'St. Denis Medical' star Wendi McLendon-Covey, creators Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer, and more of the ER-set staff preview the NBC mockumentary.
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Case in point: While filming the pilot, Joyce tries to hype up her colleagues after a situation that she mismanaged damages staff morale — but sometimes words just aren't enough. So, improvising, McLendon-Covey did a cartwheel. "She just went for it — in heels!" Ledgin recalls, his eyes lighting up thinking about the scene. "The whole group of actors were like, 'Whoa!' And it was totally genuine. That's in the show now because it was just so surprising and weird.
That said, there is a word Spitzer knows Joyce would use. "Boss," he declares, attributing that all to his star. "The fact that brought this boss energy is something that I'm grateful that we have, even though it may not have exactly been what I was picturing originally."“You don't want to ever repeat what's been done, but there's only so many settings for shows out there," Spitzer says, reflecting on the genre he and Ledgin have made their playground.
While Tolman's recently promoted Alex is a comforting, kind presence in the emergency room, David Alan Grier's divorced Ron is wearied. Grier imagines Ron was once an enthusiastic, even radical, medical student and young surgeon who's just been beaten down the bureaucracy.
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