Maggie Lawson Looks Back on "Psych"

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“I mean, where do I start with the memories…? Now I am going to cry,” Maggie Lawson responded when cued to reflect on the USA Network dramedy that has thus far run for eight seasons and two movies.

“I came on after the pilot — Anne Dudek did the pilot, and I think she got on Mad Men after, so she’s fine,” Lawson laughs. “But yeah, I had heard of James Roday, I had heard he was very funny. And then of course Dule Hill, I was like, ‘Holy s–t.’ But when I went from seeing what was on the page to seeing what Roday and Dule were doing off the page, I was like, ‘Ohhh, this is magic. We’re on something magical right now.'”

“My very first day on set, Tim [Omundson] and I happened to have the first scene, first take, everything. I had just shaken his hand and we were about to go in and play, and I remember he looked at me and said, ‘Maggie, are you going to act the s–t out of it?’ I said, ‘Oh, yeah. You bet. Are you going to act the s–t out of it?’ He was like, ‘Yeah!’ And we were off and running. He still texts me to this day to say, ‘Are you going to act the s–t out of it?’ And I do the same for him.”




Lawson believes “everyone will be very happy” with the second movie, which will land on the new Peacock streaming service as early as this spring. As suggested by the title, the follow-up more meaningfully involves Timothy Omundson, who was sidelined by a stroke the first go-round. “I’m so happy for everyone to see Tim,” she says. “It was a very emotional experience for all of us, every single day at work.”

As for how things are going for Shawn and Juliet, Lawson smiles, “I love that our characters at this point are settled into married life. It was ‘Will they, won’t they?’ and then it was ‘Why aren’t they married?’ and now they’re married and just chilling. So many people have asked me about Sean and Juliet, and I’m like, ‘You’re going to see we’re just a normal married couple!'”

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