See Also: Marcia Cross (Bree Hodge) People Guide

In a lighthearted interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last Friday, Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp) took the time to get some things off of her chest.

"This is so huge to me. I'm so glad I get to talk about it on national television," she said. "I have a huge beef about the fact that they are now showing commercials in movie theatres." After receiving applause from the audience, Cross continued: "I would be in the back ... and I would yell 'no commercials' with no shame. Then I stopped for a little while, and lately I started yelling again because I feel we're paying the money, and it's an art and it's important."

Cross then took aim at TV. "When you're watching TV at home, does anyone notice this, that when a TV show finishes and the commercials come on the volume raises? Exponentially," she said, illiciting more applause. "But what's really more important to me is the fact that these things happen in society—okay, albeit they're small things—and who makes these decisions? Things happen, and we're just sheep."

She also spoke about a more serious annoyance, that of the paparazzi. Ironically though, she seemed to be more resigned to their presence than the ads in theatres. "It's pretty bad. They're everywhere," she said, talking about the photographers who pursue her. "They just seem to pop out of bushes, and take photos when you have no idea. They took a picture of my recycling in front of my house. Wow, that's really interesting ... I think in the last six months it's gotten really, really bad. At first it was just getting started, and revved up, an now it's non-stop. They, you know, park in front of my house and wait for me to leave."

Thank you to the Marcia Fans website which is hosting videos of the interview. In the full interview, Cross also talks her favorite scene in the show so far, and host Leno unveils a clip of Cross in The Edge of Night from 1984, her first job where she played (in her own words) a "nymphomaniac paleontologist".

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