'The Glades' Kiele Sanchez: It's the Perfect Time for Jim and Callie to Start Over
Was Jim and Callie’s beer date on The Glades last week the start of a new beginning?
“Yes, definitely,” Kiele Sanchez, who plays Callie, tells TVGuide.com. “I think it’s the perfect time for them to start over. They were misconnecting and miscommunicating what it is that they really wanted. They weren’t on the same page at all, but now they are and I think you see that this week.”
Surprisingly, Callie — who still has yet to file for divorce from Ray (Clayne Crawford) — seems to be the one who’s the most ready to hit the reset button with Jim (Matt Passmore) on Sunday’s episode (10/9c, A&E) when they hit the swamp after finding a vet’s body parts in a dead boar. As has been the case most of the season, they start bickering yet again about their status. But this fight ends very differently after Callie implies Jim could be the love of her life, as seen in this exclusive clip above.
It’s funny because Clifton [Collins, the creator] and I go back and forth on this. When we talked about it in the past, he was like, ‘Well, Jim’s kinda like a rebound.’ I’m like, ‘What?!’” Sanchez says. “When I read things like [her saying he could be the love of her life], I’m like, “Yes, I won!” I think she’s honest in what she says. It was really hard for her to trust and believe and act on the feelings she was feeling — like this could be the person for me.”
So how did she finally reach this point? With Jim’s ex-girlfriend, Sam (Natalia Cigliuti), back in Chicago, the third wheel is out of the picture — Ray being in Witness Protection, notwithstanding. “His old girlfriend came into town! For me, I was like, ‘That’s not cool!’” Sanchez says. “It was hurtful, but I think Callie had to realize that she was dragging her feet for some reason with Ray, so she had a hand in making space for Sam to come back and fill that for Jim. Instead of just being upset or hurt, she’s seeing her part in it now and is willing to start over.”
But don’t think she’ll be serving Ray with divorce papers just yet. Though Sanchez sympathizes with fans’ impatience over the dithering, the actress understands Callie’s hesitation in breaking the news to her son, Jeff (Uriah Shelton), whom she thinks just views Jim as a friend of the family.
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“There’s a lot of guilt I think mothers in that situation feel. In taking care of myself, am I really taking care of my family when it seems like my family wants to be together and I’m the only one saying it won’t work? Even though she’s justified in that Ray was not a great husband and father,” Sanchez says. “And Jeff loves his dad. He doesn’t even put two and two together that there could be something romantic between his mom and Jim! … I think a lot of boys in that situation get a little Oedipal. They get protective of the mom. I don’t know what’s going to happen when he realizes.”
Sanchez, 33, is equally in the dark when it comes to Jim and Callie’s long-term future. The show shot two different endings for the season finale, which airs in two weeks. In it, Callie is forced to make a decision that could determine whether she and Jim stay together or not.
“The choice is in moving into the next chapter of her life — is that with Jim or is that in a different direction?” Sanchez says. “I definitely have my preference — I’m hoping for the happy ending — but it’s Clifton’s world and we’re just living in it! I bet I can probably find out before , but I probably will watch and find out like everyone else. Share
by Joyce Eng
‘Beyond Scared Straight’, Second Season August 18th
Beyond Scared Straight
‘Beyond Scared Straight’ will return for its second season August 18th at 10pm ET/PT.
Academy Award winning producer, Arnold Shapiro, spotlights prison and jail deterrence programs aimed at helping troubled teens in this series inspired by his 1979 “Sacred Straight” documentary.
The series premiere was the most-watched in network history. Each one hour episode features a different “behind bars” program existing in the US. Four teens are followed as they attend the program from their day behind bars, immediately after, and one month later to see what lasting impact the experience has had on their lives.
A combination of confrontation, information, and communication is used in these youthful offenders programs in an effort to show these boys and girls the consequences of bad choices and criminal behavior. The teens come from all ethnicities and range in age from 11 -18.
In a special 90 minute premiere on Thursday, August 18 at 10pm a group of defiant teens are followed as they visit the Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte, NC. There they go head to head with terrifying inmates and an even tougher female jail deputy. Share
By Kristen Nuzzi, The Glades Examiner
THE GLADES, Iron Pipeline, Premieres August 7, 2011
A popular high school teacher and soccer coach is found shot to death under the bleachers at school. Jeff is especially affected by his coach’s murder. Not only was the victim Jeff’s mentor, he was his security blanket for those awkward times a freshman often faces. Longworth’s investigation leads him to a bullied freshman, but leaves him wondering where a 15-year-old got a gun. Jim and the FDLE track two new suspects, a shady at a flea market and a sporting goods store owner, ultimately ending in two tense standoffs
THE GLADES stars Kiele Sanchez, Matt Passmore. Iron Pipeline, Premiere Date: August 7, 2011. Share
Update by Kristen Nuzzi, The Glades Examiner
Callie and Jeff arrive at the high school soccer fields. She is dropping him off for what will be his last soccer camp before he starts high school as a freshman the coming school year. Callie walks with Jeff over to the field to give the coach his registration check but the coach is nowhere to be found. Callie tells Jeff that she has to get to work and starts to leave. As she begins walking away she hears the distant shouts of a female student waving and yelling for someone to call 911 from across the field. Callie runs over and finds the coach shot lying on the ground. Jeff and his teammates look on in horror as Callie gives him CPR but it’s already too late, he’s dead.
Jim arrives on the scene and notices immediately that Callie is all shaken up. He asks her what happened and she tells him that she was dropping Jeff off at soccer camp and some runners found the coach shot under the bleachers. She tried to resuscitate him but it didn’t do any good. She tells Jim that she has known the coach since Jeff was just eight years old and that he is pretty upset. The coach had taken him under his wing when his father first went into prison. He observes that in the middle of the day someone must have seen something. Callie tells him that one of the parents mentioned that supposedly a freshman, Shane Wyatt, had brought a gun to school.
THE GLADES, 'Second Skin', July 31, 2011
THE GLADES, ‘Second Skin’, A man found dead in a church lying face down in a box full of poisonous snakes sets Longworth and the FDLE into motion. Who’s the killer–the caterer, the con or someone else entirely? And to make mattes worse, in the middle of the investigation someone is bitten by one of the deadly vipers. You won’t want to miss this new episode of THE GLADES on Sunday at 10/9c. THE GLADES, ‘Second Skin’ Episode: 8, Premiere Date: July 31, 2011 Stars Kiele Sanchez, Matt Passmore. KieleSanchez.com. Share
The Glades – All New, Sunday July 24th (Promo)
An all new episode of THE GLADES airs Sunday night at 10/9c! Things are not what they seem when Jim Longworth and his crew investigate the murder of a doctor.
The Glades stars Kiele Sanchez, Matt Passmore. Share