Samaire Armstrong Looks Back on "The Mentalist"

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Besides "Resurrection", is there a role in your career that you look back on particularly fondly?

"The Mentalist" was absolutely a great experience for me for several reasons. It was an interesting time in my career because it had been a few years since ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" had gone off the air, and I wasn't really finding a rhythm in what I was looking for.

Oddly enough, I always feel like I have a shift in my career a lot of times when I change my hair. It was before the colorful hair phase, but I just had this feeling like I really wanted to dye my hair bubble-gum pink. And I was like, 'I just have a feeling, if I do this, I'm going to book something really awesome.'



Reluctantly but thankfully, my team agreed with me, and then I booked this arc on "The Mentalist" as a streetwalker, to put it politely. And this character had such a great arc.

And they were so awesome and such an amazing crew and cast. It really taught me a lot about professionalism and what it means to be good at your job.

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