Four of the Castle ladies reunited last night, when they attended the Disney Media Networks International Upfronts. I’ve added photos to the gallery from this event.

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Also, Molly Quinn attended a screening of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and was photographed with Jabba the Hut and some stormtroopers at the screening. You can find them below.

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The cast of “Castle” recently celebrated filming their 100th episode, which airs on Monday, April 1, and OTRC.com got a little inside scoop.

Since the show debuted in 2009 the relationship between New York City homicide detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) and novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) has grown, along with the cast of characters on the show.

OTRC.com had a chance to catch up with the cast members of the show, and series creator Andrew W. Marlowe, to talk about the big milestone. We also learned a few things about the episode and about the cast as well.

So check out four things we learned from our “Castle” 100th episode set visit below. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!)

1. The 100th episode has a Hitchcock vibe.

Fillion shed some light on the plot for the 100th episode and explained, “Castle broke his leg and out of sheer boredom, he’s participating in a little voyeurism. He’s watching the people in this building across the street, and our episode becomes a bit of a ‘Rear Window’ episode.”

“I witness a murder and no one seems to think that I saw what indeed I actually saw,” Fillion added. “Everyone’s got a reason why … a reason not to believe me. So I take matters into my own hands.”

Katic also told us that Beckett has to balance her time a little in the episode.

“Castle’s broken his leg and he sees a murder outside of his loft window and Beckett has to jump between babysitting Castle and taking care of a real murder out there in New York City,” she said. “There’s a car chase and an explosion and there’s a love story and it’s unrequited. We have a scandal. You should watch.”

2. Marlowe said 125 actresses tried out for the role of Detective Beckett but it was Katic who had that special something with Fillion.

“I think the show all starts with the chemistry between Nathan and Stana and we were really blessed in order to get Nathan. Nathan was great,” Marlowe said. “We read with 125 different actresses and we were looking for that ineffable something, that chemistry, and when Stana came in, we found it.”

“Without that we wouldn’t have a show,” he added. “So that’s what … if I could point to one thing, it’s that. That’s what people tune in to see every week.”

3. What’s next for Castle and Beckett’s relationship? The couple has a few questions to answer.

Marlowe told OTRC.com about the couple’s relationship, “I think the next step for this couple is figuring out what are they going to do next.”

“They’re coming up on a year this spring, what are we doing next? What is this relationship? Is this real? Are we taking the next step? How invested are you in me? How invested am I in you? So I think we’ll be wrestling with some of those big questions,” he added.

4. Off-screen the cast has become a second family.

Tamala Jones, who plays medical examiner Lanie Parish on the series, said that the cast of “Castle” really do enjoy each other’s company.

“To watch Molly grow up and to just get to know everybody and let this become my secondary family and we’re all still here doing what we love, it’s a true blessing,” she said. “You go to sets and you get along with a few people and with other people it’s like, ‘Oh hey good morning,’ and you go on about your business.”

“But here we all love and kiss and hug on each other and do special things like get the ice cream man out here with the truck or get the coffee man out here with the truck, just whatever,” she added.

Jones later continued, “We go all out for each other here and we really, really love coming to work and being with each other.”

Molly C. Quinn, who started out on the show when she was just 14 years old, talked to OTRC about how Nathan Fillion has become a sort of father-figure in her life.

“This is my family. This is my home. It’s been incredible. Everything, high school, driving lessons, first boyfriend. I remember Nathan saying, ‘I have to meet him,’ and I did! I brought him to set and Nathan met my first boyfriend and my second and my third and my fourth and my fifth … every one,” Quinn said with a laugh. “They cycle quite a bit but he’s always been there for me, you know, he’s an awesome sounding board.”

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Sometimes Susan Sullivan, who plays the flamboyantly effervescent actress-mother of a mystery writer on ABC’s hit “Castle,” has needed a little career push.

And even a little padding.

While attending Hofstra University on Long Island 50 years ago on a drama scholarship, Sullivan was working in New York City doing showroom modeling to earn extra money.

“There was this big ad in the New York Times for Playboy Bunnys,” she recalled. “Not that I wanted the job or I could even do the job because I was in school, but I wanted to see the Playboy Club because in the 1950s Playboy magazine was erotic, exciting and dangerous.”

So she put some padding in her bra, wore a slinky dress from the showroom and went for an audition. “You had to try on the outfit,” said Sullivan, with a laugh. She told the woman running the audition that she wasn’t voluptuous enough for the Bunny outfit.

“She said ‘get over yourself, everybody is padded to the hilt,’” she recalled.

So Sullivan put on the pink Bunny outfit and became Bunny Sue on weekends at the Playboy Club in Manhattan while she finished her studies at Hofstra.

Her father provided the next push. When she graduated from Hofstra, Sullivan left her native New York for the venerable Cleveland Playhouse in Ohio.

“I wanted to be a theater actress, everybody did,” said Sullivan, a vivacious 70-year-old who doesn’t look much different than her days as the warm-hearted wife and mother Maggie on the 1981-89 CBS prime-time soap, “Falcon Crest.”

During a recent interview on her day off from “Castle,” she’s relaxing in the family room of her expansive designer house nestled in the hills off Mulholland Drive, which she shares with her companion of the past 25 years, psychologist and author Connell Cowan.

“I did a couple of seasons at the Cleveland Playhouse doing really major plays,” noted Sullivan, who is still active in theater and is a member of the Antaeus Company and L.A Theatre Works.

But her father knew best. She needed to leave the security of the playhouse and come back to New York. “He said to me ‘Susan, you are going to be there for the rest of your life if you don’t leave now.’ He was right.”

Within weeks of moving back to New York in 1968, she made her Broadway debut opposite Dustin Hoffman in the play “Jimmy Shine.”

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A few years later, her longtime agent gave her another nudge. Sullivan was happily ensconced and making good money on the daytime soap “Another World.” But in 1975, her agent thought she should test the waters in Hollywood. Sullivan finally agreed, but only if she had the option of returning to the soap after three weeks if she couldn’t get an audition.

Near the end of her three-week trial, she read for the part of a girl in a bikini in the action-series “S.W.A.T.”

“I was doing [the audition] and they said, ‘How are your legs?” she recalled. Sullivan said that she lifted up her skirt a bit and said “Help me mother, I am in L.A. with my skirt up to show them that my legs are fine. I got the part.”

With that her daytime soap career was over and her Hollywood career had begun. Sullivan’s charm and talent have graced such TV movies, miniseries and feature films as “Rich Man, Poor Man — Book II,” for which she received an Emmy nomination, “The Incredible Hulk” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”

She’s been blessed to star in three hit series: “Castle,” “Dharma & Greg” and “Falcon Crest,” with the legendary Jane Wyman.

No one had to push Sullivan when it came to auditioning for the role of Martha Rodgers in “Castle,” which stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a mystery writer who helps solve cases with NYPD detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Castle shares his tony New York apartment with Martha and his teenage daughter Alexis (Molly C. Quinn).

“I think Susan is a remarkable actress and a fun actress,” said Andrew W. Marlowe, the creator and executive producer of “Castle.”

“I think her character was originally a lot broader,” noted Marlowe. “But working with Susan and understanding what she could bring to the role — she could be broad and she could be grounded and be a terrific foil for Nathan’s character — allowed us to actually evolve the character.”

Sullivan imbued a lot of her late mother into the part ,especially Martha’s joie de vivre.

“I even worked in one of her lines into the show,” Sullivan said. “She would love to say-’Susan, you is who you is and if you ain’t who you is, who is you?”‘

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This aired on FX for the 2012 Prism Awards, which took place quite sometime ago now. There’s footage from “Kill Shot,” which Stana and Jon both won Prism awards for, as well as some words from the cast, including Stana and Jon, as well as Seamus and Susan. A huge thanks to kristigirl31 who uploaded this at youtube!

As the season opens, is Martha in the dark like everyone else about the new relationship between Castle and Kate?
Yes, but you know Martha’s a pretty wise, experienced old soul. I doubt that she would stay in the dark for too long.

Why would Castle keep it from Martha? It seems as though his mother is the one person he actually confides in.
Yes. There you go. Well, I’d really be ruining it if I told you. It’s a very charming turn, the way that it all comes to the surface. And you’re right. They do have a unique and special relationship and part of what makes any show or book or piece of art really work is the truthfulness of it, number one. And truth always has within it and characters always have within them contradictions.Of course Martha and Castle and all of the characters are loaded with contradictions.

Behind the scenes, does it feel like there’s a new dynamic on the show now that Rick and Kate are finally together?
I think the dynamic behind the scenes as far as people connecting together and playing the moment, those are essentially the same. Whether it will be the same for the audience or not, I don’t know because there’s something very compelling about longing.  You long for something and then you get it and invariably you go Oh, this was it?

That’s the fear when you have people come together but from the first five scripts that I’ve read, I think they are handling this brilliantly. I am so impressed. I remember I read the first episode and I went to the writer and I said the curse of Moonlighting is broken. They’ve moved it to another dynamic and you can just feel that it’s going to have its own life and it’s going to be as interesting a life, just in a different way with the two of them now connected.

Most of your scenes are at the loft, which looks like a lovely place to spend time, but…
Oh, honey, let me tell you. If I were to have written out, which I recommend that people do, by the way…exactly what they want in life, in detail. I’d like to have an elegant apartment in New York with a patio, step down living room, wood burning fireplace you know, be detailed. I would have written in for this period of my life to have a part where I didn’t have to work too much. Where the hours weren’t too long and I had a great set to sit in. And I got it.

Would you like to have Martha get out more, like she did in “Cops & Robbers” last season?
You know that almost killed me, that episode. Seriously, I had a terrible car accident. What was interesting about that show for me, was that those were the long 15 hours days. It was a very demanding episode, sitting on the floor. All that kind of emotional stuff.  Up, down, up, down. I did not drink that whole week, not that I’m a big drinker. I usually have a glass of wine. I had no wine and I had no sugar and I was feeling really terrific. I’d worked every day that week which is the first time I’ve done that on this show. On that Thursday night, we finished around midnight. I got into my gorgeous little Jaguar and on the freeway I hit one of my fellow crew members on Castle.  There was an accident and everybody stopped and I just slammed into him. Totaled my car. Fortunately I didn’t kill anybody, including myself. I think they will never have me work those kind of hours again.

The vast majority of your scenes are with the characters of Rick and Alexis. With which other character would you like to spend more screen time?
Oh my God, I’d love to act with everybody at this point. Even though I know everyone, I barely see them.  I think I’ve had one scene with Stana, maybe two. Slight, like three or four line kind of things.  I’d love to have a scene with her.  I’d love to have a scene with Penny.  I’d love to have a scene with Tamala.  We’ve discussed this and pitched storyline possibilities.  I thought maybe if Martha was working on a character for a movie and went to interview Penny because she was going to be playing a character somewhat like Penny and that kind of thing.

The other idea I had was in order to do exactly what you are talking about, to meet the other characters, for Martha to be writing a book the way Castle writes the meta books. She would write a book, I don’t quite know what it would be about but she could interview all of the people on the show. That would give her the opportunity to have a scene with each of the characters and drive her son crazy by tip toeing into his arena of publishing books. But you know, I’ve pitched it. They’ll either do it or they won’t and that’s OK too. That’s on my mind, honey.

You’ve done so much in your career.  Have you had a favorite or a most challenging role?
I’ve had a lot of them, mostly in the theater and that’s what I’m here in New York doing, a reading and it’s interesting to be in on a new play where you actually have input into the character.  It’s a very interesting character and so this is kind of what actors really long for. To create a character along with a playwright and a director. That’s where I am right now. I came to do a reading of it and when you do a reading it’s part of the developmental process of a play, not reading for the part. It’s a play called Love and Class in Connecticut. It’s a really interesting piece. We’ll see if it comes to fruition down the road. I will definitely keep you informed.

But I would have to say, probably the Tennessee Williams play Glass Menagerie. That character was really interesting for me to play because first of all I didn’t think I could do it. I didn’t think I had the right quality for it and then found that it was very close to a lot of aspects of my personality.

I’ve heard that at one time you dated Cary Grant?
Yes. In New York City. Oh my God, it was years ago. I was in my 20s. I was invited by somebody, back then they were trying to just get young, pretty girls at a party.  it was this very fancy, elegant party on the East side and he was there.  Somebody introduced me to him and we talked.  Of course I was starstruck.  He was in his 60s at that point and I was in my 20s. He was elegant and charming and to me, old.  He called me and invited me to dinner.  Of course when he called and it’s Cary Grant on the phone and I thought, OK who is it? Come on. Come on. Don’t play with me. At any rate, we went out a few times. He told me I shouldn’t be an actress, that they were all neurotic. So I thought well, I’m not listening to him. Katherine Hepburn’s neurotic?  He said, Oh my God. Of course.

Speaking of dating, are there any new men in Martha’s life this season?
I am hoping so. In fact I pitched the idea. I thought it would be fun, that Martha might have a crush on Beckett’s father. That would be fun I think, and he (Scott Paulin) is a really nice guy and a good actor.

As a whole, the show has such a strong online presence. Do you think that it influences actors and show creators?
Well, I hope not since I don’t have one. I know that they probably would be like it if I did that. You know, that’s an interesting question. First of all, I think the character is who she is.  She comes in, in this kind of wonderful, unique way. I think she’s a role model character for where women go in life as they move down the road and how to stay alive and relevant and not marginalized. So on that level, I think it would probably behoove me to be a little bit more current and tweet and Facebook and do all of those things because I do have thoughts and ideas that I think are unique to where I am on my own journey. It would be interesting to share.

I remember, years ago some actress, and it might have been Elizabeth Taylor turning 50. I looked and I went, 50 wow! That’s not so terrible. And now actresses that are turning 70 and still working or God love them, 80 and still work. That’s what I want to know about now. It can’t hurt at 40 to know that 70s not so horrible a place to get to. That’s a long winded answer by way of saying I don’t know whether I’ll do it and yes, I think I should. I think it would probably help the show and me, personally to do that.

Is there someone you haven’t worked with that you’d like to?
Oh, there’s so many people I haven’t worked with that I’d really like to. It would be a very long list. The first one that pops to my mind because I have seen him over the years and kind of know him marginally but have never worked with him but think he’s such a brilliant actor is Al Pacino. Isn’t’ that an odd one out of nowhere.  But there’s so many brilliant actors that I’d like to work with.  But he’s the first one who popped up in my computer brain.

What would you like to see for Martha this season and beyond?
I kind of like Martha’s direction. She is in my mind and was when I created her, an homage to my own mother who just died in November. I’ve thrown some of my mother’s lines like You is who you is and if you ain’t who you is, who is you? My mother would also sit on the park bench here in New York and if anybody sat down next to her she would find out who they were and help them with their lives whether they wanted it or not. So that’s a little bit of who Martha is to me. It’s really been a great joy and a gentle gift to be able to play her. Wherever she goes, it’s fun for me.

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