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Spoilers forThe Good Fightseason six, episode four,The End of Eli Gold.
Youve never heard me swear before?
Arent you in for a treat!
I called someone a taint lick, which didnt make it, Cumming told Vulture over the phone.
Hes mostly made peace with having a Jackie O moment instead.
The first word you say onThe Good Fightis motherfucker.
It must have been nice to actually say fuck as Eli.It was so great.
One of the good things aboutThe Good Fightis seeingthe Kingsbe unleashed from the confines of connection TV.
There was a lot of Suck my dick as well, which didnt make it.
I thought that would be a great thing to do.
The studio wont let us, and one of the producers cried when they read it.
So then I didnt die.
And I was so looking forward to dying!
I cant remember, but he was going to go!
He wouldnt be able to come back anyway.
Initially, I was disappointed that I didnt die, but then I loved my Jackie O moment.
Its funny; it was sort of like putting on an old suit that still fits you.
You know how to do this, and it all still makes sense, even though it was different.
Now there were many, many more people of color, both on the crew and in the cast.
I think it was brilliant to come back and see how the Kings shifted that dynamic.
Did they offer more this time around?Well, they paid the rate.
It was a win-win situation.
It makes sense that she might go off and do that.
It also makes sense that he might be in jail.
I could feel a collective clutching of pearls around the country as I said that stuff.
Its deadening, and theres all that legalese.
Julianna and Christine were always like, You little bitch!
and Id be like, Im going to the country, bye!
because thats my favorite thing from lawyer shows.
And I got to say that in these episodes ofThe Good Fight!
I say it in my real life now.
When people are being boring or something Objection!
But I think its more of the tender things that stuck with me.
With Sarah or when America Ferrera was in it and there was a near-relationship that didnt quite work out.
I loved the scene when he toldAlicia he deleted the voicemail and she threw all the plates at him.
but it lasts so long and it has such a big impact on your life.
I love Eli, and its been such an amazing thing to do.
So it felt like,Oh, maybe its not coming to an end.
Maybe you shouldnt attempt to end things.
Then the ADs would go, Oh, sorry, Alan, there was something wrong in the gate.
We have to go again.
And Id be like, Ah, nuh-uh.
But I didnt do that this time!
Which is also sort of because I got COVID while I was filming the first episode.
In the swearing scene, I definitely had COVID.
Well see, but it was a great ride whatever happens.
I play a character thats well, I play a butcher, and Kristin Chenoweth plays his lady.
I do a lot of mincing menacingly around with a knife.
I have a great chopping song.
But I love a part where you have to look worse when you go into makeup.
Ive still got the suit.
Sometimes at parties I walk upstairs and people are like, Whats with the suit?
and then I just pull it away!
