Katey Sagal: Happy as the mother on "Sons of Anarchy"

NEW YORK - Second season of the FX drama "Sons of Anarchy" is ready to enter regenerative blood. It is likely to be pretty. The son, a knitting wild and violent Motorcycle Club are determined to create havoc on enemy forces that have cut into their living outside the law in their own country and horns (the curiously named town of Charming, California, cause). If the use continues in the conclusion of the season (Tuesday at 10 clock ET): The club must have taught the ultimate lesson of this band of white separatists at the beginning of the season, the club a message by going to hurt and sent his matriarch Gemma Morrow. Played by Katey Sagal, Gemma Dishy, clever and hard as the wife of club president (Ron Perlman) and mother of his rivals for the throne (Charlie Hunnam). But recoiling in shock and shame of the attack, she showed the audience a vulnerable side unglimpsed before. "This season I have always asked:" Who is at risk? "," Sagal said. "I hope that many people that everyone has different colors. But from week to week, I had to check with:" When I am with this person? "With his high, narrow cheeks ascending Sagal first found fame as Peg Bundy, the big hair, SMART-mouth housewife for 11 seasons in the Fox sitcom" Married … with Children. "For three seasons she played on the ABC comedy" 8 Simple Rules, "by the sudden death of co-star John Ritter was rocked early in his second year. On the way they hung the role of expression of a sexy-eyed mutant Leela on the cartoon series "Futurama" (now forgotten it in production for Comedy Central, where this summer, 26 new episodes of the network reps complement broadcast). But Gemma, Sagal gave life a character that makes the audience that they invented. Gemma came into her life with her husband, Kurt Sutter, the "Sons of Anarchy created" after seven seasons as a writer and executive producer of Landmark FX cop drama "The Shield." He began to research developed at the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, and a kind of mythology of the great world, "Sagal. says: "In the meantime, he said, I have a party for you. I was very excited. But I really did not know what it was. I do not think he knew what it was." Despite the initial lack of details about the show "I knew it was dark and violent, and I have in place for that." Sagal was laughing. "I have many, many, many years a different kind of thing, and I was ready for a change, then" Bring it on! was what I wanted. "But it is not wrong in his opinion, what makes the show something special." I know he is a despicable behavior and gangs and Gu ns and arms. For me, Ma, "Sons of Anarchy" is a family drama, "she said. While the family is a group of outsiders, pariahs who are linked their fate with the club, but they behave compared to May within the group. (From the large ensemble series, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan, Johnny Lewis, Theo Rossi, Ryan Hurst, William Lucking, and Kim Coates playing other club members.) As Gemma, they have no personal problems "is not a lot of personal control. "These people are all with shame, guilt, denial, secrets, Sagal said." They are just sitting and standing, it collects and then they shoot people. They do not go to treatment or do yoga. At the same time, these bats do not, or buffoons, nor is the mother of Gemma motorcycle plate. They are relatable to viewers as members of a club less exclusive nation struggling working class. Business setbacks and, worse, rich for his son. They seem to never. They continue to try to support themselves and their families. They do what they feel they must) (weapons, drugs, pornography and self-do-engineer their business, there are some coverage, remain steadfast. "I think that's what the audience reaction," said Sagal. Day characters' Ness. "No wonder that the public has a robust 3.6 million viewers this season - and third cut in the past year. Now, as expected Sagal, the" sons "finale (she said it is not every episode will be broadcast until they Screening) she intends to fill its distance to give sessions for "Futurama. "More music. Accomplished singer before she started acting, she spent a decade on tour with stars like Bette Midler, Etta James and Bob Dylan. Today, it has a band and performs in the vicinity of Los Angeles." I will always play music, she said, adding with a sly smile, "I do not worry too much, to make a killing." It will also welcome the time to deal with her teenage daughter and son to spend a first marriage and his daughter, nearly 3, with Sutter. And she'll wait and see what cooks Sutter until next year for Gemma. "He has his own space in our house, and he goes down there and make stuff up, then it comes along." Once, she offers a suggestion: Gemma that - who, like most of the family eat a lot of tobacco and pot - a jolt. "I do not smoke these cigarettes fake. They taste horrible," she explains. "He said no." ___ FX is owned by News Corp. ___ On the Net: http://www.fxnetworks.com ___ EDITOR'S NOTE - Frazier Moore is a columnist for the national television for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore (at) ap.org