1 week Ago By Angelica Cheyenne
George Clooney knows how to save a life - and not just on television. Actress Julianna Margulies spoke on how her ER co-star helped her character Carol Hathaway not be killed off on the show in the planned pilot episode. Her losing her temper during her audition almost cost her the series.
"What happened was, I was in L.A. visiting a boyfriend," the Good Wife star said on the Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday.
She explained to show host Kelly Clarkson : "I had three auditions that day, and being that I grew up with a hippie, crazy, wonderful mother, who was always late...
I'm usually early, because I never want to keep anyone waiting." Brad Pitt makes bold fashion choice as he returns to LA after red carpet debut with Ines de Ramon George Clooney performs heroic act on Venice Film Festival red carpet as he shows off hidden talent However, at the audition, "there was probably 50 people in the waiting room and they were running two hours behind, and I was pissed." While Julianna started to angrily leave, she admitted that “the casting director called my name and I rolled my eyes like, 'Oh really'.
.. So I went in to audition for a recurring character, but I was so pissed off that I did it really rudely, a little New York anger.
” Julianna disclosed that she thought she “flunked” her audition and was “walking out” when the casting director stopped her. “I knew I'd flunked, and I walked out of the audition, and the casting director said, 'Hold on a minute, you're not right for that part,' and I was like, 'Ya think?' But they said, 'You might be right for this head nurse, Carol Hathaway, but she dies in the pilot. Could you come and read for that?' So I went back in and I read for Hathaway with a lot of attitude.
And I got the role!,” she revealed. Wanting to know more, Kelly asked Julianna about the fate of her character Carol. "She was gonna die? You were supposed to die? an inquisitive Kelly asked Julianna.
In hindsight, ER wouldn’t be the same if Julianna didn’t portray Carol, the primary love interest for George’s character Dr. Doug Ross. For the first six seasons, her character was involved in pivotal points within ER’s dynamic storyline; however that almost didn’t happen.
That’s because “the character dies in the pilot from a drug overdose” in the real pilot that first aired in September 1994. "But the way the director [Rob Holcomb] shot it," she divulged. “He did it through George Clooney's eyes, because they had been an old flame.
They did it through his eyes, so suddenly her death seemed really important to the audience watching for him that she not die. So I guess they do test audiences, and when the character died the whole audience went, 'Nooo!' Because they loved George Clooney so much, who doesn't.".
