Memories from the Set: Bradley Whitford on "ER"


'Love's Labor Lost' was one of the most harrowing episodes of the NBC medical drama's entire 15-season run, and Whitford was part of it, playing the husband of a first-time mother who dies while giving birth on Mark Greene's watch.

Executive producer Steven Spielberg was on set during shooting -- "How am I supposed to act in front of Steven Spielberg?!" Whitford cries – and the whole endeavor "was really an emotional thing," he says.

"The end of that, where they cut out the sound, where Tony Edwards is coming to tell me that my wife has died and I'm holding the baby, it's one of the smartest editing things I've ever seen… We shot a lot of up-close stuff, me falling and stuff, but it's just so much more effective when it's silent."



A lot of expectant women apparently felt the same way, according to Whitford's sister, who worked at a birthing center at the time.

"She said that that episode traumatized a generation of mothers."

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