AfterEllen interview with Robert King re: Kalinda
Just spotted this on AfterEllen, though it was from 8/5/11... Creator Robert Kings shared some thoughts and plans for Kalinda for next season...
Direct LINK to original AE post:
or just the pertinent SNIPPET .
Quote from AE's Trish Bendix:
...If there's one show I can't wait to see come back on, it's The Good Wife. Could creator Robert King tell me anything to tide me over? Oh yes - yes, he can. He was not afraid to tell me how he felt about Kelli Giddish getting cast on Law & Order: SVU, thus not having the time and ability to be Kalinda's bed partner anymore.
"This one was even worse [than losing Jill Flint] because we had a very extraordinary first three episodes involving Kelli Giddish," Robert said. "What we're hoping - and don't tell Kelli Giddish this, but you can print it - that she fails there miserably so she'll come back to us."
But they also have a Plan B. "Our hope is to get Aubrey Dollar back - she was on as a nurse last year - as part of that. We're also looking to cast someone else as someone with Kalinda. Kelli Giddish brought a really different energy and one of the things that made that work was they were so different and you never really got a sense that Kelli Giddish being beholden to Archie [Panchabi] and Archie had so much fun playing with her because they were both equals. We are looking for somebody else. Kalinda's really going to come to the forefront this year in her own right, but her friendship with Alicia is the core story this year."
Speaking of that currently strained friendship, will Kalinda and Alicia be able to work out their differences this year?
"In the first episode, they're kind of slapped awake. ... There's a sense they're not as powerful a team. So can you work with someone who was a friend and work just as well? They're both adults, they're both trying to do their best, but also, Kalinda begins to enjoy working with Eli's side of the company, partly because of the difficulty with working with Alicia," Robert said. "So Eli helps us in house because he creates this whole other world for Kalinda to research scandals and things like that."
Direct LINK to original AE post:
or just the pertinent SNIPPET .
Quote from AE's Trish Bendix:
...If there's one show I can't wait to see come back on, it's The Good Wife. Could creator Robert King tell me anything to tide me over? Oh yes - yes, he can. He was not afraid to tell me how he felt about Kelli Giddish getting cast on Law & Order: SVU, thus not having the time and ability to be Kalinda's bed partner anymore.
"This one was even worse [than losing Jill Flint] because we had a very extraordinary first three episodes involving Kelli Giddish," Robert said. "What we're hoping - and don't tell Kelli Giddish this, but you can print it - that she fails there miserably so she'll come back to us."
But they also have a Plan B. "Our hope is to get Aubrey Dollar back - she was on as a nurse last year - as part of that. We're also looking to cast someone else as someone with Kalinda. Kelli Giddish brought a really different energy and one of the things that made that work was they were so different and you never really got a sense that Kelli Giddish being beholden to Archie [Panchabi] and Archie had so much fun playing with her because they were both equals. We are looking for somebody else. Kalinda's really going to come to the forefront this year in her own right, but her friendship with Alicia is the core story this year."
Speaking of that currently strained friendship, will Kalinda and Alicia be able to work out their differences this year?
"In the first episode, they're kind of slapped awake. ... There's a sense they're not as powerful a team. So can you work with someone who was a friend and work just as well? They're both adults, they're both trying to do their best, but also, Kalinda begins to enjoy working with Eli's side of the company, partly because of the difficulty with working with Alicia," Robert said. "So Eli helps us in house because he creates this whole other world for Kalinda to research scandals and things like that."