THE DEADBOLT: I hear you and Bruce [Campbell] will be drinking together in the second season. Is that true?

GLESS: [laughs] Well, I hope so. When he had to baby-sit me last year, I thought it would be so funny. I mentioned it to Matt and I think he’s going to - we haven’t done it yet, but I feel it coming. I just thought it’d be fun, just to sit there and get trashed with him and talk about something that has nothing to do with the case, nothing to do with the show, just two people opening up.

THE DEADBOLT: Is it true you're trying to get Tyne Daly on the show to play your sister?

GLESS: Yeah. Matt loves the idea. He didn’t like that I suggest she play my sister. Also, it changed when Michael can’t even come in the house anymore. But Tyne wanted to do it as a mute and Matt said no. He said, "I’m not getting Tyne Daly on the show and have her not speak." So I don’t know what he’s going to do, but he did express an interest in it and I think Tyne would be interested. But I trust Matt implicitly and he can come up with much more interesting stuff than I ever could.

THE DEADBOLT: What’s it like to smoke all day at work?

GLESS: I love it. My husband says, "How happy are you, they’re paying you to smoke?" It’s fine. Sometimes it catches my throat, but it’s fine. I mean, I really do it, because you see she really is a smoker, and because you see actors who take it in and blow it out and you go, "Oh, please."

THE DEADBOLT: After doing so many takes in the car with Jeffery in your very first scene together, was it hard to bond as mother and son?

GLESS: No. Literally, I came in, I had two scenes and I thought I was going to shoot them both in one day and they spread it out to two. But no, we literally said, "Hi. How are you?" We didn’t have time to bond. They threw us together, we got in that car, and did this chase scene . But he’s very spontaneous, Jeffery is, and especially doing a chase scene. The director would say, "Turn this corner and say this line," which was five lines away from the last one I just did. You know, there was not a lot of rehearsal for Jeffery and my first scene. He’s just wonderfully spontaneous and we just did it. I walked away from that scene saying, "What happened?"

THE DEADBOLT: On a different note, between the time you signed on to Queer as Folk to when it ended, how did playing Debbie change you as an actress?

GLESS: Well, I hope that I grow with every role that I play. I mean, that’s always your hope. I love the luxury of longevity in a series and the fact that I was lucky enough to be in a hit, which Queer As Folk became. You're just looser, more comfortable, more inventive, braver, the longer you go. That just comes with having the chance to develop with her, the same thing happened with Christine Cagney. The longer you play them the richer they become.

THE DEADBOLT: Story wise, what are you looking forward to most this season with Madeline?

GLESS: They’ve written a storyline, but apparently I’m not allowed to discuss it. They’ve written a storyline between Madeline and Michael that’s going to be very interesting of her attempts to repair what has happened with the childhood.

THE DEADBOLT: And it backfires?

GLESS: [laughs] Yes, but I think more attempts will be made. It backfires on her.