Krista Allen Talks About The Starter Wife on USA

Actress Who Portrays Nemesis of Debra Messing Gives Interview

Nov 4, 2008

The Starter Wife is a new series on the USA Cable Network that stars Debra Messing as Molly Kagen. Krista Allen, who plays Molly's PTA nemesis talked about the comedy.

Krista Allen, from the cast of The Starter Wife graciously took the time for a telephone interview recently. Krista plays the PTA Mom and nemisis of Molly Kagen (Debra Messing). The USA Network series pokes fun at high powered Hollywood types and their shallow values. Debra Messing stars as the former wife of a Hollywood player who has to start over after he throws her over. Krista Allen portrays Eve, who has a relatively small role as the PTA mom who loves to give Molly, now an outsider, a hard time.

Krista Allen was in good spirits and seemed delighted to give the interview, which was a conducted via conference call. There were no questions about George Clooney.

Krista Allen on Working ith Debra Messing

"Gosh, I love Debra Messing. I've loved her forever. I've always been a big fan of her work and loved The Starter Wife mini-series. When they approached me with this it was a done deal from the beginning. I really wanted to do the role and I really wanted to work with Debra. I like the whole concept of The Starter Wife. I think it's really great. "

"It was such an easy set. It was a really fun place to be, so I'd have to say the chemistry was pretty instant. Debra is wonderful to work with and I had a really good time, so it was really warm and welcoming from the get-go."

Krista Allen's Most Memorable Scene

"There was a scene that I did the day that I was filming; there was a scene where I approach Molly, Debra's character, because she's written these awful things about everybody and her journal has been stolen and all of these deep secrets of everybody in the community and my deep secret, Eve's deep secret, was that I had my two dogs, their ashes, implanted into my breasts to keep them close to my heart forever and ever. That scene and that day was one of the funniest days, because we could barely keep a straight face while we were shooting because it was really funny; trying to keep a straight face and really have that thing where I was talking about, "Have you ever lost a pet, Molly," and holding my boobs. It was really fun. That was probably the most memorable scene for me because it was really fun to do. "

"Well, I'm in four episodes this season. I don't know what's going to happen for next season. I know that we've gotten such great response from the character of Eve, so as an actor I can only hope that it's just going to grow, but the relationship that I have with the cast and the producers over there is really strong and wonderful, so I'm hoping that next season Eve's coming back strong, because she sure is a fun one to play. "

"She's that character, the mom from the PTA club that really nobody really wants to get too close to because they don't really trust her, but for whatever reason she's the queen bee. As far as Eve the character, it's a fun one to play. There's a vulnerable quality to Eve that you really don't get to see, but I think she's probably, at least the way that I was playing her, she's pretty insecure about what she has going on in her life and she kind of uses all of her judgment and places it towards everybody else just to make herself feel better."

"I really love Eve and I really love her character even though she's not the most likeable character because you just want to strangle her, but it's kind of like you love to hate her. It's such a fun thing to do. I'm a mother and I have an 11-year-old son. I've had so many PTA experiences through the years and so I get to draw from all of these different experiences and kind of make that into this character of Eve. I'd have to say Eve is one of my favorite characters that I've been able to play, plus I get to play off of Debra, which is amazing. "

"I think all of us have known women like Eve. I think there's an Eve in all of our lives, which is really fun. I have an 11-year-old son and I have been through years of PTA. The women that I've met through the years, there are certain qualities that you can pull off of those different people and so yes, I definitely know and have known people with those qualities and it's fun. I mean the experience of PTA has definitely helped with the character of Eve."

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