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JamesG · 07-05-2018, 06:18 PM

Julianna Margulies Reveals Why She Nixed "The Good Fight" Season 1 Guest Stint
by Michael Ausiello
July 5, 2018

"The Good Fight" wanted a piece of "The Good Wife". Julianna Margulies confirms to TVLine that she was invited to bring Alicia Florrick over to the CBS All Access spin-off during the series’ inaugural season, but she wasn’t quite ready to go there.

“I really didn’t want to do it when they asked me in the first season,” she recalls, “because I didn’t think that was fair to the series or Christine [Baranski[, Cush [Jumbo] and Rose [Leslie]. I felt like, ‘Get on your own two feet. Do your thing.’ Because if Alicia had come in, in the first season, it would have been all about Alicia and The Good Wife. And now it’s their show.”

Margulies, however, does not rule out a future cameo on "The Good Fight", which was recently renewed for a third season (to bow in early 2019).

Despite harboring “uncomfortable” feelings about “going backwards” in her career, the three-time Emmy winner — who’s currently starring in AMC’s new ultra dark dramedy "Dietland" — says, “I never say never to anything, because I think that’s silly.”

Case in point: She returned to "ER" for that show’s final season. “It was one week and George [Clooney] and I had a blast,” Margulies enthuses.

“It felt so comfortable to get back into that relationship and those clothes and those lines and let these characters — who were such a part of American culture — come back. So I would never say never because I loved going back to ER.”

Margulies watched "The Good Fight" pilot and thought it was “magnificent.” But she never made it to Episode 2 or beyond.

“I said to Robert and Michelle [King] recently that it’s hard for me to watch a law show right now, which is how I felt after ER,” she admits. “I couldn’t watch another medical show, because you go right back into the mechanics of shooting a show like that. It just takes you out of the show. I’ll binge watch it in a year or two.”

https://tvline.com/2018/07/05/the-go...rgulies-cameo/

07-05-2018, 06:18 PM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,045	Julianna Margulies on Why She Turned Down "The Good Fight" Appearance *Julianna Margulies Reveals Why She Nixed "The Good Fight" Season 1 Guest Stint* by Michael Ausiello July 5, 2018 "The Good Fight" wanted a piece of "The Good Wife". Julianna Margulies confirms to TVLine that she was invited to bring Alicia Florrick over to the CBS All Access spin-off during the series’ inaugural season, but she wasn’t quite ready to go there. “I really didn’t want to do it when they asked me in the first season,” she recalls, “because I didn’t think that was fair to the series or Christine [Baranski[, Cush [Jumbo] and Rose [Leslie]. I felt like, ‘Get on your own two feet. Do your thing.’ Because if Alicia had come in, in the first season, it would have been all about Alicia and The Good Wife. And now it’s their show.” Margulies, however, does not rule out a future cameo on "The Good Fight", which was recently renewed for a third season (to bow in early 2019). Despite harboring “uncomfortable” feelings about “going backwards” in her career, the three-time Emmy winner — who’s currently starring in AMC’s new ultra dark dramedy "Dietland" — says, “I never say never to anything, because I think that’s silly.” Case in point: She returned to "ER" for that show’s final season. “It was one week and George [Clooney] and I had a blast,” Margulies enthuses. “It felt so comfortable to get back into that relationship and those clothes and those lines and let these characters — who were such a part of American culture — come back. So I would never say never because I loved going back to ER.” Margulies watched "The Good Fight" pilot and thought it was “magnificent.” But she never made it to Episode 2 or beyond. “I said to Robert and Michelle [King] recently that it’s hard for me to watch a law show right now, which is how I felt after ER,” she admits. “I couldn’t watch another medical show, because you go right back into the mechanics of shooting a show like that. It just takes you out of the show. I’ll binge watch it in a year or two.” https://tvline.com/2018/07/05/the-go...rgulies-cameo/