After filming the first episode of the new season of
Private Practice, co-star
KaDee Strickland is giving viewers her diagnosis: “It is action, honey. Get ready, because it is not a game!”
Strickland, who plays the ABC medical drama’s hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside Dr. Charlotte King, says the cast just wrapped production on the season debut, which picks up from last season’s tense finale which left a conflicted Addison (
Kate Walsh) on the verge of an affair with the married Noah and a pregnant, paralyzed Violet (
Amy Brenneman) in the clutches of a psychotic patient planning to abduct her unborn baby.
“I don’t think anybody’s gonna get up to grab a beer during the show,” Strickland told
TVGuidemagazine.com. “The stakes that ended the last season were so high, and the resolve and the payoff is worth every penny… I love what they’ve done with Kate in this episode. I love what they’ve done with everybody that’s in this episode.”
Strickland also thinks her own character will be more prominent. “[The writers] are really good at fusing light and shade. They never let her get too kind, so we’ll see if they do that. I mean, she is an evolving little flower now.”
Although she’s determined to stay tight-lipped on details about the third season’s direction, “We’ll be more in the personal lives of the main characters,” she revealed. “You get to really know more of who these people really are, as well as having great exciting cases that are very important, about health care and things like that which are important to us Americans.”