Memories from the Set: Thomas Sadoski on "The Newsroom"


A slow clap, please, for Don Keefer, the cable news executive producer who seemed like a huge jerk at the beginning of the HBO series but was one of its MVPs by the end. At least, that's how we saw it.

"The first chunk of the first season, he was definitely set up as the foil. You want Jim and Maggie to get together, and then here's this guy standing in the way — but what guy in the face of his girlfriend falling in love with another guy isn't going to be a little bit of an ass?" he reasons. "It made complete sense to me."

Sadoski adds that he never thought his character was that bad of a guy, "but it was fun to watch people's feelings on Don… evolve over the course of three seasons."





"The chair gag" — in which Don is forced to sit in a chair set way too short for his desk (and in which he eventually flips backwards) — "was fun. We had a really good time with that," Sadoski says, adding that he and series creator Aaron Sorkin share "a mutual appreciation for how funny it is to watch people slip on banana peels."

As for the Sloan-Don relationship: Sadoski said he and Olivia Munn were the last to know that their characters were going to become a pair. "Aaron kept us guessing all along," he remembers.

"Slowing stuff down and dragging it out really worked well, and we weren't entirely sure that it was ever going to come to fruition. We didn't know what was going to happen until we got the episode, looked and saw, 'Oh, there it is, OK. We're making out."

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