Just a few Army Wives spoilers we've come across for this Sunday's all-new episode, "Duplicity." A short list for now, but we'll post more as we learn them.
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We know Season Two of Army Wives is in full swing, but we thought we'd post this great highlight reel Lifetime put together of Season One. Enjoy!
Sally Pressman is one of the beautiful stars of Lifetime's Army Wives. Sally was recently interviewed by BeautyInterviews.com, where she talked about her role as Roxy LeBlanc in Army Wives, as well as her beauty secrets.
Q: Can you tell us about Army Wives and your role as Roxy?
Sally Pressman: Army Wives is a TV show based on a real book by Tanya Biank called Under the Sabers and basically talks about the life on the home front. Army Wives shows the unnatural friendships that occur on the post. Just because everyone is united by the fact that they have family members overseas and they are not sure when they are coming back. Roxy LeBlanc, my character, is a sassy bartender with two kids with two separate guys. She has kind of a lot of unfortunate circumstances in her life. Roxy meets Trevor, who is her husband at the beginning of the show for 17 days, so it is a very new romance. Roxy sacrifices everything and picks everything up to where she is. And basically Season One tracks this very new marriage and these two people who are in love in an almost a fairy tale way.
Q: Was it difficult for you to get into the role of Roxy LeBlanc?
Sally Pressman: She is close to me in a lot of ways. We are both very opinionated but we also have a very good heart, she is a really good person and she really wants to do well for the people she loves.
Q: How do you keep your hair so beautiful?
Sally Pressman: I have got a lot of very thick curly hair and I really keep it healthy by never blow drying it because the heat does so much damage to your hair. I air-dry my hair. I use great shampoo and leave-in conditioner called: Bed Head Curls Rock, it is for curly hair it is very rich and great moisturizing.Continue Reading...
As many fans know, it was the book Under the Sabers by Tanya Biank that became the inspiration for the TV series Army Wives on Lifetime.
It was up to creator Katherine Fugate to adapt it to television.
What makes the series and Army Wives cast unique is how Fugate seamlessly weaves the theme of female empowerment into the show, with such a wonderful, interpersonal spin. She spoke about it in an interview with SheKnows.com ...
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The book is a non-fiction account of the murders at Fort Bragg, about the series of murders that took place in a six-week period, when four husbands came back and killed their wives at Fort Bragg over the summer.
I read that book and I was struck by what happened.
We wanted to create a fictional series and I’m always looking for things that are about female empowerment, sacrifice and the greater good.
I was really moved by the sacrifices that military wives make and I hadn’t really contemplated that before.
America understands and respects our soldiers so much, and there are a lot of shows already out there that take into account the battlefield and the sacrifice, but I don’t think people know just how far that spreads.
Mothers are becoming single mothers for two years at a time, and children are growing up in a culture that they didn’t choose.
Just like Roxy (Sally Pressman) didn’t choose it either. She married, fell in love with a man, and really married a whole tradition.
That really moved me and I thought that is something we hadn’t seen before. I wanted everyone to know that the sacrifice is not just on the soldier.
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Tears were not in short supply on July 1 when two of TV's Army Wives met some of the real-life women they portray on the hit Lifetime series.
Actress Sally Pressman, who plays Roxy LeBlanc, and co=star Brigid Brannagh, who plays Pamela Moran, recently watched an upcoming episode with Army wives and service members at Walter Reed Medical Center outside Washington, D.C.
"It was incredibly emotional," Sally Pressman said.
"The only thing I can say is, it's a night I will never forget and it was life-changing. I'm not going to be the same."
Army Wives' Sally Pressman and Brigid Brannagh meet their real-life counterparts.
Sally Pressman said she learned that night just how much Army Wives means to the women, who often together in large groups.
She said one woman whose husband was killed in battle told her, crying: "The only thing that has made me happy since then is your show."
Brigid Brannagh said she was moved by the upbeat attitude of the wounded service members she met at the U.S. Army medical center.
"One man had shrapnel all over his face and his legs, and they're trying to figure out what kind of use he's going to have in his legs ... they're 19 and they're 20 and they're more positive than I could ever be," she said.
The "Goodbye Girl" is coming to town.
TV Guide reports that four-time Oscar nominee Marsha Mason will guest star on Army Wives, the military drama filmed in Charleston, S.C.
Mason won fame for her role in The Goodbye Girl and other films. She will appear in at least two episodes of Army Wives in mid-August.
On Army Wives, she will appear as Charlotte Meade, the socialite mother of Claudia Joy Holden, played by Kim Delaney.
This reunion could be unpleasant. Earlier this season, Charlotte was not present at the funeral of granddaughter Amanda.
If there's one thing about success in the entertainment business it's this: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That means if something is working on another show, steal or borrow the idea ASAP!
Soap operas are a classic example of this, frequently crafting plots in the mould of Ugly Betty, The Devil Wears Prada, 24 or just about anything else daytime dramas can adapt into a soap opera format.
The latest form of flattery will be on All My Children with the introduction of actress Beth Ehlers as a new character in Pine Valley, Lt. Taylor McBride, a U.S. Army vet who has recently been deployed in Iraq.
The idea comes from - that's right - Army Wives!
At least new All My Children writer Chuck Pratt admits it freely, telling TV Guide that "The story is certainly influenced by the success of Army Wives:
The goal is to present the kind of debate that's going on all over the country in a way that's entertaining and relatable and without taking sides."
Army Wives has certainly raised the bar when it comes to military families and the issues that the soldiers and their spouses confront.
Army Wives' Season One was a "surprise" hit only to those who assumed there was a narrow, limited audience for a nighttime soap opera of sorts about middle-class women enduring Iraq war sacrifices.
Instead, the show has hit home on a number of levels.
It presents familiar faces, like NYPD Blue's Kim Delaney and JAG's Catherine Bell, as newly vulnerable women with cores of strength — role models for Lifetime's demographic and beyond.
And, in a way, the cramped, refreshingly untidy Army base houses of some of these wives serve as a metaphor for the economic hard times of many current civilians in the U.S.A. as well.
But in Season 2, Army Wives is exploring new themes, according to a recent column in Entertainment Weekly.
The show has rolled out a story line about the joys of returning spouses (Sally Pressman's irrepressible Roxy tried orally pleasuring her wounded hubby even before he was discharged from the base hospital).
Another Army Wives subplot concerns the numbing grief felt by Kim Delaney's Claudia Joy over the death of her daughter, who died in Season One's dramatic, bar-explosion cliff-hanger.
Creator-writer Katherine Fugate knows that some clichés persist because they contain truth, even when a character says something like, "Life goes on, as cliché as that sounds."
This is the way people talk, and Army Wives captures these women in anger, despair, and the giddiness that comes from the red wine they all regularly gather to guzzle their troubles away with — momentarily.
Sure, it's melodramatic, but Army Wives (already renewed for Season 3) is pretty addictive.
A mere five weeks into its sophomore season, Army Wives has been enlisted for a third season, Lifetime officially announced last Friday.
"Since premiering in 2007, Army Wives has been a game-changer for Lifetime," president and CEO Andrea Wong said of the drama.
"Announcing this early renewal is a testament to the enormous faith and confidence we have in this show."
This season Army Wives is been #1 with Lifetime's target demo of women 18-49, as well as with women 25-54.
That's #1 among all ad-supported basic cable series. As well as in terms of looks. These are some pretty wives, after all.
