of humour and is artistic. But you don’t really find out everything about the characters because that is the nature of the show, so you don’t really get to the underbelly of who they are," Ward said.

"I really love who Jo is. She is a strong, smart woman and I love her sense of humour."

Considering that the cast of CSI: New York have been together for six seasons, Ward said they gave her a warm welcome, making her feel at home almost immediately.

"I have to say that this is the nicest, sweetest group of people. I think that’s because a guest star is an integral part of each episode and they are so used to having guests, it made it easier and more seamless for me to fit in."


CSI: NY season 7 will premiere on April 5 at 10pm on AXN Asia (Astro Channel 701).

source: http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=59348 via Adoring Sela
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She later won her second Emmy for playing the role of Lily Brooks Manning, a widow who’s unaware that her dead husband’s brain has been transplanted into a younger man’s body in Once and Again.
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What is that all about? :confused:
 
Sela's interview from The Early Show is available here. She's so adorable, I love her. :adore: I can't wait for this week's episode!
 
I'm going crazy waiting for this episode. Seeing these clips just make me even more impatient.

Loved her paintings. I had no idea she painted and having a love for it myself it makes me smile :).

And of course she looked beautiful.

Thanks for posting :).
 
Thought Sela was amazing in Friday's episode. Her scenes with Ellie had just the right emotions and her scenes with Mac where great too. It was great to delve a bit deeper into Jo's life and know more about her past and family :).
 
TheChaoticBox said:
She later won her second Emmy for playing the role of Lily Brooks Manning, a widow who’s unaware that her dead husband’s brain has been transplanted into a younger man’s body in Once and Again.
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What is that all about? :confused:
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Whoever wrote that summation of Once and Again obviously confused it with a similar "in name only" series that started the same Fall called Now and Again. The "dead husband's brain transplanted into a younger man's body" storyline was of that VERY different series.
 
Wow, that Regis and Kelly interview was awesome! She's so nice! Loved hearing her talk about the orphanage project in Meridian, CSI NY (especially her comments about Gary!) and her life. She looked so cool & pretty too. The longer hair really suits her.
 
Interview: Sela Ward of 'CSI:NY'
Source: http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4761945


You’ve turned down roles in ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘CSI: Miami’ before. Why accept the role on ‘CSI: NY’ now?

It’s just one of those things in life where it’s the right time and right place to have received that phone call. I purposely took a hiatus from working on a TV show so that I could be with my kids. They were at that stage where younger and I wanted to be around them in a hands-on day…

When was it that you took your break?

It was in 2002 when I finished ‘Once & Again’, and I did a couple of movies, and did a year on ‘House’, but I wasn’t ready to sign a contract for multiple years for any TV show during that time period. Cause when you accept those offers, it’s not for a year, it’s a 6-year contract.

Were you a big fan of ‘CSI: NY’ before you joined the show?


Actually, no *laughs*. Even now I have to sit out all the gory stuff, it’s too realistic- they do an amazing job. So I was always afraid to watch these things… All the blood, gore and autopsies, it’s just not my favourite thing.

Did you find replacing such an important series mainstay like Stella Bonasera daunting? How have the fans reacted to it?

Wasn’t difficult for me. It think it’s really hard for fans of the show, you know, when you’re in somebody’s living, every week for years, those characters become part of your life. And when that character leaves the show and somebody else comes on, it’s an adjustment for people, and a hard one. There’s been a lot of positive comments though! And a lot of people who love and miss Stella as well.

Buts there’s been a lot of positive reaction to Jo (Danville, whom Sella), she comes from the FBI and a totally different background, and a different kind of interaction between the characters. She has a great sense of humour and tends to loosen everyone up a bit, especially Mac’s character.

Can you tell us more about her though?

Well, she has a great sense of humour, as I said. She really comes from the FBI world, so the focus for her was more on the psychology of the criminal. She’s very astute when it comes to the profile of the person, and understanding that criminal. And I love all of that personally, so it makes it very interesting for me.

How did you feel when you knew you were going to join ‘CSI: NY’?

I was excited because I had always wanted to work with Gary (Sinise, who plays Mac Taylor) but I was a little concerned about how different this show was from anything I’ve ever done before. Doing something new, unexplored territory for yourself can always be a little nerve wracking and dubious. But after the fourth or fifth show I got my bearings and felt a little stronger, I understood where I was going a little better.

I didn’t get the script until three days before shooting, so I just had to jump in the pool and keep on swimming.

Anything fun and interesting happen on the set of ‘CSI: NY’ so far?

Um, not really. *laughs* You know, it’s funny. I’m always asked that question. It’s work, you know, and you get tickled a lot and can’t stop laughing, especially Lindsey (Anna Belknap, who plays Lindsey Monroe) and I. It was more of during the first week or so I was lost and didn’t know what was happening.

Do you think Jo would end up as a love interest for Mac?

Um, you know, I don’t know that. I may tease that for a long time, I just don’t know that they’d go there right away. It’s more interesting for it to be a question mark, more interesting for people to want them to get together than it is for them to actually get together.

You were almost a Bond girl, but got turned down cause they wanted someone younger. Did that experience shape how you pick characters? Or do you tend to go for strong, independent characters?

I’ve just always been attracted to roles where I’m playing very smart women, and it insults my intelligence not to. I just can’t play unintelligent characters, but really has nothing to do with the Bond role. I was 39 when I was turned down for the Bond role, and the producers told me is “What we want is Sela 10 years ago,” and that smarted. I had just finished that show I was on for six years, and thought I was still pretty hot, so that was a rude awakening. But it really nothing to do with the characters I play. It’s more if the role is more fun to do, and fun to work with the people I’ll work with.
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The first episode of the new season finally landed in Holland. I must say, Jo is no Stella, but she'll do fine. Hopefully CSI: NY will go on as show. I'd like to see her more seasons.
 
Good article. Thanks for posting it.

As for the rest of the season...I have a very bad feeling that we aren't going to be seeing a lot of Jo for the last three episodes. That's a little sad. Hopefully I'm wrong.
 
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