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Throughout Season 4 of “Reacher,”\u00a0Elspeth Sampson’s actress, Kathleen Robertson, might seem familiar<\/a>\u00a0to you due to her past roles on\u00a0“Beverly Hills, 90210” or “The Expanse.” But you might also recognize the actress from her major role on the Starz drama “Boss.”<\/p>\n “Boss” was a 2011 political drama series in which\u00a0Robertson played\u00a0Kitty O’Neill, the personal aide to the corrupt mayor of Chicago. The mayor, meanwhile, was played by “Cheers” and “Frasier” alum Kelsey Grammer<\/a>.\u00a0Talking to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in 2012, Robertson recalled a scene she shared with Grammer that was so intense it made her cry:\u00a0“There’s a scene where [Mayor] Kane eviscerates Kitty and says, ‘Do you think you have worth? Because if you think you have worth, you don’t. You’re nothing.’ … It was a scene that was hard for me because Kelsey was so intense, I couldn’t stop crying.”<\/p>\n Robertson told Bullz-Eye<\/a>\u00a0that Kitty was “a political animal, and that’s the only way she feels alive.” Between Kitty in “Boss” and Elspeth in “Reacher,” it seems that Robertson has carved out a niche for herself in savvy political strategist roles. Sampson, however, is clearly the more competent of these characters. Kitty spends much of her show wrapped up in a sex scandal, whereas Sampson appears to have no time or desire for any such distraction.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Boss was critically acclaimed but canceled after two seasons<\/p>\n
Jeff Vespa\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Kathleen Robertson explained to Bullz-Eye that she viewed Kitty’s arc in “Boss” as a story of someone embracing who they truly are, warts and all: “By the end of [Season 2], she kind of comes around to the realization of, like, ‘I’m probably not going to change. And that’s okay.’ And … I kind of love that about her.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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