Dan Bucatinsky Looks Back on "Scandal"

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Memories From the Set: Dan Bucatinsky on "Scandal"


Can you imagine Bucatinsky as the ABC drama's Huck or David Rosen? Neither could the show's Powers That Be. (He auditioned for both roles).

"I knew I wasn't right, but I loved the material so much," he says.



Soon enough, he got a chance to play James Novak, the beleaguered — and ultimately, murdered — husband of Chief of Staff Cyrus Beene. He remembers his character's death episode — which was shot out of order — as rather trying, both from an emotional and a laundry standpoint.

"I still have tank tops and underwear that are covered in blood that represent that night on Scandal," he says, laughing.



Bucatinsky also had to scrub all of Dead James' carnage and dirt off him between scenes, and the only place available to do so was a mobile dressing room used by the actress who plays Sally Langston.

"It bonded me to Kate Burton forever," he says. "I was like, 'I was naked in your trailer.'"

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