Missy Peregrym Rookie Blue

Talking about her new cop drama Rookie Blue, Missy Peregrym told the New York Daily News: "It would be devastating if we didn't go back for a second season. If I didn't get the opportunity to go back, it would be really hard to let go and do something else."



ABC has renewed the US-Canadian show with mostly Canadian actors, including the sporty Missy Peregrym who is from Vancouver, for a second season. "It's a rare thing to have a female lead on a TV show. I was excited to play a character who was more well-rounded. I got to go deeper with Andy [McNally]," Peregrym says. "She wants to save everybody, but has the hard realization that not everybody wants to be saved."



Missy Peregrym may be popular for her looks and sex appeal, but would like to be taken seriously as an actor, and also be more inspiring to young girls. She tells the New York Daily News: "I don't think there's anything wrong with being beautiful. I'm not saying hide that, I'm saying do it in a tasteful way, not just sexual and baring my body." And as an example she talks of getting mail from girls who'd seen her play a gymnast in Stick It and were inspired to take up the sport. "I can't sell myself to Maxim," Peregrym says, "and turn and tell a young girl you don't have to dress that way to make it."