Thanks to October for sending this in!<\/p>\n
\nFrom: Denver Post
\nJuly 03, 2000<\/p>\nThey said that “Roswell” was hanging by a thread, that the powers that be at
\nthe WB network had the show “on the bubble” between renewal and cancellation.
\nMillions of fans worried, but somehow-call it intuition, gut instinct or
\nsimply wishful thinking-Majandra Delfino wasn’t one of them. The actress, who
\nstars in the show, says she wasn’t all that surprised when
\ncreator\/producer\/writer Jason Katims called with the news that the network
\nhad renewed “Roswell” for a second season.<\/p>\n“I hoped. I knew,” says Delfino, who plays Maria DeLuca on the low-rated but
\ncritically lauded sci-fi series. “I felt the WB was saying ‘Yeah, it might
\nnot’ just to get us scared, to motivate us.”<\/p>\n“I just felt that we did so well once they changed our night,” she adds,
\nspeaking of the show’s shift from Wednesdays to Mondays. “I thought, ‘How
\ncould they not pick us up?’ ”<\/p>\nSuspicions are the lifeblood of “Roswell” of course. Who are the benevolent
\naliens? Who are the rotten ones? Can our hero aliens-Max (Jason Behr), Isabel
\n(Katherine Heigl) and Michael (Brendan Fehr), who grew up on Earth in human
\nform-trust their human pals Liz (Shiri Appleby), Maria and Alex (Colin
\nHanks), to keep their secret?<\/p>\nAs the first season unfolded, Maria evolved from a jittery ditz into a
\nformidable young woman. She stood up to her mother, devised impromptu action
\nplans to help her alien friends dodge the FBI and threw herself hard into a
\nrelationship with the often emotionally remote Michael.<\/p>\n“I liked that they explored all of that and didn’t just make her the dumb
\nblond,” Delfino says. “They made Maria a free spirit with a brain.”
\nNo dumb bunny herself, Delfino-who plays piano, writes music and is something
\nof a mathematics wiz- spent part of the “Roswell” hiatus in Cincinnati,
\nacting in director Steven Soderbergh’s buzzed-about drama, “Traffic.” She
\nplays a drug-abusing high schooler, who’s a bad influence on Michael Douglas’
\ndaughter.<\/p>\nIn only a couple of weeks, however, Delfino will be back on the “Roswell”
\nset. The WB greenlit 13 new episodes, and the network will decide whether or
\nnot to produce another nine soon after the first few shows air.<\/p>\nDelfino reveals that the second season will continue the sci-fi emphasis that
\ndominated last year’s latter episodes. And, despite unmistakable intimations
\nthat Isabel and Michael were meant to be together, the actress believes fans
\nwill see more of Maria and Michael.
\n“Listen, that’s all my fan mail is about,” the actress says of the fiery
\nMaria-Michael relationship, which contrasts sharply with the love-dovey,
\nRomeo-and-Juliet bond between Liz and Max. “Everyone was dying because
\nMichael kissed Isabel. They were so afraid that meant Michael and Isabel had
\nto be together.”<\/p>\n“It was all, ‘Let’s please keep Maria and Michael together,’ ” she says,
\nlaughing. “As if I write the stories. So there are some really diehard fans
\nof Michael and Maria. But I’m sure they won’t be separating us,” she says.
\n“The fans need to relax.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to October for sending this in! From: Denver Post July 03, 2000 They said that “Roswell” was hanging by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2021],"tags":[40,12,2457],"coauthors":[2266],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-majandra-delfino","tag-article","tag-majandra-delfino","tag-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28210,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/28210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}