The Good Wife: Mar 11

I haven’t seen this week’s episode of The Good Wife because we are now so close to US airings, but this caught my eye on the Hollywood Reporter with most of the episode taking place inside Alicia’s mind:

“It was really hard,” Margulies told THR before the CBS drama’s PaleyFest panel. “There were so many [scenes that take place] in the mind: the campaign versus the law firm; Finn (Matthew Goode) versus Johnny Elfman (Steven Pasquale); watching Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) in bed with my husband [Chris Noth’s Peter] — there was so much going on, that if Robert hadn’t directed it, because he wrote it [too], I said I didn’t know who would be able to direct this.”

King’s intimacy with the work led to Margulies leaning on him during the episode’s filming. “What was fun, I finally said, ‘Robert, tell me what I’m doing. I have no idea!'” she laughed. “And he led me through the whole thing.”

Unfortunately, that led to an unexpected downside for King: “He said watching dailies, he heard more of his own voice than mine, which drove him nuts,” Margulies shared.

And once the process was done, Margulies could fully appreciate the experience of the hour. “It was actually really fun. It was an interesting exercise.”