CC: FROM MARS TO PARADISE ISLAND?
by Matt Webb Mitovich

With the long-awaited next new episode of UPN’s Veronica Mars now just a day away (airing Wednesday at 9 pm/ET), TVGuide.com grabbed a (figurative) hold of Charisma Carpenter, who this season has been appearing as Dick and Beaver’s head-turner of a stepmother, Kendall Casablancas. Here is what the Buffy/Angel alumna had to share about her present in Neptune, her possible future on Paradise Island and the thing she cannot believe she revealed to Playboy.

TVGuide.com: You next appear on Veronica Mars in "The Quick and the Wed," airing March 22. I hear that Kendall makes some sort of offer to Aaron Echolls?
Charisma Carpenter: Yes, I do have a nice offer for Aaron - a piece. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: A what?
Carpenter: A piece.

TVGuide.com: Meaning a gun? Or of a—? Or of the action?
Carpenter: That’s the big question. Maybe a piece of the pie, maybe a piece of me....

TVGuide.com: On the topic of whether Duncan actually ever succumbed to Kendall’s charms, Mars creator Rob Thomas said here at TVGuide.com, "Duncan’s not built that way." Is that ego-deflating for you to hear or - and this is my theory - is Duncan simply built the wrong way?
Carpenter: The latter! [Laughs] I guess Kendall is just not very discerning about to whom she gives her body. But, given some new insights I’ve been given from Rob, apparently everything has a purpose and a meaning. My character’s IQ is about to jump up about 50 points, did he tell you that? Things are about to become very clear.

TVGuide.com: What, has Kendall been putting on some sort of act?
Carpenter: [Coyly] I guess.... Rob likened her to Annette Bening in The Grifters, which as you know is an amazing role. I was like, "Really? That’s goooood!" I just love those people [at Veronica Mars]. They’re awesome.

TVGuide.com: So you’re happy with your role? It’s different enough from Angel’s Cordelia? I know that has been an issue for you, always playing a bitch.
Carpenter: You know what? That used to be an issue, but to be honest, I’m not trying to play the heroine chick anymore. I grew out of that. Now it’s just about having fun.

TVGuide.com: After all, let’s be frank - God didn’t really design you to play the nice girl.
Carpenter: Not on television, anyway.

TVGuide.com: Has Kendall had her fun and is she now all done with Logan?
Carpenter: I don’t know.... She’s not very nice and Logan is the bad boy. Duncan was the sweet-as-pie boy.

TVGuide.com: Who would Charisma pick? What type do you gravitate toward?
Carpenter: [Sighs] Well, in high school it was the a—hole, and then as I got older I knew how to pick them better.

TVGuide.com: Your son, Donovan, is about to turn 3. What sort of "tricks" is he doing these days?
Carpenter: His tricks are "kicking the ball," "discovering insects" and talking about the "big giant monkey that’s upstairs, sleeping" - and being careful not to wake him up....

TVGuide.com: I assume the "monkey" is Dad?
Carpenter: [Chuckles] If I said yes, my husband would die because that would give the impression that he is hairy, and he can’t have that. [On a tangent] My husband has decided he wants to take up motocross, which is really pissing me off. I’m like, "What, are you going through a midlife crisis?!"

TVGuide.com: Better motocross than some chirpy 20-year-old.
Carpenter: What?! That didn’t even enter my mind.

TVGuide.com: I know. How could it possibly?
Carpenter: How could it?

TVGuide.com: Hey, are you going to star in Wonder Woman? [Buffy creator Joss Whedon is writing and will direct a big-screen take on the superheroine, to be produced by Joel Silver.] What a great fit that would be.
Carpenter: I know! From your lips to God’s ears... or Joss’... or Joel’s....

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