Carrie Preston Looks Back on "Person of Interest"

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A year after "Lost", Carrie Preston's husband was cast as one of the stars on this CBS crime drama — and once again there was desire to have Preston join in on the fun, this time in a recurring role playing her husband's on-screen wife.

"It was fascinating to watch Michael work," she says. "He's very concentrated and he likes to keep quiet. I can be a little more social on set, and so I was just chatting with him, and then I realized, 'Oh, that's not my husband. That's Harold Finch.' He had gotten into character and I didn't realize it."




The couple made it even more of a family affair, with their poodle-Maltese mix, Chumley, being written into an episode.

"We were doing a scene outdoors by this lake, and I'm walking the dog, and Michael's character comes over and hands me an ice cream cone, and we walk along the path there," says Preston. "And we were worried because Chumley is a little spoiled and we thought, 'Oh gosh, he's not going to be able to do this.' And we started the scene, and he was hitting his mark, and he would stop, and he'd look up at us, and we thought, 'Oh my God, this dog. He's a star. We've got this incredible show dog.'

And then we realized it was because the ice cream cone was dripping."

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