You have some heated scenes with Edie Falco coming up and the big surprise happening in episode 10. I know we don’t want to give it away to the viewers, but what can you say about it?
Yes, in Coop’s world, he starts to develop a little something for her. I don’t want to say where it goes, but somewhere along the lines romantically in Coop’s world, Jackie and he should be together.

Meanwhile, though, you do get a girlfriend on the show soon. The lovely Jill Flint, who plays Jill Casey on Royal Pains and Bex on Gossip Girl.
Yes. I do have a little girlfriend coming on soon very well, and it becomes very difficult emotionally after he decides that he and Jackie should be together. She’s great. I like the stuff with me and the girlfriend. It’s fun stuff because he’s so socially inept with any kind of relationship and yet he doesn’t know it. I feel sorry for him in a funny kind of way.

What do you love about Dr. Cooper?
I find him very sympathetic. I feel he’s very lonely and there are a lot of layers to the guy. On the surface, especially in first few episodes, people think he’s a jerk, but deep down, he’s—and I’m hoping as the series grows people find out that—he’s just really lonely. He doesn’t have many friends, and he just wants to be liked by everybody. He tries so hard for people to like him, and he doesn’t even realize that they don’t like him because he’s so oblivious.

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