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Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless said gaining 40lbs for play was 'one of dumbest things I've ever done'
Two-time Emmy winner Sharon Gless packed 40lbs on to her 5ft5in frame to more authentically portray the violent, demented nurse in Misery at London's Criterion Theatre between December 1992-March 1993.The 78-year-old Cagney & Lacey alum recalled deeply regretting the decision to gain weight to play Annie Wilkes in her memoir Apparently There Were Complaints, which hit shelves on Tuesday.'When I got it, the [director Simon Moore] said, "We'll make you a fat suit,"' Sharon told Page Six on Tuesday.