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TheWrap spoke with the veteran actress who previously starred on “Cagney & Lacey” and “Queer as Folk” about her experience on the USA drama and that final emotional death scene.Īlso read: ‘Burn Notice’ Postmortem: Creator Talks Series Finale, Its Emotional Death and a Spinoff In the end, Gless’ character, Madeline, sacrificed her life to make sure her loved ones got out alive. Note: Spoilers if you haven’t watched Thursday’s series finale, “Reckoning.”
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It could’ve gone for 12 years for me, Madeline would probably be in a home, but I never like the story to end especially in TV when you love the people you work with.” And I love working with a family forever. “The more you get to do something, the better you get at it. “I always think that we all get better as we get older,” Gless told TheWrap. Although “Burn Notice” creator Matt Nix and others at USA believed it was time to end its popular spy drama, star Sharon Gless could’ve kept going.
