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ET Online
Sept. 29, 2006
David James Elliott Has a New 'Home' Jennifer Finnigan has a new boss now that David James Elliott has joined the cast.
A lot has changed for the sophomore season of the CBS drama "Close to Home." Jennifer Finnigan is now a widow, the cases that are being tried are no longer necessarily suburban and "JAG"'s David James Elliott has joined the cast.
"Close to Home" is about a group of prosecutors based in Indiana who try sensational cases. Elliott plays the new district attorney in town, James Conlon, who replaces last season's D.A., Steve Sharpe (John Carroll Lynch).
"They offered a role that I thought was incredibly interesting," he says, when asked what brought him back to CBS. "It was an opportunity to come home and work with [executive producers] Jonathan Littman and Jerry Bruckheimer on a show with a really interesting character."
As for the backstory on James Conlon, Elliott explains, "My character was a Manhattan D.A. He's highly-driven, which is why he decides that his political ambitions would be a little more difficult [to achieve] in Manhattan. So he thinks in Indiana [he could be a] big fish in a small pond."
That said, Elliott's character will not have the same friendly relationship with Deputy Prosecutor Annabeth Chase (Finnigan) that she had with the former D.A.
"We needed some conflict in the office, and his character especially adds that conflict," Finnigan shares. "It's interesting to have my superior and I have tension and friction between us. He's very ego-driven, and Annabeth doesn't jive with that."
