Kyra Sedgwick
“Ten Days in the Valley” star Kyra Sedgwick revealed that she had not received a lot of offers for TV shows following her seven-season stint on TNT’s “The Closer.” Pictured: Sedgwick poses for photos at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 17, 2017 in Los Angeles. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson

“Ten Days in the Valley” star Kyra Sedgwick has revealed the real reason she hadn’t played any regular roles on primetime television after TNT’s “The Closer” ended its seven-season run in 2012.

“I’m gonna be perfectly honest: I haven’t been flooded with offers,” Sedgwick told Toronto Star. “I could give you the usual ‘I’ve been looking for the right thing,’ et cetera, but the truth is, I haven’t been flooded with offers. Yes, the idea of doing TV was scary to me for a few years because I was like, ‘I’m never going to have a situation as great as ‘The Closer.’ The show was so beloved and was getting nominated every year and it felt like a lot to live up to.”

Although Sedgwick went on to do 10 movies after “The Closer,” the Golden Globe winner said that she prefers doing TV shows over movies. “I love working in television because it affords you episode after episode to explore character,” the 52-year-old actress said. “In a film, you have an hour and a half, two hours, to show everybody a human being. This is more generous with the time and you get to luxuriate in knowing that you don’t have to show a million different colors in a short, finite period.”

In her new TV series “Ten Days in the Valley,” Sedgwick plays Jane Sadler, an overworked television producer and single mother in the middle of a fractious separation, whose life is turned upside down when her young daughter Lake (Abigail Pniowsky) goes missing in the middle of the night.

“I love how real the story felt to me,” Sedgwick told E! News of what drew her to the project. “I love the idea of a mystery-thriller, but [one] that [is] very much about character. I think one of the great things about the show is we’re unpacking the mystery of Jane and her daughter and the family, but we’re also unpacking the mystery of Jane and why she’s the way she is.”

In this week’s Season 1, episode 2 of the series, people start to fall away as suspects in Lake’s disappearance. Sedgwick, however, told TVLine that viewers “really have to commit to the 10 episodes” of the show’s freshman run to entirely get the story.

“Ten Days in the Valley” Season 1, episode 2, titled “Day 2: Cutting Room Floor,” airs on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 10 p.m. EDT on ABC.

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