Emmy award winning actress Kelly Preston First role as trial lawyer Elsbeth Tasconi good wife and continues to create popular characters good fight Now it’s the character’s own spin-off, Elsbeth. during an interview typePreston talks about the long run of the character, from guest star to lead, and how she developed her portrayal of Elsbeth over the years.
Preston said she rewatched her first performance as Elsbeth in 2017. good wife Prepare for spin-off. “I was on a guest side covering bigger stories, so I don’t know how far they encouraged me to go,” she recalls. “When they brought me back a few seasons later, I think we both found the flow of the character by then. Sex. The magic began to gel between the script and the actors.
Additionally, Preston noted that she was fascinated by the character’s “pause” that was written into the script. She continued:
“In the first few scripts, they just wrote the word ‘pause’ in parentheses, and I was more interested in the content of the pause than the content of the words. I started thinking, what happens during the pause? What if her What if there’s something burning in the brain that other people don’t know about? What if they think the exact opposite of what I’m trying to say?
“Then they stopped writing pauses, but I started figuring out where the twists and turns were. I started thinking about it almost like creating a map that I would follow: What am I thinking? What is my body doing? What am I saying? If those three things don’t line up, she’ll be fun to play and hopefully surprising to watch.
Although Preston has directed television shows before, including good fightshe admitted she didn’t think she could handle double duty Elsbethexplained, “I don’t know how someone who plays the lead can direct themselves. I guess it would make me feel crazy. I like to put myself into it if I can. I’m not saying that if we’re lucky enough to have this show In future seasons, I won’t think about it, but in this season, I’m just trying to do the best I can with Elsbeth Tassioni’s character.
