Linda Gray on New TNT DALLAS: Sue Ellen 2.0 Quite the Match for Larry Hagman's J.R. Ewing

Entertainment Weekly spoke with Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman from Austin this week, where they are currently filming the first season of the TNT reboot of the DALLAS.

Gray fondly remembers her time playing the former Miss Texas and sweetheart of the Ewing family, Sue Ellen. “I thought she was the most interesting female on television in the ’80s,” Gray says, “because you never knew what was going to happen to her, where she was going to go.”

That’s exactly the same kind of Sue Ellen you’ll get this time, even if she is 20 years older. “You can’t have her be bland this time, you can’t have her be a victim,” Gray says. “I went for long walks and I took Sue Ellen with me. I said, ‘Come on, girl. You’re going with me, girlfriend.’ We gotta figure out where you are 20 years later.”

Gray won’t elaborate much, but she reveals that Sue Ellen 2.0 will be quite the match for ex-husband J.R.: “She’s powerful, she’s rich, she’s well connected, and she knows all the games that J.R. has ever played. She learned from the best, let’s put it that way.”