Carrie Preston Looks Back on "The Good Wife"

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"I feel like I was the luckiest girl in the world that they came to me with that role," Carrie Preston says of being approached by "Good" universe masterminds Robert and Michelle King to play eccentric lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni on "The Good Wife" and, later, "The Good Fight".

"I got on the phone with Robert King, and he was saying, 'She's like a female Columbo,' and I didn't ever really watch Columbo, and so I was just like, 'Oh, okay. Got it.' I didn't quite know," she explains.

"I knew that Columbo was unorthodox in the way he did his work, and so I thought, 'Okay, so she's unorthodox. All right, so let me figure out what that is and what makes her tick.'"




Doing a one-off guest role was fine, but when the Kings invited her back for a full arc Preston says she had to go through a lot of "red tape" before HBO would allow her to appear on the CBS series at the same time.

"I'm forever grateful they said yes, because it turned into one of the most delicious and quirkiest and most unique characters that I've ever gotten to play. And then of course I was blessed with an Emmy award for it — and even in my Emmy acceptance speech I thanked the HBO because they lent me out to the show."

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