Robin Tunney (Veronica Donovan on Prison Break) recently sat down to chat with Zap2It about the season finale of The Mentalist and her summer plans.

She reveals that she hopes that the show gets picked up for another season. “I think it would be shocking if they didn’t. I’m remodeling my bathroom, so if not, I’m going to be in a huge pickle. Because momma bought a $4,000 bathtub.”

That’s a big bathtub! “I’m just doing some home improvements. I did a huge mistake of renting a palace in Malibu while it’s being done. So whatever they do to my house, it’s not going to be as nice as this one is now. I probably should have gotten a shack in Glendale.”

Robin plans to spend her time off this summer finishing her remodeling project. “It’s funny, my main priority is the show. A smaller part in a movie, I may do that. I just wanted to be sure I haven’t run myself ragged because it’s a demanding schedule. And I want to keep loving my job. I’m lucky to be on a TV show that works because there’s not a lot of movies being made.”

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Robin Tunney is set to star with John Stamos in the Lifetime Original Movie The Two Mr. Kissels! The movie is based on the shocking true story of two multi-millionaire brothers who both married the women of their dreams and wound up dead.  The Two Mr. Kissels premieres on Saturday, November 15, at 9PM (ET/PT) on Lifetime Television.

In The Two Mr. Kissels, real estate mogul Andrew Kissel (Stamos) marries sporty blond ski instructor, Hayley Wolff (Gretchen Egolf), while his younger brother Rob Kissel (Anson Mount), a New York investment banker, marries social climber Nancy Keeshin (Robin Tunney).  On the surface, it seems that both the Kissel brothers are starting idyllic families.  After Rob moves his family to Hong Kong for a promotion, Nancy grows to resent his long work hours.  In retaliation, Nancy begins a torrid affair and ultimately kills Rob by drugging him and bludgeoning him to death, igniting worldwide media frenzy.  Years later, Andrew is caught embezzling millions of dollars to support his increasingly lavish lifestyle and drug addiction. With the courts breathing down his neck, former business partners turning on him, and a frustrated and embarrassed wife filing for divorce, Andrew is found dead in the basement of his Greenwich mansion.  The question remains: was Andrew murdered by one of his many enemies, or did he arrange it himself in order to escape his living nightmare? 

Robin Tunney is starring in the television series, The Mentalist! Check out this restaurant scene from the pilot episode. Are you watching it? It’s about a mentalist turned private investigator who uses his skills to help the police. Robin plays Agent Teresa Lisbon, the head of the squad to which Baker’s character is an adviser to. In her mind though, he’s just a pest.

For those of you who can’t see it - here’s the Youtube link!

Robin Tunney is starring in Open Window, directed by Mia Goldman. Robin plays Goldman’ ego, newly engaged photographer Izzy, who is brutally assaulted at home by an intruder (Matt Keeslar). She then withdraws from virtually everyone, leaving her fiancé (Australian actor Joel Edgerton) distressed at being unable to help her get past her trauma.

In casting Tunney, Goldman recalls, “I felt I wanted someone fresh, in the sense of somebody who was a wonderful actress but hadn’t done this kind of thing before. Robin was offered the role very early on, and she was with us for four years before we got all the financing together. I just thought she was perfect for the role.”

Goldman also was sold from the start on Edgerton (Kinky Boots), a relative newcomer to American audiences. She says he has “such range and such depth, he can play anything. We never discussed it, but I felt he had a personal understanding of the film and its message.” So did Goldman’s brother-in-law, fellow filmmaker Todd Field (In the Bedroom), an executive producer of Open Window.

Until shooting was completed, Goldman didn’t get too specific about how much Open Window was about her. “I sort of assumed when I read it that it had actually happened, but I didn’t ask,” Tunney says. “I got the very broad strokes, and maybe three days after we finished, Mia and I had dinner, and she told me a little more. From what I’ve heard from women who have seen the film, people really identify with the stages of grief that Izzy goes through.”

Tunney hopes to do more work on the order of Open Window, believing she has more leverage after her broad exposure on Fox’s Prison Break. She remains surprised by some fans’ reactions to the murder of her character, attorney Veronica, in season two (which arrives September 4 on DVD).

“It’s an odd thing,” she says. “The week after I ‘died’ on the show, I was celebrating a friend’s birthday in Texas, and we went to a spa. The woman at the check-in counter started crying and said to me, ‘I am so sorry!’ She was just so upset, I said, ‘It’s not real, you know.’ That character had her run, and there wasn’t anything else she could do. We all knew that going in.”

Goldman already has two more movies in the works to direct, and she hopes those prove as collaborative as she found Open Window to be.

“I was buoyed by my producers, the cast and the crew,” she says. “Everybody was a partner on this.”

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So what has Robin Tunney been up to lately?

Tunney is preoccupied in filming August, a movie about two brothers struggling to maintain their start-up company on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the said film, Tunney stars as Melanie, alongside other cast members including Josh Hartnett as Tom, Naomie Harris as Sarrah, Adam Scott as Joshua, Rip Torn as David, Andre Royo as Dylan and David Bowie as Ogilvie to name a few.

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Pictures of Robin Tunney at the Coach Fragrance Launch to Benefit EBMRF - April 2007

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Some pics of Robin Tunney at the Hollywoodland Premiere:

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Veronica’s dead and will not appear in Prison Break ever again. However, being dead in reel life doesn’t mean problems gone in real life. Robin Tunney had to lie to her friends and neighbours about her “death” (she could not reveal the truth until the show airs). And she felt gulilty about all these hiding and lying. Poor Tunney.

Here’s Tunney’s parting quote…

“You know, the character had its run, and I was really happy to be part of a show that was so successful and that people loved so much, but there was really nothing else for her to do.”

Robin and Veronica and God Bless Her and Her via Contactmusic

Veronica (Robin Tunney) was shot dead (don’t think she will recover from that hole in her head). Anyway, tell us about how you feel about her death or simply send in your condolences.

For example: I’m sad that one fine lady was gone.

Robin Tunney says she was terrified to meet Ben Affleck to film Hollywoodland because she was sure he’d remember her worst audition - one for Good Will Hunting.

She says, “I woke up and they flew me to go and read with him and Matt. I had an outrageous break-out. I think I had 15 pimples on my face. I was sweating in the room and I really wanted the part and I couldn’t remember my lines.”

When it comes to the Hollywoodland audition she says her skin was clear and “‘This time, I’m not gonna screw this up.” She got the part but she was very nervous for filming. “I was so nervous the night before the table reading that I was throwing up. I thought, ‘I’m gonna go down to that table reading and they’re gonna realise I’m the one person who hasn’t been within 10 feet of an Academy Award. I’ve never even seen one in person. They’re gonna find this out and say, ‘OK let’s get rid of her.’”

Source: ContactMusic.com
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