Translated from French

The broadcasting of the sixth season has finished in France. What’s going to happen in season seven?

The producers keep it secret. It’s impossible to know where our characters will be in three months. I wonder if the writers haven’t though about killing Sara. She’s had almost everything else happen to her - arrest, humiliation, bad dating … She’s been the team’s scapegoat for a long time. Although, I can tell you that in season seven, [Gil] Grissom is going to make it up to her, which gives me a rest. At last, I can finally smile on screen!

After seven years are you used to seeing corpses?

I’m stronger now, but I sometimes want to puke when I see all the special effects made by our special effects! Outdoing other TV shows has become a game for them. They never run out of ideas to show amazing deaths.

All this [death] doesn’t seem to make for a cheerful atmosphere on the set!

Not at all! We laugh and we play music. We made a band - the actors and the technicians. Marg Helgenberger plays piano, Gary Dourdan plays bass and Robert David Hall plays guitar. I even want to film one of our impromptu gigs for our fans!

When you meet fans, what do you talk about ?

All of them want to see Sara and Gil have a love story, which is going to happen in the new season. But “CSI” isn’t about the private lives of its heroes. Mysteries are at the heart of every episode.

Are you surprised by the infatuation of viewers about “CSI” ?

What really surprised me is the interest our fans have in crimes. Some of them tell me complex scenarios about the best way to kill someone. At first, I was terrified about it and I felt like I had serial killers in front of me! Now I’m more relaxed and I joke with them.

We know very little about your private life. Why are you so secret ?

I think it’s very important to keep the mystery secret. And also it’s good for the audience, so that people don’t confuse me with my character on “CSI”.

You never act in movies during your summer holiday. Is it a personal choice ?

I work 14 hour days for nine and a half months and I don’t want to run everywhere during my holidays. Seven years ago, I created my own theater troupe. That’s how I relax.

Do you have a theater project going on?

I’m a producer of “Dear Bernard”, a musical comedy about an English girl who comes to Hollywood to be successful. I also suggested to the “CSI” producers that we write a musical episode for this season. Wouldn’t it be funny to see Grissom and his team singing during autopsies? We could even pretend it was all Sara’s dream!