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Apr 29, 2012 07:03PM
I couldn't watch the parts with Coopers kid. I had to skip it. Far to gut wrenching and heartbreaking for me.
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I'm glad... I've gotten hooked on this show.
This is one of my favorite shows... I really enjoy it.
Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake!! Pleeeeaaaaase don't be a fool Addy!
Oh what a GREAT finale! and yes, I agree with you too Roxy: JAKE! JAKE! JAKE! It was sweet of Sam though. He just needed time to process it all and wrap his head around it but Jake is SOOOO smoldering HOT. Hard choice! LOLAmelia was amazing in this episode. I cried my eyes out. I'm also glad Pete did the right thing in his decision that landed him in jail but I'm also glad he did the right thing and cooperated so he could come home too.
I was pissed at Pete for not thinking about his family at a time when that is what he and Violet so desperately need. I am glad to see him do the right thing by his family in the end.
Tim Daly is checking out of Private Practice.The actor announced late Tuesday that series creator Shonda Rhimes opted not to pick up his contract option for the ABC medical soap’s upcoming sixth (and likely final) season.
In a somewhat terse statement posted on Twitter, Daly said, “Wonderful fans of PPP. Shonda informed my agent today that Pete won’t be returning for season 6. It was a great 5 yrs. R.I.P. Pete Wilder.”
Coincidentally, just hours earlier TVLine floated the possibility of Private Practice bidding farewell to Daly’s Pete, who was jailed in the season finale for compassionately ending the life of a patient kept alive by machines.
Daly was likely the victim of cost cutting. As you’ll recall, PPP‘s renewal came down to the wire earlier this month as both sides haggled over budget-related issues.
I heard that his morning. So much for Pete doing the right thing. I guess he is going back to jail.
If Private Practice carries on beyond next season it will likely do so without leading lady Kate Walsh.The actress plans to depart the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff at the conclusion of the just-ordered 13-episode sixth season, our sister site Deadline reports.
It’s not clear if ABC and series creator Shonda Rhimes would keep the show going sans Walsh, but network execs stopped short of declaring the forthcoming season the show’s last.
The news comes just days after Walsh’s co-star, Tim Daly, announced on Twitter that he would not be returning in the fall.
And here comes a year of contract/salary talks.
I have a feeling this won't be renewed after this season and that makes me sad because I really do like this show.
You're probably right. I just hope they figure that out early so there can be some closure at the end of the show.
Private Practice creator Shonda Rhimes tells me that with series star Kate Walsh committed to exiting the series after just 13 more episodes, she is going for broke. "The writers and I have approached this season as a no-holds-barred, all bets off season," she says. Yet that 13th episode isn't necessarily being planned as the series finale. Rather, Rhimes tells me, "I've been asked by [Disney] and [ABC] to come up with ideas. I've been percolating on this for a while and my thing is this: if I come up with something that I am excited and thrilled about and feels really creative and right, then that's how we're going to go."And if she doesn't? "I don't want to continue to just continue," says Rhimes, who also runs Grey's Anatomy and Scandal while developing other shows for her Shondaland production company. "I'm busy. I have other jobs. I want to continue only if we have something exciting to write."
What Rhimes and her writing staff are already genuinely excited about is the new form of storytelling they've planned to give the series a jump-start. "Any episodes we've ever wanted to do we're doing," says Rhimes. "Any idea we ever had we're playing. Every single episode will be a special episode and none will seem like your typical episode of Private Practice. No two will even seem alike. It's really freeing and the actors are really energized."
While Rhimes is describing Grey's Anatomy's ninth season as the "season of romance," the producer has dubbed Private's upcoming year as "the Rashomon season [a reference to the classic 1950 Japanese film], where time has no meaning, stories overlap one another and everyone has a point of view." She says the idea began when they started asking themselves, "what if we weren't bound by the regular rules of our television season? What could we do then?" When Rhimes sent the Private cast an e-mail teasing her radical plans, several actors wrote back to say, "I don't know what the hell this means — but I'm excited!" Everyone, says Rhimes, "is game!"
So what can we expect? "We're going to be doing some episodes that are just focused on one character — seeing the entire world through one person's eyes," she previews. "We'll get a taste of this in the season premiere, with each act focusing on a different character. And the second episode all takes place outside the Practice with almost nothing medical. We have some really spectacular fun things planned."
The premiere episode will follow Grey's Anatomy's lead and time jump two to three months after the Grey's plane crash. And speaking of that horrific plane crash, might Walsh's Addison be impacted by the impending departure — perhaps death? — of former love Dr. Mark Sloane, with Eric Dane set to leave Grey's after just a few episodes? That got a firm "no comment" from the keeper of the secrets."If you never watched Private Practice before this is the time to watch it because this is when stuff's going to get real and good," promises Rhimes. "And if you have watched a long time, I think you're going to be fairly shocked."
Question: Will Addison choose Sam or Jake on Private Practice? —KrissyAusiello: We won’t find out until the very end of the season premiere. “We pick up three months later with her decision having been clearly made, but we don’t know what that is until the end of the episode,” reveals Jake’s portrayer, Benjamin Bratt. “You see Sam Bennett without clothes in one bedroom and you see [Jake] waking in another bedroom and you don’t [immediately] know where these characters are.” Addison isn’t the only one character dealt a curveball in the Sept. 25 opener. “Everybody has a huge, huge revelation in that episode or [receives] information that’s life-changing,” previews leading lady Kate Walsh. “It’s really good.”
Question: Every week I make the same the request and I’m hoping this will be the week it’s granted. Do you have any Private Practice scoop on Charlotte and Cooper? —KritiAusiello: Yep. Apparently, they’ll be unrecognizable when Season 6 starts up. “You’ve never seen them like you’re going to see them this season,” promises KaDee Strickland, before adding with a laugh, “and you’ve seen them a lot of different ways and positions, honey, so this is all new.” Elaborates co-star Paul Adelstein: “They have a son now so everything that happens to them or everything they want to do in their lives, they have this residual and major effect on this child. I don’t think they’ve really maybe thought that one through.” Bonus scoop: I can exclusively confirm that the title of the season premiere is “Aftershock.”
PREVIOUSLY ON... | New mom Addison, who was in the midst of starting up something real with Jake, fielded a marriage proposal from sometime-beau Sam. Awkward. COMING UP NEXT | Picking up three months later, Addison's sticky sitch, says Kate Walsh, "will be resolved in the season opener (airing Tuesday, Sept. 25) – "and then every character has a huge revelation or gets information that's life-changing. It's really good!" For one, Tim Daly's exit from the show sets Violet and Lucas "on a really interesting and beautiful journey," says show boss Shonda Rhimes. Elsewhere, Paul Adelstein says Charlotte and Cooper realize that "everything that happens to them or everything they want to do in their lives has a residual effect on [Mason]," while Caterina Scorcese told us that Amelia has been "grieving the losses that she suffered, and finding new footing." But the overall twist for the new season is a Rashomon-style of storytelling, in which each episode, starting a few weeks in, is told through a different character's eyes. "It's a really cool idea," raves Adelstein.
TVLINE BONUS SPOILER | Rhimes is ruling out any Grey's Anatomy crossovers during Walsh's final, 13-episode run, but won't rule out the "possibility" of a wedding, for someone.
RETURN DATE | Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 10/9c (ABC)
Shonda Rhimes has taken her virtual scalpel and excised from the coming season of ABC’s Private Practice much of the B-story medical drama to make way for more personal stories and deliver a reformatted show that she likens to “13 little movies.”“I said that if we’re going to have 13 episodes this season, we’re going to make 13 little movies, as opposed to having the template of a fully procedural aspect,” the series’ creator told TVLine during a recent set visit. Meaning, “We’re trying to be really creative about how we tell these episodes. Like, there are no rules.”
As such (and as has been previously reported), starting a few episodes into Season 6, each Private Practice hour will focus on the viewpoint of one doctor, sometimes glimpsing previously told stories in a new way, Rashomon-style. “It’s a really cool idea,” attests Paul Adelstein. “You’ll see storylines from other episodes in the background, but from a new person’s perspective, so you see different things happen.”
The net result is a Private Practice season that, should it only run 13 episodes (through the end of Kate Walsh’s contract with the show), will come off as undeniably unique. “The show has a very different feel, and to be able to say that six years in is incredible,” notes KaDee Strickland. “It’s a feat, and that’s no joke.”
But first, Private Practice must pick up the pieces from the season finale, in which Addison fielded a marriage proposal from Sam just as she was about to dive into something with Jake, Pete was arrested for euthanizing a patient, and Amelia was reeling from birthing her ill-fated baby. Here’s what the series’ cast was able to reveal about the new season.
ADDISON, SAM AND JAKE (AND LI’L HENRY, TOO) | Expect to spend most of the premiere waiting to deduce which fella Addison chose. As Taye Diggs explains, “The episode is designed in a fashion where up until the end, you are literally teased so you only see a portion of what her decision was.” So, Benjamin Bratt adds, while you will spy “Sam without clothes in one bedroom, and see me walking into another bedroom, you won’t know where the characters are.” As for the little man in Ad’s life, “You’re definitely going to see Henry,” Walsh promises with a big smile. “That baby is so cute, and one of my favorite jobs is getting to play with him!”
VIOLET AND PETE (MINUS PETE) | With Tim Daly gone from the cast — and this being a Shonda show — all Amy Brenneman could reveal about the fall-out of Pete’s arrest is “it’s something that many, many people and many, many women have gone through… a moment where you get to tell a story that’s very universal…. It’s an all-new, brave world [for Violet].” Rhimes in turn teases “a really interesting and beautiful journey” for Brenneman’s character.
CHARLOTTE AND COOPER (AND MASON — DON’T FORGET MASON!) | All told, Strickland teases, “You’ve never seen [Charlotte and Cooper] like you’re going to see them this season — and you’ve seen them a lot of different ways and positions, honey!” (Hmm, is she alluding to the infamous 100th episode that alarmed Standards & Practices ?) On the assuredly G-rated side, Adelstein says that as Charlotte and Cooper settle into their roles as parents to young Mason, “[They realize] that everything that happens to them, everything they want to do in their lives, has a residual and major effect on this kid. I don’t think they’ve really thought that through until it really hits home.” One thing we know about the premiere is that Charlotte confides in her hubby a big secret. Could Mason be getting a sib? “It’s Private Practice, and she’s a double board-certified neonatal surgeon,” Strickland deflects. “There are always babies on this show!”
AMELIA AND SHELDON | Caterina Scorsone says that in the three months that have lapsed, Amelia “has been grieving the losses that she suffered last year and finding new footing… so she has emerged with a slightly different attitude.” Brian Benben meanwhile says, “There’s someone from Sheldon’s past that he’s sort of revisiting a relationship with, in a tangential way.”
THE GOODBYE GIRL | Walsh has left it entirely up to the boss how Addison will exit the series in Episode 13. After all, “Shonda and the rest of the writers have always had my back, so… I’ve always put my faith in them. I just trust that it will be really, really delicious.” And happy…? “Yeah, why not!” Walsh concurs. “Or whatever. I’m open to whatever!”
From Shonda Rimes:October 19, 2012I'm sad to say that Private Practice's run will end after episode 613 this season. There was a lot of discussion and debate but, in the end, the guys at the network and the studio and I all decided that Private Practice was reaching its finish line. Creatively, we are all extremely proud of the show and especially proud of this season -- which you will all soon discover is a creative renaissance. I can't wait for you to see it.
It's heartbreaking to end. Truly. I feel so lucky to write for these characters and tell these stories and I truly feel this show has taught me so much as a writer. And there's a family here, of crew and cast, people who have bonded over these past five and a half seasons. It's rare for a show to go for more than 100 episodes and we are incredibly proud to have been such a show. And we're grateful to all of you for spending time with us for an hour every week for the last 6 years. It's meant the world.
Thank you.
I have personally loved the episodes this season..... what do you all think?
They've been good but as usual some of the topics with kids I just can't handle. I was just thinking with the last episode that on a drama level it's SO intense every episode, that I was considering giving it up. Though the writing and actin is wonderful it can be a downer for me. But I will stick it out for the rest of the season. I do hope they do a time jump at the end so we can see how things work out with Charlotte and the triplets.
I hope so too! Shonda Rimes did say that each episode would be like a mini movie and there would be lighthearted episodes and also ones that were dark. Maybe we're getting to the lighthearted ones soon.
Good episode this week. I like the new ER doc. Came off a little pompous but I still like him. I liked Amelia's comment at the end, that she is 100 years older. She looks really good though.
Are they going to follow up about that little girl or is that it?
In a way, it is incumbent upon Private Practice‘s Charlotte to keep the circle of life going by giving birth to her triplets just as the ABC drama concludes its run with, as has been announced, the 13th episode of this season. But now that there’s a “hard stop” in place, will she deliver in time or be left to gestate in perpetuity?TVLine spoke with KaDee Strickland about Charlotte’s amusingly ironic and increasingly expectant state, the other brand of high drama kicking off with this Tuesday’s episode (airing at 10/9c) and her feelings on Seaside Wellness and St. Ambrose closing their doors for good.
TVLINE | I was rounding up past quotes from you about Charlotte getting pregnant someday. There is: “I, KaDee, do believes she’s ready to have her own child. I want more of it!” And: “I think it would be so much fun. Can you imagine Charlotte pregnant?!” And now… here you are.
Three’s the charm! [Laughs] Of course, Shonda Rhimes will find a way to take what one might consider a conventional opportunity for a couple and turn it into the most unique, incredibly interesting circumstance. It’s pretty good stuff.
TVLINE | How hard was it not to spill the beans to the press at the 100th episode party?
Absolutely terrible. You know me, I get very excited about my storylines. It’s like, “What else is here for me to talk about? Nothing, because [the pregnancy] is all-consuming for Charlotte this season.” So yeah, that was a tough day – but in a good way.
TVLINE | Charlotte had that great line, “When I said I didn’t want to have any children, what I really meant was, ‘I want all of the children.’”
Yes! And we on the show use that line in our personal lives now. That line, “I didn’t want ___, I want all of ___”? You can fill in the blanks with a number of things and have it be a really fun game.
TVLINE | Speaking of Episode 100: Do you by chance know exactly why Standards & Practices pushed back on Shonda ? Was it the drugs, the pedophile…?
I don’t know the full ins-and-outs, but certainly when one portrays marijuana, you have to go through some hoops to make sure you’re getting all sides of the argument. So she did not advocate [drug use], nor did she diminish the circumstances with which it pushed the story forward, that whole Big Chill vibe. The pedophile story, meanwhile, is one that the country is definitely ready to see more of in lieu of the events of the past year with [disgraced Penn State football coach Jerry] Sandusky and other things, and I think it’s important to take a look at that culturally. And that storyline definitely impacts Sheldon a great deal. I’ll tell you right now, because I think Brian Benben is one of the most solid actors I’ve ever worked with: When you get to his episode [told from Sheldon's POV], it’s going to be phenomenal. You’ll finally get to see what our lovely Brian Benben is capable of, his entire bag of tricks.
TVLINE | What stages of pregnancy acceptance will Charlotte be moving through in the coming weeks?
I can say this: You haven’t lived until you’ve had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting. Shonda and the writers have done an absolutely wonderful job of keeping me on my toes with the triplet storyline.
TVLINE | Is there going to be a moment where the emotionality of it all wallops Charlotte, where the walls come tumbling down and she just kvells?
Have you ever seen a Shonda Rhimes show? [Laughs] I can’t truthfully answer that in fullness, but if I know Shonda and her writing, I’m going to be just as surprised as the audience to see what Charlotte does as we continue with her pregnancy. Trust me, I can’t wait to get my hands on that script.
TVLINE | OK, because as far as I can see, she’s still her snarktastic self at an Episode 8 birthing class.
Mmm-hmm. “Snarktastic” is exactly right!
TVLINE | This week’s episode looks pretty heavy-duty, when a little girl goes missing at St. Ambrose.
Oh my God, this episode…. It’s something we haven’t experienced [on Private Practice] for a long time, that ER madness – and all because it’s raining in Los Angeles. But if you’ve ever been to L.A., you know that all it takes is one day of rain to see why a hospital would run wild, because people don’t know how to drive or how to behave. They’ve taken that reality and turned it into an exceptional episode. And the actors that we got playing this family, I loved working with Charlie [Hofheimer, Mad Men] and Chryssie [Whitehead] — anybody watching this show can put themselves in the shoes of these parents. And that’s not the only thing that happens. We’ve hired a new doctor, played by Matt Long (Jack & Bobby), and they have a wonderful connection as fellow Southerners. It’s a great, interesting circumstance to have me on his good side.
TVLINE | What three words describe your feelings about Private Practice ending?
Bittersweet…. Emotional…. Forward-thinking. I saw this wonderful interview with Joshua Jackson, where he knew exactly how many episodes Fringe had left this season. I remember thinking, “I wish I knew,” because there’s something so comforting about that. We can give our appropriate goodbyes and know every day what we have left.
TVLINE | Do you know if Charlotte will give birth by the end of Episode 13?
I am pretty sure that everyone’s story is going to be tied up beautifully by the end of this. And I definitely think if you left me pregnant, you would have the audience’s heads exploding! That said, I wouldn’t expect anything to be uncomplicated just because the show is wrapping up. We haven’t gotten to the “Charlotte [POV] Episode,” so I don’t know what the plans are for li’l ol’ me, but Paul [Adelstein] and I just did a phenomenal script. The “Cooper” [POV] script is gorgeous; I loved doing that show. And I did hear that we’re going to have a wrap party. I can’t imagine what a wrap party for six years of work is going to look like, but I bet it’s gonna be a helluva good time!
Two episodes for the price of one. I was pretty excited to find that on my DVR. Good episodes. I am enjoying the way she did this season, it's a lot less gut wrenching. Yes there are still moments that make you want to cry but not skip them because they are too hard. Yay Jake and Addison!!!!
I hope Cooper & Charlotte get a house. Do tired of seeing them I that apartment. There is no way they are not squished.
I have just started the second episode and I do agree Roxy... I am really loving this final season. I'm really going to miss this show a lot.
I'm really going to miss it more now. I hope they do an epilogue of sorts at the end, fast forwarding a few years to let us know how everyone makes out.
Yes! Am so happy they have remained comfortable with each other. Great relationship.
This Tuesday on Private Practice (ABC, 10/9c) it’s “Cooper’s Greatest Hits” as the winding-down medical drama presents an hour told from the perspective of Paul Adelstein‘s character.Specifically, Adelstein’s alter ego will break the fourth wall and share with the audience his inner monologue as he reflects on milestones throughout wife Charlotte’s pregnancy with not one, not two but three little ones.
Series boss Shonda Rhimes “told me probably around Episode 6, the way they were going to go” with the POV storytelling, Adelstein tells us. Faced with the most dialogue of his own seen in any script to date, “It was exciting,” he raves.
The Cooper-centric hour even revisits the moment, from this season’s premiere, that Charlotte first told her husband that they were expecting triplets. That required extreme attention to continuity, Adelstein says, since “instead of using clips [of the original scene] and trying to add to it, we reshot it [with Cooper's amusing asides to the camera]. It was fun to go back and do that.”
The episode, however, is far from all laughs. Rather, one of what Adelstein calls the marrieds’ “trivial fights” has an adverse effect on Charlotte, ultimately threatening the miracle going on inside her. There are some curve balls thrown,” the actor previews. “Until now they’ve been dealing with the ‘pedestrian stuff,’ getting ready to expand their family considerably, which of course has its own challenges. But then everything turns on a dime. Something comes up with the pregnancy that puts everything else on the backburner.”
Adelstein says the medical crisis is not fully resolved by hour’s end. But in the vein of better news, along the way, “The genders will be revealed” for all three Cooplets.
This crucible is but the latest one endured by Cooper and/or his lady love Charlotte over six seasons. And having weathered such storms together, Adelstein says his time alongside scene partner KaDee Strickland “will definitely be missed” as the series concludes with Episode 13.
“She’s so easy and fun and game to work with,” he says of Strickland. “You joke that people have ‘work husbands’ and ‘work wives,’ and we’re literally each other’s work husband and work wife, so we fall into the pattern…. We’ve been through the wringer together.”
After Private Practice wraps the series finale shooting this week, Adelstein says he “probably” will next set his sights on the coming pilot season. With the same gung-ho attitude that carried him from the role of Prison Break’s cunning Kellerman into Coop’s shoes, he says, “Let’s see what’s out there!”
It's a good season so far. You won't be disappointed by the up coming episodes.
Hmmm....my response above was because I thought I read you just started the season. Maybe that was in a different thread? My mind is such crap lately.
Hahaha. I just realized what I did. I was checking this mobiley and read the very first post in tr thread instead if the most recent. LOLI just watched the Cooper episode. Oh...my....god....he was so freaking cute! I could just eat up his excitement. I loved him talking to the camera!
Very interesting with the triplets.
Cooper's episode was SOOO good. He cracks me up!
Just watched Sheldon's episode. *sigh* this season is just so great.
Late in posting this (sorry!)Tonight on ABC’s Private Practice, it’s time to experience Charlotte’s POV — as static as it might seem, seeing as she is restricted to bed rest in the wake of delivering the first of her triplets. But being who she is, Charlotte will still crack the (figurative) whip at St. Ambrose, when she isn’t managing to trip the light fantastic while supine.
During a visit to TVLine’s Times Square offices, KaDee Strickland teased a surprise on tap for tonight, revealed how a “Crazy in Love” pop star helped Charlotte bust a move and pondered her Shonda Rhimes times past… and future?
TVLINE | How does it feel, doing this goodbye tour for the show?
Are you trying to make me cry? It’s incredible because it’s closure for me, in many ways. It won’t really be closure until January rolls around and I watch the finale — I’ll probably watch it a few times — but I certainly am grateful that I got to do this because, somehow, it helps me move forward.
TVLINE | Do you think the cast will have a finale viewing party of any kind?
We haven’t talked about that but it wouldn’t surprise me, if people are around. Tim Daly was unfortunately not able to come, because he was on the East Coast, but Audra [McDonald, Naomi] and Chris [Lowell, Dell] flew in for a cast dinner just before Thanksgiving. So, we all had our night together — dancing, dinner — and just whooped it up. You know it to the bone but when you break bread with these people and start talking about what’s happened in their lives since you started the show, you physically have evidence of how much a life has changed. I mean, Amy [Brenneman]’s son was 2. I bought a house. Paul [Adelstein] bought a house, and he’s got a daughter in his house now. Taye [Diggs] got a house, and he’s got a son. Caterina [Scorsone] got a house, she’s got a daughter now…. I mean, it’s all the sort of the stuff that dreams are made of, when you’re a professional actor. To go 111 episodes is such a huge milestone.
TVLINE | And it’s going out on such a high note. Paul’s episode was fantastic, and who’d have thought that one of the most romantic moments in the show’s history would go to Brian Benben?
It’s true; that gutted me. Sheldon has always been one of my favorite characters and I think Brian’s remarkable. I mean to watch him goof around and then go right into a scene is always something I can never get enough of.
TVLINE | So what’s the theme for the Charlotte episode?
Bed rest. It’s one of the most creative scripts, I think, because it’s also one of the most restrictive. We have four locations in the entire show. Most of them are in a NICU or in my hospital room. The other one is a dance floor, and then there’s one more surprise location — and it’s a surprise for Charlotte, so I won’t share it, but it’s a really lovely, lovely episode, in terms of what you’ve loved about the character for six seasons, every good and bad piece, showing its head in every moment. Plus it’s really fun in terms of the experience of having to portray something like that, when you are upside down at an angle, laying on your back most of the time. A lot of it takes place in voice-over, in my head, so not only are the dance sequences my imagination, but you hear my inner thoughts, too.
TVLINE | Speaking of the dance photos, one of our mutual Twitter followers suggested that you perhaps don’t have the best dance-floor moves…?
Well, I love to dance, but that doesn’t make me a dancer, and I was not experienced in these dances. There’s the tango, hip-hop, foxtrot, Bollywood, swing, tap… a little Martha Graham. It’s hilarious. These are not things that I have in my repertoire.
TVLINE | The hip-hop one may be my favorite, snapping the gum and all.
I watched a Beyonce video with Jay-Z in it, because I was trying to see male/female hip-hop dynamic, and I saw her popping gum and thought, “Oh, my God, I have to do that.” So in some takes it was full-blown bubble the whole time but I think they chose to go the other way.
TVLINE | Am I correct in predicting that Georgia — as in the episode title “Georgia on My Mind” — will be that first triplet’s name?
Oh, I don’t want to spoil your fun. You’ve got to watch!
TVLINE | Will all three of them have names by the end of the episode?
No. No. This episode is not the end of Charlotte’s pregnancy, by any stretch.
TVLINE | What can you say about the series finale (airing Jan. 22)?
You’ve got a lot of characters to wrap up, so there are a multitude of events that I think people will be surprised by and happy to see [including this wedding]. We also had the great fortune of having Audra come back, and it was like she never left, which was so beautiful. She walked on the set and we were like, “Oh, I’m sorry, you just racked up a bunch of Tonys. Don’t mind us.” [Laughs] That was hilarious to acknowledge, that this woman has continued to make history, a different history, while we were shooting the show. So it was great to have her back.
TVLINE | I asked Paul the flip side of this: What will you miss most about your “work husband”?
Being protected. I was very protected. He was very much a gentleman, especially in those early years. He always made sure that I was completely comfortable with a scene and that the crew was prepared to take care of me, because he treated me like he would want his wife treated on a set.
TVLINE | Did you grab anything from the set before wrapping?
I did. I took my Charlotte badge. And when [series creator] Shonda [Rhimes] came on the last day, I was like, “Who’s this person [in the ID photo]? Who is that?” Because it’s me with short bangs and all!
TVLINE | Are you going to miss having Shonda words coming out of your mouth?
I’m going to miss having Charlotte words coming out of my mouth. Certainly, when Shonda is at the helm of an episode, or Jennifer Cecil, or Barbie Kligman, there’s a real genuine articulation of that character that’s undeniable, and I am going to miss it. But who knows how long that’ll last? I mean, a girl could get hired again by this lady, if she’s lucky. Who knows?
TVLINE | “A girl could get hired again by this lady”? Is there a secret you’re keeping?
That’s not a secret I’m keeping. The truth is, I’m in a remarkably exciting time in my life. I’ve gotten very excited about what’s next for me and I’m not quite sure what that looks like just yet but it’s a wonderful thing to understand how fulfilling this kind of job can be and to live with a character for a period of time. It’s so vast and so present, the work that you have to do, that it’s exhausting and wonderful.
I can't believe they ended the episode where they did and I can't believe there are only 3 episodes left!!!
Anyone see the Oprah interview with Shonda Rimes? I thought it was interesting. It was mostly about her new show Scandal.
I didn't see that Kathy but I do love Scandal
What did you ladies think if the finale?
I still haven't watched the finale. I want to save it forever! LOL
