Not one but two well-known actresses passed on playing "The Good Wife‘s" Alicia Florrick before Julianna Margulies got the part.

During a Hollywood Reporter roundtable, Margulies joked that she was the casting team’s “sloppy thirds” after both Helen Hunt and Ashley Judd turned down the role. “I wanted to hate it, because you know, ‘**** you! You didn’t want me to begin with,'” Margulies confessed.

“But my agent said a great thing: ‘No one will know when they watch this show that Helen Hunt was offered it before you.'”

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