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"Charlie Sheen&amp;#039;s big sitcom comeback Anger Management was a ratings smash when it debuted last year and now the show is back - kicking off a mammoth two-year, 90-episode run! Digital Spy spoke to Noureen DeWulf - who plays the glamorous but self-centred Lacey - about the show&amp;#039;s success, working with the &amp;quot;eccentric&amp;quot; Mr Sheen and what Anger Management fans can expect from season two!  When Anger Management premiered last year, it broke cable ratings records - did you expect it to be so huge? &amp;quot;I think because it was Charlie Sheen starring, I expected it to go either very well or very badly! And I was happy that it went very, very well. So in a way, I wasn&amp;#039;t surprised - he does seem to be very good at making a comeback.&amp;quot; FX ordered 90 episodes of the show at once - were you surprised that they made such a huge commitment? &amp;quot;Well, I think the show is a great fit for FX and I think getting Charlie Sheen on their network was also a great get for them. The numbers on our show have also trickled down into their own programming so I think, for here in the States, it&amp;#039;s a great decision - and I&amp;#039;m certainly excited to be employed for two years!&amp;quot; What first attracted you to the role of Lacey? &amp;quot;I really love this character. In the first ten episodes, we just barely got to know the patients - in the last couple of episodes, I finally started to have a little bit of storyline of my own. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a character that I think has so many places to go. She&amp;#039;s so troubled and so funny - and that&amp;#039;s a really great combination of things to play. Plus, she&amp;#039;s superficial, she&amp;#039;s very fashionable\u2026 all of those things are very fun qualities to play in a character.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m just looking forward to doing more with her and learning more about her. This season is really exciting for me because Lacey&amp;#039;s starting to have really great, interesting storylines, which I&amp;#039;m thrilled about.&amp;quot;  Do we explore her issues more in season two and find out why she is so angry? &amp;quot;Yeah, we definitely touch on what in her childhood has happened. This season is great because the patients are not stuck in their chairs like they were in the first ten episodes - this season, the patients and Lacey especially are more integrated into the show as a whole. &amp;quot;Obviously, we have a lot of cast members, so we all take turns [in the spotlight], but this season Lacey&amp;#039;s got several different jobs and we see her in a work environment - she becomes a make-up artist, she becomes a model... but none of these jobs really work out for her!&amp;quot; Lacey also gets together with Nolan (Derek Richardson) this season, which seems difficult to believe\u2026 &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;ll be very jarring\u2026 and very awkward! But yeah, she attempts to have a relationship with the one man who seems to be giving her some kind of unconditional love. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be pretty on-again/off-again, because she has a hard time staying faithful to him, which I think is hilarious\u2026 and also cruel!&amp;quot;  Cee Lo Green appears on the show this season, playing a version of himself - did you get a chance to work with him? &amp;quot;I did and I think he&amp;#039;s amazing. He&amp;#039;s from Georgia and so am I, so it was exciting for me to meet someone that I&amp;#039;d known about for a really long time. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s really funny and sweet - I just wanted to hug him all day. He&amp;#039;s so huggable!&amp;quot; Charlie Sheen was in the news a lot before the show premiered. What has been your experience of working with him? &amp;quot;I definitely was nervous, because I didn&amp;#039;t know what the show would be. But he has surprised me on so many levels. &amp;quot;In a way, Charlie is exactly what you think he&amp;#039;s going to be - he&amp;#039;s very eccentric and funny and he&amp;#039;s a very talented sitcom actor. But he&amp;#039;s also unexpectedly kind and very caring. I really enjoy working with him.&amp;quot; Do you think people can enjoy Anger Management on its own merits now that the controversy has died down? &amp;quot;I hope so. I mean, any attention seems to be good attention and for some season, Charlie can do no wrong with women - my friends tell me that they&amp;#039;re in love with him, and they&amp;#039;re younger than him! &amp;quot;Some people\u2026 other people just want to forgive them and they want to just enjoy them. So yes, I&amp;#039;m hoping that as we create more distance from all of that, people will enjoy the show and if anyone felt alienated before, I hope they come and watch it. But I don&amp;#039;t think people were [alienated] - I felt like they were always on board with him.&amp;quot;  Martin Sheen is a series regular this season too\u2026 &amp;quot;I actually have two or three really great episodes with Martin so far - we&amp;#039;ve shot 17 [in total]. I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick. He&amp;#039;s an old veteran of the business and he really knows what works and what doesn&amp;#039;t. I think having him brings a great sense of stability and old-time funny to our show that we really could use.&amp;quot; Viewers might know Martin better from dramatic roles like The West Wing - do you think he&amp;#039;ll surprise people with how funny he is? &amp;quot;I hope so, because I certainly think he&amp;#039;s very funny - his timing is perfect, just like his son. I think it&amp;#039;s great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s Charlie&amp;#039;s father on the show, but he&amp;#039;s the opposite of a father figure - he&amp;#039;s very sneaky and manipulative, and I think all of that is a great turn for him.&amp;quot; With so many episodes to come, what would you like to see happen to Lacey in the future? &amp;quot;I would love to see her just continue to grow and make more of an attempt to be committed to things - right now, we&amp;#039;ve got her in and out of jobs and relationships within an episode or two. I&amp;#039;d like to see her grow and change as a person, but I think the comedy comes from her flaws, so I really don&amp;#039;t want to see her get that much better!&amp;quot; Anger Management continues tonight (Wednesday, February 6) at 10pm on Comedy Central. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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