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Meredith: Did you know what was going to happen with your character?

SC: No, no, I didn't. But somewhere, a couple of episodes along the line, Marc Cherry, our writer, producer, creator, god.

Joy: Great name, Marc Cherry.

SC: Yeah, so he gave me an assignment to come up with a secret for my character, so I knew there was something coming. So I came up with a secret, and the writers came up with a secret. And we immediately nixed gay, because we thought it was too obvious, and we also nixed S&M because we thought THAT was too obvious. And so the writers were spinning out both of our secrets, seeing which one they got the most mileage out of. Marc ultimately decided to go with S&M

Joy: Because it was funnier.

SC: Yeah it is funny. He wanted something we didn't have to explain, something you could just put right out there.

Star: We talked to Marcia Clark...Cross last week in LA and she agreed that men seem to have trouble expressing their sexual fantasies to the wives. Now, I know you're married. Do you find it difficult to express that "clamp on the nipple fantasy"

Meredith: Or would you like to express it now?

Star: I can't believe I just said that

SC: Are you asking about this specific fantasy?

Star: Your fantasies going on inside you head, do you find it easy to express them to your wife?

SC: I have no fantasies. No, they're ALL realities!

Star: And you lay 'em right out on the table.

Joy: But we talked about this, when men do say it, the women turn on you.

SC: I think you have to be really sure of your partner. For one thing, it requires being vulnerable to a certain extent. And what if she thinks you're weird, or what if she doesn't like it, or what if she slaps you in the face?

TBK (The Blonde Kid): Like Bree did, but Bree decided to go along with it.

SC: Yeah, isn't that great?

TBK: So you're in the bedroom and Rex decided to come up with a safety word in case they got too rough.

TBK: He used it with the slut.

SC: Is that so?

TBK: Because it had worked for him in the past. Bree suggested Boise or Palestine. You decided to settle on Boise.

SC: I don't know why Philadelphia, they needed a neutral word that you wouldn't normally say in conversation, so that when things get dicey in the middle of the role play, people will know. If you yell "Stop Stop," that could be part of the game.

Joy: If you yell Palestine, Arafat's ghost shows up. Who yells out Palestine, in the middle of the sex act??

SC: That's why we stuck with Boise, because nobody is going to come up with that in normal conversation.

Star: If you say Philadelphia, I'd come up with cheesesteak

Joy: You wouldn't want to yell out Boise if you were with Michael Jackson

Star: In real life, we know that you are happily married and you're the father of twins. Bree is the perfect doyenne of domesticity. Is your wife anything like that?

SC: Well, it's funny, I never tell Barbara about the scripts in advance, because I always want her to see it fresh. We all were watching the pilot together, and she sees Bree introduced as the gourmet cook, who does her own gardening, upholsters her own chairs, and she said "Wait a minute, I do all that!"

Star: So she's a lot like?

SC: She's a lot like Bree on the domestic front, she just, she can BAKE.

Star: How about the other?

SC: Not on the S&M front, except psychologically!

TBK: Does she wash up the handcuffs?

SC: We don't have handcuffs quite yet. No, she's actually just really brilliant at just about everything. There's one thing she can't do that I can, and that is act, and Thank God! Because she'd show me no mercy.

Meredith: Congratulations on the SAG awards, your show. Wonderful, Well deserved!

SC: Thank you!

Joy: And the West Wing, you're starring on the West Wing.

SC: I've been doing a character that I did last year, and I'm doing another episode airing on the 9th of March.

Joy: You're a busy guy.

SC: Can I say something about the SAG Awards? It was such a thrill, such an honor. It was the first moment where it really clicked in for me that Wow, we really are a hit, aren't we, because I never expected that!

Meredith: You really are a huge hit.

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