We’ve never really pegged Katherine as that type of femme fatale who can tempt you into her boudoir in a series of slow, sensual poses and stretches, without ever really looking you full in the face. But here she is pulling out her own version of the teasing coquette in a promotional inside spread for her new TV role…

Are you on slow burn yet?

“Smash,” a prime-time NBC soap, stars Debra Messing as a lyricist for a new Marilyn Monroe musical, veteran actress, Anjelica Huston, as a hard-driving Broadway producer, and McPhee as the sexy up-and-coming starlet who threatens to take over the show.

Oh, how we’d love to see that. Even her GQ spread looks like it’s all poised on the brink of a takeover with her silky red and black lingerie.  She also turns on the heat in a flimsy, falling-down white top inside an old-fashioned clawfoot tub.

Kind of blows all your past impressions of Katherine McPhee doesn’t it?

Photos Via GQ Magazine