...but why must the show go on?

[selenak]

Am I ever glad I abandoned The Good Wife and my emotional investment in same before all of this went down, because the latest PR attempt to deal with a certain actors-in-the-same-room related disaster completely backfires as the Kings attempt to deflect the questions as if they'd never done an interview before. Seriously, guys, "no comment" would

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[selenak]

Re: meta movie about tv show, I can think at least of one: Galaxy Quest, of course! :)

re: Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson, if we're talking Abrams shows, you can add the fact that during the shooting of Alias, Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan split up, she got together with Ben Afflek and had her first child during the last season. Vaughn, Vartan's character, was my least favourite character, but I don't recall Vartan pulling any stunts like refusing to shoot scenes together etc. in what even if the split was amiable must have been strained relations.

re: how common feuds are, I'm sure they happen a lot, especially in the hectic climate of tv shooting with hard working conditions. But it strikes me as pretty rare for the producers to allow it to affect a central storyline like the way this appears to have. And then it surely always depends on whether the feuding actors are both leads or not, etc. I remember watching the pilot of American Gothic on dvd with the audio commentary of the producers, one of whom was then co-producing

[selenak]

No, I wouldn't be shocked, because I am aware of this and have been for the last twenty years. So is about 90% of the tv audience, I'd wager. Which is part of why the Kings' statements in this interview came across as so patronzing and ridiculous. The problem of applying this to the Alicia-Kalinda case is that when season 6 started (which was when people in the media began to comment on this), the two actresses hadn't shared a single scene for 30 something episodes. (In the sense of being in the same room together, not in the sense of phonecalls etc. filmed separately.) When the character was written out and there still wasn't an actually filmed-together scene, the conclusion became pretty much inevitable that there was a personal problem. Archie Panjabi's statement, when questioned, was:

“You know, I can’t answer that,” she replied, when Us asked whether the final scene was shot in person with Margulies. “It’s not fair for me to answer those decisions. As much as I want to. But those decisions are made by the producers. I’m not