How do you make a TV show about marriage when you’re actually married? Let TheGoodWife and TheGoodFight’s Michelle and Robert King tell you
Michelle and Robert King. Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images How do you make a TV show about marriage when you’re actually married? Let Michelle and Robert King, married couple of 31 years and co-creators and showrunners of CBS’s The Good Wife and its CBS All Access spinoff, The Good Fight tell you.Michelle King: That is actually not accurate. In writing the show, we almost never disagree about big stuff. If we’re having an argument, it’s over the tiniest, smallest detail.
Robert: So let’s move to the misdemeanors, Michelle. There was an episode of The Good Wife where … what’s the actress’s name?Robert: Melissa George gets pregnant. Alan Cumming asks what the name of the baby is, and she says, “Peter.” It was my idea that she was impregnated by Peter Bogdanovich. Michelle, I don’t want to put words in your mouth —Robert: Julianna Margulies sided with Michelle. She said, “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
2. Easy on the sex. I fucking hate when married women brag about how much sex they’re having. That’s one of my pet hates. First of all, they’re all fucking liars. I went on a hen weekend once. There were 10 or 12 women in the room, and literally, there was only one woman who was having regular sex with her husband. It was so honest — everyone was just like, “Fuck it. That’s just how it is.” In our show, we really tried [to show that].
3. Your darkest moments are the most relatable. There’s a thirst for “no bullshit.” Rob and I used to have this fear: What if no one else feels or does these things? The response will be, “You’re monsters.” But it’s surprising how many monsters there are out there — the number of people who say, “Thank you. I thought I was a terrible mother or a bad partner or a shit wife.”
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