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Elizabeth Perkins reports her character’s antagonistic relationship with Nancy Botwin, the pot-selling mom played by Mary Louise Parker on “Weeds” “is going to change” as the just-launched new season of the Showtime series unfurls.  “I love it when we’re at odds, because it’s so much fun to play,” says Perkins, who’s garnered two Golden Globe [...]

On Wednesday’s CBS “Early Show,” co-host Julie Chen teased an interview with actress Elizabeth Perkins from Showtime’s ‘Weeds’: “We’re going to see what she thinks about weed. Not the show, the plant.” Later, Chen offered yet another tease: “You know her from ‘Weeds’ on Showtime. Elizabeth Perkins. We’re going to find out if she thinks [...]

(CBS) In the Showtime comedy series “Weeds,” Elizabeth Perkins stars as Celia Hodes, the tough-talking frenemy of a drug-dealing soccer mom played by Mary-Louise Parker.
Perkins has played the complex character for four seasons, twice earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her work.
“Well, as an actress, you always want to play somebody who is ultimately really [...]

Although Showtime’s Weeds is dark comedy series that authentically taps on the shady dealings within the drug business, that doesn’t mean that cast uses real marijuana while filming the pot-themed series. In an interview with FANCAST, Elizabeth Perkins, who presently stars as Celia Hodes on the show, clears the air on the kind of herbs [...]

By Shirley Halperin

To be perfectly honest, as season 4 kicked off, I hadn’t given much thought to Weeds‘ secondary characters, like Conrad and Heylia or Doug and Dean. I knew they wouldn’t be around much (or, in some cases, at all), since the focus was shifting to a family on the run, and God [...]

They may be top comedy stars on US TV, but it seems Weeds actresses Elizabeth Perkins and Mary-Louise Parker would like to emulate on-screen, the lives of a couple of funny British characters too.
“There’s just something delicious about watching people misbehave without any sense of conscience. I loved Absolutely Fabulous because of that,” Mary-Louise told [...]