Vegas’ Marg Helgenberger Wanted Catherine’s Wardrobe To Be More Sophisticated

Characters and the actresses that play them change and evolve, so it’s no surprise that when Marg Helgenberger wanted to have a wardrobe update for her character when she stepped back into the lab on “CSI: Vegas.”

“Now that I am a little older, more mature, I wanted [Catherine’s] wardrobe to be more elegant,” she said in an interview with USA Today. But, if you look at any of the recent episodes Helgenberger has been in, you’ll notice that her outfits don’t look that different than those in the original series, which is for a good reason.

“But that quickly changed –- not to what she used to wear, which was a lot of tight jeans, tight pants and boots. But it’s gone more like that, which feels more like her,” Helgenberger added in her interview. It seems like, as for now, the classic look of Catherine Willows was not to be altered. While a more sophisticated might have worked on her character, Catherine did build her reputation by wearing more casual clothing. And why mess with Catherine’s clothes when that was part of the formula for making “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” the most-watched drama TV show in the world five different times, according to the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Season 2 of “CSI: Vegas” airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.