[Editor's note: This interview originally ran in Feburary 2010 just before Peggy's Cold Case episode aired)

Peggy McCay has been acting in film, theater and television for over 50 years and is still doing something that actors often do – she’s moonlighting. In this case, the Days Of Our Lives regular (she’s played Caroline Brady since 1983!) is jumping from daytime to prime time and appearing on this Sunday’s episode of CBS’s hit series Cold Case. In the episode, entitled ‘Metamorphosis’ and co-written by Cold Case producer Adam Glass and series star Danny Pino, McCay plays a former circus performer who may have invaluable information about a murder that occurred in the past. To get a take on her very different prime time role, her experience on Days with the beloved Frances Reid, who passed away last month at the age of 95 as well as her early career working with the likes of Helen Hayes, I sat down with McCay for coffee at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills last week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Halterman: In this weekend’s episode of Cold Case, you play a former circus performer who is questioned about an old murder. I loved your New York accent.

Peggy McCay:  I just figured that I had to have some accent. I would’ve used a Russian accent, which I can do, but I had no time to make sure it was absolutely authentic. I don’t like to do accents unless it’s absolutely right on. So I used New York to give it that kind of feistiness, directness.