Charisma Carpenter

Charisma’s Back! This Sunday, Cordelia—er, Charisma Carpenter returns to the WB on Charmed, playing a demonic seer. And though it’s hardly an Angel movie (sniff, sniff) at least we’ll get to see our girl back in action, right?

Charisma appears in this Sunday’s episode, wherein Leo seeks her out while investigating Wyatt’s death, and returns Oct. 10 when she gives advice to a "halfy," that is, half-demon and half-human who feels the urge to be fully evil. (We’ve all had such days.)

"They beat me up!" she spills of her role. "They don’t like what they see, and the character Leo, he totally slams me down and grabs me by the throat, and he’s pissed. I always seem to deal with [people] really angry at me, so I don’t know what that’s about."

And she’ll be sporting some sexy duds. "Do you know how crazy my outfit is? Oh my god, it’s so insane," she laughed. "It’s so futuristic, but it’s like a belly dancer with a little bit of Battlestar Galactica going on, it’s so weird. The whole midriff is exposed and obviously lots of cleavage. It’s very, um, seductive."

When asked if she’d consider doing an Angel movie, she replies, "Nuh-huh." She says she hasn’t heard any rumblings of her costars stepping in, either. "I don’t know. I’m so far removed from that world at this point. I’ve never been approached certainly about it, so I couldn’t even conjecture."

Charisma’s keeping her fingers crossed that her own series, Cats and Dogs, gets picked up for UPN midseason. "I could know any day now what they’re doing," she explained. "UPN’s fall lineup started airing this week, so I think after a couple of weeks of that lineup we should know more."

The half-hour comedy would feature Charisma as an uptight lawyer who has an obsession with animals, scaring potential boyfriends away. "She can’t keep a man, or she’s so distracted with her outside interests with the dogs that people run from her, because they think she’s weird because she’s a fanatic for dogs," she gushed.

Alias DVDIf that falls through, she says she’d be happy to return to Charmed. "It doesn’t seem like my character is going anywhere, you know, so there’s a possibility that at some point down the road they might bring me back," she predicted. "Unless there’s something more prominent going on, I’d be more than happy to have some giggles with the girls and go back."