If you are like me, then when you watched last week’s press conference with Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, it reminded you of the series premiere of The Good Wife. The stare that Huma gave her husband was the same murderous look that Alicia Florrick gave her cheating husband, Peter.
Yesterday at the CBS TCA Summer Press Tour Day, Julianna Marguiles was asked what she thought of the press conference and her answer was interesting. At first she described Huma’s expression that was like if looks could kill, “My initial thought was she had the exact look that I tried to capture in the pilot when you first meet the Florricks and you see her standing behind her disgraced man, which was that of it’s such a it’s sort of a soulless look, like she was looking down.” Then she added, “She was, her body was empty. Her soul was somewhere else, and she was just going through the motions, which is what I think we tried to do in the pilot where you actually go on automatic pilot, and you go where you are told to go, but it doesn’t mean that’s really your real reaction.”
Then she shared her thoughts relating to the disgraced Mayoral candidate’s wife, “She hasn’t been given a chance to react yet. And my initial thought as me was just complete compassion and empathy for her because I think people are so quick to judge.” Then she explained how Huma might be able to relate to character, “And having played this character now for four, going on five years, I have I see it differently. And I think it’s really dangerous, with everyone being able to comment on someone’s downfall can be very damaging. And there was a headline in a New York newspaper that said, you know, ‘Tips for Huma from Alicia Florrick.’ And it went into this whole, thing that we did in the pilot where Alicia talks to one of her clients and says, ‘Don’t go don’t read the paper. Don’t turn on the television. Just go back to work. Just bury your head, and don’t be a Teflon pan, basically.'” So how does the multi-Emmy winner feel about that? She explained, “And I felt proud for a minute that we were part of maybe a solution for someone who is going through something difficult, and I also feel slightly guilty that it really is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, in our next we are starting Season 5, and it feels brand new.”
A brand new episode of
The Good Wife will air on CBS September 29th at 9p. Will there be an Anthony Weiner/Huma Abedin episode? We will just have to tune into this critically acclaimed show, that will hit the 100 episode milestone this season, to find out.
