He gave her an emergency resuscitation.
Throughout a latest look on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Nov. 8, Julianna Margulies, 58, admitted that she practically botched her “ER” audition — and, after she bought forged, her character was alleged to die after only one episode till she bought some oblique assist from costar George Clooney.
“I had two other auditions afterwards, and there [were] probably 50 people in the waiting room, and they were running two hours behind, and I was pissed,” she defined.
“I was like, ‘I’m gonna be late for my next auditions, this is not OK, forget it.’ And I actually, like, an hour or two [later], I stood up, and I was walking out. And the casting director called my name. … I rolled my eyes, like, ‘Oh, really?’”
“The Good Wife” star mentioned that her angle was mistaken throughout her audition for the hit medical drama, which aired on NBC from 1994 to 2009.
“I was so pissed off that I did it really rudely, [with] a little New York anger,” she mentioned.
“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, ‘You think?’ And he said, ‘You might be right for this head nurse, Carol Hathaway, but she dies in the pilot. But 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!”
The Emmy-winning star revealed that her “ER” character, Carol Hathaway, was initially alleged to die in that first episode.
In accordance with Margulies, George Clooney, 63, who performed Dr. Doug Ross, not directly saved Carol and altered her destiny.
“The character dies in the pilot from a drug overdose,” Margulies mentioned.
“But the way the director shot it — he was great, Rod Holcomb, who passed away last year — he did it through George Clooney’s eyes, because … he was an old flame of hers.”
For the check audiences, it grew to become “really important” that Carol not die, Margulies mentioned.
“The whole audience went, ‘No!’” she recalled. “Because they loved George Clooney so much — who doesn’t?”
Margulies mentioned that Sherry Stringfield, who starred as Dr. Susan Lewis, additionally performed a job in altering Carol’s destiny.
“When I get brought in on the gurney, she for some reason [put] her clipboard to her mouth when she said, ‘She’s braindead.’ So you don’t see it!” Margulies mentioned. “They just looped different lines in saying ‘She’s gonna be OK’ or whatever, and they brought me back to life.”
