Carrie Preston Explains Why Elsbeth Carries So Many Bags & Why She's Sometimes Bagless!

Carrie Preston is revealing why Elsbeth Tascioni, the title character from the CBS hit Elsbeth, is always carrying so many bags.

If you don’t know, Elsbeth returns on Thursday, October 17 to CBS with brand new episodes weekly.

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Carrie explained, via Deadline, “She needs to always be carrying a bunch of things. We got very specific about what those bags were. She won’t carry a briefcase. She doesn’t think of herself in that way. They became a fun accessory. She has bags in her brain, she has Rolodexes in her brain. She’s picking out little things that she put there 20 years ago, and she’s like ‘I can use that here.’”

“The bags are [filled with] whatever she thinks she might need that day to help her with her work. I find it fascinating how many people are interested in what is in the bags. But are you interested in what is in her brain too?” she added.

However, there are times you won’t see Elsbeth with any bags. There’s a reason for that, too!

“I’ve made the choice in Elsbeth that once I have got a killer and I’m ready to go in and frame them, I don’t have the bags. You’ll notice in the show, in those final scenes when I come in to arrest the murderers, I don’t need those bags anymore,” she revealed.

Find out which actors are returning for season 2 of the show.