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" Actress Kyra Sedgwick, best known for her current role in TNT&amp;#039;s The Closer and movies Something to Talk About and Singles, is teaming up with the Hill&amp;#039;s Science Diet Shelter Nutrition Partnership for Jan. 24&amp;#039;s Change a Pet&amp;#039;s Life Day, a national free pet adoption drive. We caught up with Kyra to chat about the upcoming initiative, her own adopted pets and her hit TV show, as well as life with long-time hubby, actor Kevin Bacon, and their two children, Travis and Sosie. Enjoy!   WD Can you tell us a little bit about the pet adoption initiative?   KS January 24 is Change a Pet&amp;#039;s Life Day, sponsored by Science Diet, who&amp;#039;s offering free pet adoptions at shelters across the country. There are 8 million cats and dogs in shelters right now and more coming in every day. A lot of these shelters are not no-kill shelters; they&amp;#039;re shelters that can only house a dog or a cat for a couple of weeks. If you&amp;#039;re interested in animal welfare at all, adoption is a crucial part of that\u2014not to mention, it&amp;#039;s such a gift to give to yourself, to your family. It&amp;#039;s a cause I really believe in. If anyone&amp;#039;s interested in letting a new animal into their lives, they can go to feedingisbelieving.com to read up on shelters in their area, real transformation stories, etc.   WD Science Diet\u2014that&amp;#039;s what I used to feed my cat, Moe!   KS It&amp;#039;s a strongly recommended pet food brand\u2014well-balanced. It helps get these pets ready for adoption. Most people are concerned with the health status of an animal they&amp;#039;re considering adopting, and Hill&amp;#039;s is committed to helping these dogs or cats be real healthy before you get them home.   WD Have you had many adopted pets?   KS Yeah, I&amp;#039;ve had them my whole life, from the time I was a kid. When I moved out on my own at 18, I got myself a shelter dog, a mutt\u2014a golden retriever/husky, I think\u2014and then when I met Kevin, he also had a dog, so for a while there we were a two-dog family. After both of them passed, we adopted Paulie, who is a Labrador deceiver\u2014a fake lab. He&amp;#039;s been an amazingly wonderful part of our family. He&amp;#039;s 11 now. We also have a cat that we adopted from a shelter, and I can&amp;#039;t imagine ever getting a pet for the rest of my life that wasn&amp;#039;t an adopted pet, because there are so many animals who need homes.   WD Aside from your leading role in The Closer, what other projects are you working on right now?   KS Well, The Closer has five new episodes premiering on January 26 at 9 p.m. on TNT. We start filming the next season in March. I also have a movie coming out sometime in the fall called Game; it has a lot of great people in it. Also, I&amp;#039;ve been spending a lot of time at home with my animals and my children. It&amp;#039;s been really nice.   WD Anything coming up in the show that you&amp;#039;re able to share with the media just yet?   KS Well, you know, in this five-episode arc there&amp;#039;s a possible wedding; it&amp;#039;s been looming all during the fourth season, so we&amp;#039;ll see how that wraps itself up. I think the fun thing about these five episodes is that there&amp;#039;s a lot of personal stuff for Brenda [Sedgwick&amp;#039;s character], a lot of personal, private moments which the first and second season you saw a lot of, but not much since. Brenda is more of a loner, and while that&amp;#039;s a wonderful role to play as an actor, it&amp;#039;s also a really great thing for the audience, I think. You get back to some of that in this five-episode arc.   WD Is there anyone in Game that you&amp;#039;ve never worked with before that you&amp;#039;re enjoying working with?   KS Yeah, Michael C. Hall from Dexter is fantastic to work with, and Gerard Butler (300, P.S. I Love You, RocknRolla)\u2026who else? Alison Lohman, Ludacris\u2014some really great people. Should be cool\u2014lots of special effects, things blowing up\u2026not my typical kind of movie [laughs], but I think it should be super-cool. It should be out in September.   WD Where are you living?   KS We live in New York, in Manhattan.   WD And you have two children?   KS Yes, we have two kids: Our son is in his second year of college and my daughter is still home with us.   WD How is he liking college?   KS He loves it! He&amp;#039;s thrilled. I mean, why he would not want to be with me every second is sort of beyond me, though. I find it confusing, but, you know\u2014he likes it! What can I say?! [laughs]   WD What kind of activities do you like to do with your kids?   KS We like to hike a lot. They don&amp;#039;t like it on their way up but once they&amp;#039;re at the top of the mountain they really do like it. We just spent our winter vacation in Arizona doing a lot of hiking. We also like to take them out for meals, we like to cook dinner at home and we like to watch movies together. You know, typical.   WD What&amp;#039;s the best parenting advice you&amp;#039;ve ever received?   KS &amp;quot;Talk less and listen more.&amp;quot;   WD What&amp;#039;s your secret to maintaining a happy relationship with your kids and husband?   KS You know, I think one of the secrets is not being naive enough to think that there actually is one secret. It&amp;#039;s always a work in progress\u2014all of it. You make your priorities and then everything else falls in line.   WD What&amp;#039;s your last-minute meal\u2014your go-to when you&amp;#039;re short on time?   KS I&amp;#039;d say lettuce, a can of beans, olives, some lemon juice and olive oil\u2014that&amp;#039;s pretty good. With some shaved Parmesan, if possible\u2014it makes a hearty salad. And it&amp;#039;s all canned, so you usually have the stuff around.   WD What three items do you always keep in your kitchen/refrigerator/pantry?   KS Almond milk, olive oil and avocado.   WD And finally, what&amp;#039;s the last thing you do before you go to bed at night?   KS Tell my husband I love him. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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