I Never Felt Cool Growing Up. I

Brad Wright, Who Created Grant Maclaren, Had Me In Mind. We'd Actually Worked Together 20 Years Ago. He Wrote An Episode Of The Outer Limits That I Was In In '96 Or '95? So We'd Been Aware Of Each Other For Years. I'd Lived In Vancouver Off And On, Where He's Based. And It Just Came To Me, And I'm Always Looking For Something Different. Perception Was A Different Show Than Will & Grace.

Back Then, All The Networks Were Still Making A Movie A Week, Virtually. So I Did Five Of Them That Year. So It Was Just A Nonstop... '92 Was A Great, Nonstop Ride In Vancouver.

There Was Not An Episode [on Perception] That Didn't Deal With Some Form Of Mental Illness, Either My Own, Or I Would Be The First To Notice If A Defendant Did A Certain Thing That Perhaps He Was Suffering From This. And So We Got To Do Some Really Outspoken Stuff For What Was Otherwise A Crime-solving Show. And It Was Just A Really Good Team.

Rachael Leigh Cook Was My Leading Lady. She Was Awesome. We Loved The Show [perception ]. Again, It Was More Of A Tnt Show, Because There Were Crimes That Got Solved, Which [going] Back Five Years Ago, Was A Mandate. But There Was Something Innovative About The Mental Illness Side Of It.

I Had Run Into Kari Lizer At An Airport, I Think, And She Said, "would You Come On The Show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I Said, "god. Absolutely."