Many of us would be happy if we could remember the name of the person introduced to us five minutes ago. A tiny percentage of people, though, remember everything that ever happened to them.
What they earned on a third-grade spelling test is as readily accessible in their minds as what they ate half an hour ago. In CBS’ Tuesday drama “Unforgettable,” Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery) is one of those people.
Thin, with bright red hair that must be touched up constantly to cover blond roots, Montgomery wears black jeans and a black tank top. Her gold detective badge is on her hip. She looks fit and tough as the crew rearranges the lighting on set.
It’s a rainy early September morning on Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land between Manhattan and Queens, and in a nondescript building, sets for the procedural crime show are bustling.
“That’s the secret of this character,” Montgomery says. “All of the minutiae of her life is there, but the great moment of her life is not there.”
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