Interview with Sarah Wayne Callies

HER HEAD REATTACHED, SARAH WAYNE CALLIES RETURNS

When Sarah Wayne Callies left "Prison Break" last year, the writers responded by cutting off her character's head, and putting it in a box. On tomorrow night's Season 4 premiere, Callies' Dr. Sara Tancredi miraculously returns. Guess what? It wasn't her head in the box. No explanation is given as to whose head it is.

NYP: Your character was decapitated. Now you're back, head intact. Were you skeptical about whether this would work?

Sarah Wayne Callies: I've been skeptical about whether this [show] would work from the pilot.

NYP: Is the explanation we're given for your return all there is, or will there be more?

SWC: Nine episodes in, that head...doesn't have any greater significance. As far as I know, that's over.

NYP: Are you happy with the explanation viewers are given, that it was somebody else's head in the box?

SWC: Although I think there's room for humor about [the explanation], it's "Prison Break." The whole show is a fantasy. We do ridiculous things, but if reality were that fascinating, no one would have a television.

NYP: You were pregnant last year, and the show even volunteered to fly to Canada to film [your scenes] at home. Why didn't you continue with the show?

SWC: I don't think there are a lot of women who would want a camera in their face when they're 39 weeks pregnant.

NYP: How did you feel when you found out your character was losing her head?

SWC: I didn't know. I was at my place in Canada. We don't even have a television, and I was a new mom. It just wasn't part of my consciousness.

NYP: Will any other tragedy befall Sara this season?

SWC: I think physically she's in a much safer place, partly because I don't know if the audience would buy her in jeopardy anymore. But many things that feel unsafe in her life are psychologic al. A lot of her head is still in that room in Panama, trying to survive.

NYP: If you had your wish, how would the season end?

SWC: Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) wakes up from napping on his desk, goes downstairs to a coffee shop, and Sara's the [woman] he's never worked up the courage to ask out. – Larry Getlen

(source: New York Post)