If it hadn’t been for George Clooney, Julianna Margulies won’t have stayed on ER previous the primary episode. And if it hadn’t been for Margulies’ perspective, she won’t have appeared on the NBCmedical drama in any respect.
Margulies detailed her ER hiring in an look on The Kelly Clarkson Present on Friday, November 8. Through the sit-down, the Emmy winner advised host Kelly Clarkson she traveled from New York Metropolis to Los Angeles and received to her ER audition early however was pissed off to be taught the casting administrators had been working late.
“I had two different auditions afterwards, and there [were] most likely 50 individuals within the ready room, and so they had been working two hours behind, and I used to be pissed,” she stated. “I used to be like, ‘I’m gonna be late for my subsequent auditions, this isn’t OK, overlook it.’ And I truly, like, an hour or two [later], I stood up, and I used to be strolling out. And the casting director known as my identify. … I rolled my eyes, like, ‘Oh, actually?’”
Margulies stated that she was auditioning for a recurring character on the present. “However I used to be so pissed off that I did it actually rudely, [with] slightly New York anger,” she stated. “I knew I’d flunked, and I walked out of the audition, and the casting director stated, ‘Maintain on a minute, you’re not proper for that half.’ And I used to be like, ‘You suppose?’ And he stated, ‘You could be proper for this head nurse, Carol Hathaway, however she dies within the pilot. However may you come and skim for that?’ So I went again in, and I learn for Hathaway with plenty of perspective. And I received the position!”
Clarkson was astounded to listen to that Carol Hathaway was meant to die in that first episode. And as Margulies defined, it was the audiences’ good will towards Clooney, the actor behind Dr. Doug Ross, that stored Carol alive.
“The character dies within the pilot from a drug overdose,” Margulies stated. “However the way in which the director shot it — he was nice, Rod Holcomb, who handed away final 12 months — he did it via George Clooney’s eyes, as a result of … he was an outdated flame of hers.”
And for take a look at audiences rooting for Clooney, it turned “actually necessary” that Carol not die, Margulies defined “The entire viewers went, ‘No!’” she recalled. “As a result of they cherished George Clooney a lot — who doesn’t?”
Sherry Stringfield, who performed Dr. Susan Lewis on the present, additionally helped maintain Carol alive. “After I get introduced in on the gurney, she for some motive [put] her clipboard to her mouth when she stated, ‘She’s braindead.’ So that you don’t see it!” Margulies stated with amusing. “They simply looped totally different traces in saying ‘She’s gonna be OK’ or no matter, and so they introduced me again to life.”