'RESCUE ME' WIFE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF DENIS LEARY

[Brian Damage]

August 26, 2007 -- IT all comes down to chemistry. That's how Andrea Roth, the beautiful blond 39-year-old actress who plays Janet Gavin on the FX show "Rescue Me," characterizes her often tortured, always mercurial relationship with Denis Leary's character, firefighter Tommy Gavin.

It would be a big understatement to say that Janet and Tommy have been through a lot together.

They've endured the death of a child, a divorce, infidelity, spousal rape, prescription drug addictions, kidnappings, erectile dysfunction, renegade daughters, alcoholism, verbal abuse, and just about everything else that human beings can conceive of doing to each other or themselves. They've screamed, yelled, set stuff on fire, hit each other over the heads with frying pans. In a recent episode, Janet hits Tommy with her car.

And both of them keep coming back for more.


"I think Tommy is a sexy, charismatic, funny partner," says Roth, when The Post spoke to her on the phone.

"He can be a complete pain in the ass, but there is this base attraction. They have this great chemistry, incredible fireworks between them - and somehow, despite everything, they haven't killed that yet."

Life hasn't been good lately for Janet Gavin.

For the last season, she's been lying in the house in a cloud of postpartum depression, disinterested in her newborn baby. Roth says she often films episodes with unwashed hair and on only a few hours of sleep, so that she'll look the part. Janet is still grappling with the death of her lover - Tommy's younger brother - while living with Tommy in a supremely awkward platonic arrangement.


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