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Heche redirects acting career with a stint on 'Nip/Tuck'
By GAIL SHISTER - Knight Ridder Newspapers - November 2, 2005

Anne Heche is cheating on her husband.
"I'm having a passionate affair with FX right now," says Heche, 36, who on Tuesday began a three-episode arc on "Nip/Tuck."
"I love what they do. They're not tied down by anybody else's rules or concepts. They bring in new thinkers to create their own little revolution."
As a North Jersey "Mafia princess" about to enter the witness-protection program, Heche's character gets a new face from "Nip/Tuck's" Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh). The changer and the changed become lovers.
Heche is in Nova Scotia shooting a TV flick, with her hub, cameraman Coley Laffoon, and their 31/2-year-old son, Homer, in tow. Heche, who played Treat Williams' love interest over 10 episodes on the WB's "Everwood" last year, says she wants the stability provided by series TV. ("True," her WB comedy pilot, didn't get picked up for the fall.)
"I love my career, but I've always thought in the back of my head that by the time Homer was 5, I'd like him in kindergarten with a sense of stability and consistency I didn't have in my life.
"I want to be able to match my husband's stay-at-home dad-ness with a lot of stay-at-home mom-ness."
In fact, Heche was headed to Broadway when "Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy first pitched her a part in FX's most popular series. It averages 4.1 million viewers at 10 p.m. Tuesdays. "We ran into each other at a store in Beverly Hills," she recalls. "I was looking for a present for my manager. Ryan was shopping for himself, naturally. We were both in the belt section. He said he was going to write a part for me in the show. I couldn't believe it."
Murphy called again over the summer, and this time, Heche was available. She shot the episodes in August. The door is open for her character to return, FX says, and Heche would be happy to open it.
"Nip/Tuck," in its third season, is "mind-blowingly original" and "an incredible character piece," she says.
The ensemble cast "can take an outrageous, bigger-than-life conceptual masterpiece of thought and idea and turn it into something that feels very normal and accessible."
Heche says her "Nip/Tuck" mob wife "is more in the realm of "The Sopranos" than "Donnie Brasco," the 1997 movie in which she played the wife of Johnny Depp's mob-infiltrating undercover cop. A "Sopranos" fan, Heche says she "steered clear" of imitating Edie Falco's Carmela Soprano or Drea de Matteo's Adriana. "Nobody can play those roles better than they do."
In the story line, Dr. McNamara "falls in love with me while I am still a Mafia princess," Heche says.
After the plastic surgery, "I'm transformed, but I still have the soul of a Mafia princess. My being doesn't really change."

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Heche redirects acting career with a stint on 'Nip/Tuck' By GAIL SHISTER - Knight Ridder Newspapers - November 2, 2005

Heche redirects acting career with a stint on 'Nip/Tuck'
By GAIL SHISTER - Knight Ridder Newspapers - November 2, 2005