Whats the best part of doing CSI?
It’s a multifold question. I think first and foremost, I love the character I get to play [element analyst Sara Sidle]. I think she’s totally fascinating and much braver than me and smarter than me. She studied physics at Harvard and Berkeley, so I get really excited to go to work and get to be her. I think the writers, who I think are geniuses, have done a really good job of trying to give us, or at least me, different things to do every season. I get to solve the crimes and get to sort of wear the superhero cape, but at the same time I have something in my personal life going on. I’m really lucky that way. It sounds like you can balance work with your own life. I think it takes like a couple of years. We’re in our fifth season now, and it’s so much better in terms of the amount of hours we work, and they try to split it up so nobody gets burned out. You’ll be heavy for a couple of shows, and then you’ll be light for a couple of shows. I think the whole idea for our show in the last c
