Teri Hatcher

OF ‘MID-LOVE CRISIS’ ON HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES

What appealed to you most about doing “Mid-love Crisis,” in which you play a woman caught in a love triangle with her ex-husband and her high school boyfriend?

It’s interesting that these characters are trying to find acceptance with aging, and acceptance with their choices. And being in a studio doing (voice) looping and looking at my face on a screen for three hours, it was about accepting that I’m in my 50s, wrinkles and all. I have that insecurity like every other woman, and I think it’s important for every one to come to terms with that for herself. I really started to think, “This isn’t about

looks,” and that’s kind of the point.

You’ve done so much, and in all sorts of genres, do you reflect on your career path very often?

It is a crazy career, when you go back and think about all the little moments ... the “Seinfeld” thing, the James Bond thing (“Tomorrow Never Dies”). It’s fun to review those, but I try to live in the present and not make too much of reminiscing about what I did or who I was before. It’s more fruitful to focus on where you’re at and

what you can do in the moment where you are.

With that said, one of the producers of “Mid-love Crisis” is a big James Bond fan, so much so that he has this giant coffee-table book about the Bond movies. And he brought it in for me to autograph the page about me, which I gladly did. It’s nice to

know that people had joyful times out of those performances.

You’re also about to play Morticia in a staging of “The Addams Family” in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Are you satisfied with your work schedule these days?

I love working on the right things with the right people, and I am in a place where I’m more open to working than I ever was. For decades, as a single mom, I defaulted

to being available to parent as opposed to being available to work.