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Jan 10, 2011 07:49AM
I liked that... seemed more real......
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Exclusive: Audra McDonald to Exit Private Practicefrom TVLine by Michael Ausiello
It looks like Private Practice‘s Addison is going to be in the market for a new BFF.
In what is by all indications is a completely amicable split, Audra McDonald is leaving the Thursday-night ABC drama at the end of the season to be closer to her family (including 10-year-old daughter Zoe) in New York. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of her Private Practice character, Naomi.
Huh? Allow me to explain.
Although the four-time Tony-winning powerhouse will be losing her series-regular status, there’s a very good chance she’ll be back in a guest-star capacity next season.
“I have spent four amazing years working with the best cast and crew on television at Private Practice,” McDonald tells TVLine exclusively. “Though I am stepping away from the series as a regular in order to spend more time in New York with my family, I am not closing the door on Private Practice or the character, Naomi. I am beyond grateful to [series creator] Shonda Rhimes, ABC, and the team behind the show.”
Rhimes in turn says, “We are so appreciative of Audra and her talents and look forward to having her return to Private Practice as often as possible. Audra has been a bicoastal commuter throughout our four seasons on the air, and, ultimately, we respect and appreciate her desire to spend more time with family in New York.”
McDonald’s departure shouldn’t come as a complete shock to fans. For the past two seasons, the actress’ presence on the show has been scaled back as producers strived to mitigate her hellish cross-country trek.
Not surprising. Despite Naomi now being the super-rich one in charge of both practices, I've thought they've been down playing her character. Plus they brought in little-Shepard as a spare BFF.But couldn't they just re-cast Naomi with the chick who originally played her in the pilot? LOL
Did anyone see Thursday's ep yet? I really liked it... lots of closure with many storylines. I'm happy with how it ended for Charlotte.
Yes I saw it. The only thing that bug me was the story with little Shepard. I buy her character being so concerned for the welfare of the baby. I kept waiting for something to come out explaining why.
I would have been concerned about the baby's well being too after watching her smother the baby and almost kill it.....
eh, I'm generally on the fence about him.
Private Practice scoop, please! — Rosie NATALIE: Shonda Rhimes promises that the show will have a relatively quiet finale, meaning no crazy women cutting babies out of bellies. Nevertheless, look out for a shocker in the last two minutes. Does this have anything to do with Audra McDonald's impending exit? "It does not," Rhimes insists. "She's been through a lot of hard times and I wanted a happy ending for her character so she's going to get it."
Speaking of last two minutes....what happened in the last 2 minutes of last week's episode. It ran over so my DVR cut it off.
Never mind....just fastforwarded through the episode online. I was kind of hoping they'd show Addison in a sparkly outfit twirling a baton.
Question: Could you, pretty please, give us something about the Private Practice finale? —CelineAusiello: Funny you should ask. Shonda Rhimes personally asked me to deliver a message to you about the May 19 climax. “You really need to make sure that the audience watches the last 30 seconds,” she told me. “If they don’t, they’re going to be very, very disappointed and disturbed.” You’ve been warned!
I loved this last week's episode! Addison's talk with the pregnant bartender on her choices was perfect and I cried when Naomi said she would take Betsy.... this was a good one....
And by the way, I LOVED what Charlotte and Cooper did when they hopped a flight to Vegas and got married by themselves!!!
I didn't read the spoiler. If Shonda & ABC want us to watch the last 30 seconds of ANY show then someone needs to stop making shows end at 10 seconds past the hour/half hour! So many of my shows, mainly ABC get that closer scene cut off because my DVR stops at the hour, not the hour and 10 seconds.
YEs, I loved Charlotte & Cooper taking off because no one was focusing on them on their wedding day. It was very them.I feel so bad for Betsy. I'm not sure I really get Naomi taking her. I know she & Del lived with Naomi for awhile but I really didn't get that either.
I'm tired of Addison's whining, and yet its realistic so I appreciate it. Waa waa, she wants her BFF back.....should have thought about that before sleeping with her ex. She really does need to get a man of her own. Maybe they will bring back sexy SWAT guy and they can fertilize her last egg.
LOVED sexy SWAT guy!!! He does need to make a comeback.... I think Naomi is everyone's mother figure in a way and remember Dell had that huge crush on her in the beginning? I think that morphed into her taking care of them and feeling responsible for them... and I think she feels she owes it to Dell to take care of his daughter now.
Yeah, your right. I'm just not feelin' much for Naomi since she is not around much any more.
Quite the cliffhanger with Pete on the finale! I like that they are dissolving the practice and starting fresh...... great episdode in lots of ways!
Wow. I saw a tweet or something from Shonda (maybe you posted it here) saying don't miss the last 90 seconds. I was hoping the show didn't go over in its timeslot and cause my DVR to miss the ending.It was a good ending. Though I'm not happy about Pete nor the fact that his poor son is right their watching. I watched that before bed and I had to stay up to watch something else to get that image out of my head. To upseting and heartbreaking for me.
I missed what happened with Cooper's patient. He did NOT euthanase her, right?
No he didn't but from what he said to Charlotte I think she died of her own accord. it sounded that way anyway. I know.... that image was horrible!! I know what you mean Roxy!!
I forget, was PP picked up for another season?
Yes it was.... I'm hoping someone finds Pete quick!
Perhaps Violet will turn around and come home! Lucas is too young to know about 911
For a stretch there, Private Practice fans were hearing plenty about the imminent arrival of new cast member Benjamin Bratt (if not a lick about the character he’d be playing). So it’d stand to reason if Addison (Kate Walsh) decided to take a cue from her fellow Oceansiders and cut bait, skip town and flit off to Fiji with the mystery man she met at the market and was quick to mack on.And yet she didn’t. Instead, Ad got as far as the airport gate before wheeling around and taking fresh stock of her life. Next thing you know, she’s curled up in bed with — knock me over with a feather — ex-ish lover Sam (Taye Diggs), talking about how their being together and her want for a child are not mutually exclusive.
“I love that moment,” series creator Shonda Rhimes says of Addison’s airport epiphany, which was shot in a stylized manner with passersby blurring around her. “I was on set making the pilot [for ABC's Scandal] and it was really late at night when I thought of that. I got really excited.”
Taking TVLine inside Addison’s head at that pivotal juncture, Rhimes says, “She has walked past Violet, who is at the airport running away from her possibilities, and she’s walked past Naomi, who is heading toward new possibilities [with fiancé Fife]…. She’s realizing that everybody is just walking away – and that’s not her.
Addison “could walk away from everything,” Rhimes continues, “or she could actually go back to the things that she loves, which are her job and Sam. That’s what she says at the beginning [of the episode], that [living for her job] is her thing. So without that, who is she? She stays true to who she is by going back to the practice and going back for Sam.”
With Bratt on board as a series regular, viewers (as well as Addison) have not seen the last of charming Conor by a long shot. With so much in flux in Addison’s life — namely, the investigation into Oceanside Wellness’ policies and the gang’s formation of a new practice — will the fact that she and her almost-fling conspicuously never shared names or occupations come back to ironically-slash-coincidentally haunt her?
“Yeah, I think so,” Rhimes teases. “I think it’s going to end up biting them in the butt pretty seriously.”
Question: Got any Private Practice scoop? —JamieAusiello: Something happens during the season premiere that tickles the funny bone of the man upstairs, because sources confirm that the title of the hour is “God Laughs.” I can’t imagine he’ll be giggling in the opening minutes, however. I hear the episode picks up right where the finale left off — with Pete on the floor clutching his chest.
Question: Got any Addison/Private Practice scoop? —JamieAusiello: Spoiler Alert: She wants a baby! Whether she’ll get one this season remains unclear. As far as Shonda Rhimes is concerned, the storyline is less about the destination than it is about the journey itself. “We’re going to watch a very interesting struggle this season with Addison pursuing her dreams to become a parent. It’s one that I don’t think I’ve seen on television before.”
I watched the season premier. ANyone else? The one thing I don't like about Private Practice is that they continually act as each other's doctors/surgeons in the OR. I swear Chandra doesn't let that happen all the time in Greys but she always does it in PP.
I think she does it in Grey's too doesn't she? I watched the premiere last night and it was just ok for me. I do like Benjamin Bratt's addition to the cast!
I thought in Grey's they were better at pulling out the people real close to the doc-in-trouble and putting in someone who was a little less close. They've got more docs to choose from on there.
The 2-hour mid-season episodes were good but I found the bit about Ryan quite predictable.
I haven't watched the two hour episode yet... I'll come back when I have! :) I'm loving Cooper's kid by the way.... GREAT choice to have Cooper be a dad on the writers' part.
I was wondering if they'd find a way for him to be a dad to an older kid. I kept waiting for him to end up adopting a patient or something. I also like that Charlotte has soften to him and is genuinely enjoying having him around too.
I thought the 2 hour mid season finale was pretty powerful stuff... wow... I was blown away with Caterina Scorsone's acting. I also thought Ryan dying was predictable but she played her reaction to it so well.... great episode!Addison has to be pregnant with that sly little smirk on her face at the end.
Yes, she did do a great job. And even though you knew he was either going to die or things would not work out you found yourself kind of hoping they'd make it through rehab together.
I was hoping they could make it through rehab together... I felt bad for him.... he seemed just as lost as she is in life.
I just watched last night's episode....Violet really needs to move out of that house. It has an shit ton of bad Karma.
I'm behind on Grey's and this show... sounds like they were both good eps though!
Did Cooper's ex die yet? I can't bare to watch those parts, especially with the kid. Notice how, damn it I can't remember anyone's names!, Taye Diggs character perked up when Amiela said Addison gave up on the child track. That whole thing turned my stomach. I hope she does not go back to him! I want her with the other guy!!
PS - I am glad Addison didn't get the jail-baby
For months, Private Practice fans have been fretting: What does the show’s move to Tuesdays at 10 mean for its chances of renewal?What it means, I have been repeatedly saying, is… you now need to watch the show Tuesdays at 10. ”That’s exactly right,” says cast member KaDee Strickland, echoing my stance.
Speaking with TVLine about the ABC drama’s Tuesday move (kicking off tonight), Strickland notes a bit of a double standard being expressed by those who see the arrival of Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal as a bad omen for her Grey’s Anatomy spin-off.
“It’s so funny to me, because we don’t ask that question about David Kelley, or J.J. Abrams, or other great show runners that have multiple things going on. So I don’t think we should ask that of Shonda,” opines the actress. “I’m not one to sit around and look for the ‘worst case scenario.’ We should sort of anticipate good news.”
If only, Strickland says, because Private Practice has quite a finale scheduled for May 15. “Because of the way the show ends this season, it feels to me that a renewal would best serve us,” she teases with a slightly wicked laugh. “It’s a helluva ending.”
I ran by Strickland a flurry of finale rumors I’ve been hearing, including that one character will be shot, while another lands in jail. “Some of that is rumor, honey, unless they’ve made some big script changes that I don’t know about!” she responded. “Shonda likes to reinvent her scripts often, and I think some of that stuff is based on ‘maybe’ ideas, but not all of them have come to fruition. And some of them have.”
In addition to what the finale has in store for Charlotte and Cooper (more on that in a moment,) Strickland is pulling for Season 6 in part “to see what Shonda does with Addison, because, boy, does she leave things in an interesting place for that character. It’s fascinating, I can tell you that.”
Rewinding a bit, tonight’s spring premiere finds Charlotte and Cooper doing their best to brace an in-denial Mason for his mother’s actual death, following Erica’s weeks of declining health. “One of the most interesting parts of this storyline for me, personally, is thinking about the way we all process death – and how do you do that when you’re a little boy?” says Strickland. “How do you do it when your mom has already lived through a miraculous surgery? How do you engage that child with reality?”
To that end, Charlotte will spend time with ailing Erica while Cooper tends to the son he never knew he had but now has embraced. “How we deal with both of those worlds and help each of them accept certain realities… is kind of a sticky situation,” Strickland reveals. “But it feels to me very real, like something that people watching the show will understand. That’s gut-wrenching for me as the actor to perform, knowing that so many people have been through a similar situation.”
Inevitably, Charlotte and Cooper will be left to parent Mason, and that turn of events – certainly something no one saw coming heading into this season, let alone a year ago – is another reason why Strickland is rooting for renewal.
“I would love to see where Shonda takes us after what’s she’s established between Charlotte and Cooper in Season 5,” she says. “I’d love to see what that looks like.”
*sigh* only Addison Montgomery would still look put together and gorgeous 5 weeks into bring home a new born. Amelia's baby...good lord! Could they come up with something worse to be wrong with it?!
I'm behind an episode still but just finished watching the one where Cooper's kid's mom dies. Oh wow.... cried and cried on that one....
