Julianna Margulies is getting honest about her pay.
In an interview with Deadline, Margulies spoke about her former role on the CBS show “The Good WIfe” and explained why she hasn’t appeared on the spinoff, “The Good Fight,” which airs on CBS All Access.
Margulies said she wanted to appear on the show, but “CBS wouldn’t pay me.” In fact, the the showrunners had her appearance all figured out.
“The showrunners had found a nice way to reintroduce my character, a story that was to span three episodes. I was really excited about the idea, but CBS refused to pay my (ask).”
She added, “To be perfectly honest, I was shocked. I was more surprised than hurt. I thought, what are you worth? If you are worthless, if you are not valued for your work, then what’s the point?”
Pay issues may not have been the sole reason for Margulies’ absence from “The Good Fight,” with Robert King, the co-showrunner of both “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” telling the Television Critics Association’s winter tour in January that reintroducing Margulies’ character of Alicia Florrick into “The Good Fight” would negatively color the finale of “The Good Wife.”
“You know what? The only worry we have about bringing Alicia Florrick back in some way is it ends the story again, and it just feels like an asterisk on an asterisk on an asterisk,” he said. “This year we were thinking, ‘OK. Maybe we’ll make a big episode of it. Maybe she’ll be at the resistance and Diane and her have to face each other.’ But it always felt like, ‘OK. Then that’s the end of the story.’ I don’t know. It just you’re always looking at something, going, ‘I don’t know why that doesn’t look right, but it just doesn’t look right.’ ”
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