Catherine Bell on Sexy Scenes, President Obama Influence on Army Wives Season 3
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Jun 8, 2009
Catherine Bell is relieved that her "Army Wives" extramarital affair is behind her -- though viewers will certainly be seeing repercussions of her character Denise's indiscretion becoming public knowledge in the third season of the hit Lifetime series, which premiered on Sunday, June 7.
Catherine Bell on Sexy Scenes, Barack Obama Influence on Army Wives Season 3 (Image: WENN)
"There's been so much to play it's been challenging in a great way," says Bell. The adultery storyline has been tough, she admits. "My husband and I just had our 15th wedding anniversary, and I'm a proponent of all the things that make a marriage work -- faithfulness, trust and honesty -- so this was definitely unfamiliar territory."
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Even shooting the sexy scenes gave her pause. "To kiss and be semi-naked with someone else on the set?" she says. "I've been forced to dig in and try to be a better actress."
How does her husband, actor-writer Adam Beason, feel about her doing those love scenes? "He's great. I can't imagine anyone being better about it," she says. "He doesn't have a jealous bone in his body. He'll be like, 'Oh, you had a love scene?' Very casual. If the situation was reversed, I would be interrogating him: 'You touched her where? Did you like it?' All those things," she admits with a laugh.
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Bell doesn't foresee the changes in military policy under President Obama -- topped by his planned withdrawal of troops from Iraq -- affecting the series' stories much. She notes, "Our show has always really been about the families. That doesn't change. There are still those issues of families parting, marriages breaking apart and getting back together, of adjustments having to be made, whether the husbands and wives are going to Iraq or Afghanistan."
Denise now will be seen facing the fact "everyone thinks she was a terrible person. There are going to be a lot of scenes with Frank this season," Bell notes, speaking of her series spouse, Maj. Frank Sherwood, played by Terry Serpico. "We're having to face the reality of what this [affair] has done to us."
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