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The Good Wife Screen Captures

Hey everyone! Catching up on the last few weeks screen captures from The Good Wife:

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The Good Wife Postmortem: What’s Next for Will?

Great article from TVGuide and interview with the series creators Robert and Michelle King:

He survived the wrath of Peter Florrick and the State’s Attorney office, but Will Gardner (Josh Charles) was no match for the Illinois State Bar Association on Sunday’s episode of The Good Wife. Faced with the possibility of losing his law license forever, Will took responsibility for that $45,000 loan and agreed to a six-month suspension. So what’s next? How will his time away from the law change Will? How will Lockhart Gardner Lockhart and Associates, and Alicia (Julianna Margulies), change without him? TVGuide.com spoke with show bosses Robert and Michelle King to get our burning questions answered.

How long has this been in the works?
Robert King: We started this year thinking the theme would be about risk. It really turned fairly quickly into being about consequences. Our people have a lot of close scrapes and get off. This one felt like it should come down like a lot of bricks on Will’s head. And we didn’t want to just disbar him completely.

Why was it important for Will in particular to kind of face more serious consequences?
Michelle King: It felt real. There were big threats against Will and we wanted to show that yes, in fact he was going to feel the pain and there were going to be changes in his life and in the show.
Robert King: It’s like the first year when there was a competition between Cary and Alicia. There’s a term TV writers called ‘Schmuck Bait,’ which is the idea that there are some plots that you know aren’t going to happen, like Superman is not going to die. Having Cary actually be fired in Season 1 felt like we were taking these threats very seriously and avoiding ‘Schmuck Bait’. For Will, it felt like there really needed to be repercussions from it.

How will Will continue to be a part of the show if he can’t practice law or go to the firm?
Robert King: He’s in every episode, but it is a delicate dance. There is the dance of what you are allowed to do as a business partner in that firm, and what you’re prevented from doing as a lawyer. This is difficult for Will and he really wants to honor the suspension too.

Will viewers just see him at home or will he take up new hobbies or maybe a new job?
Robert King: We’re going to see his home and meet his sisters. This allows us to open up a little more of Will’s private life.

How is he going handle being away from the law in the long-term?
Robert King: In the episode, Diane says, ‘You can’t take six months. It will kill you.’ There’s a part of Will that wants to prove people wrong. That there is stuff that he has put aside. He really wants to take this seriously and rebuild his private life and who he is. It gives us a new flavor in who Will is.
But on the other hand, the high intensity work in the law is a drug. There are withdrawals associated with that. There is something built into Will that is competitive and that is also a corner cutter. Some of these things can’t be worked out of him and they’re just going to find other outlets.

Now that he has more free time, will there be new special someone in his life?
Michelle King: You’ll have to tune in to see.

How will Will’s absence affect Alicia?
Robert King: It will be interesting to see how much they can pivot to a new level in their friendships/working relationships especially with this monkey wrench thrown into Will’s life. Alicia feels guilty, but she does not want to stoke fires that could take her in a dangerous direction. You can prevent yourself from being put in places where you have that kind of emotional connection.
Michelle King: In addition to that, Alicia’s life gets more complicated because one of the main partners is on suspension and suddenly everyone in the firm has to take on more work including Alicia.

How else will his suspension affect the rest of the firm?
Robert King: Will was someone who carried quite a bit of the load for the firm. A lot of that gets disbursed and there’s also a power vacuum which draws a lot of interlopers. It makes things much more complicated. … We’re going to see David Lee, Julius Cain and Eli Gold butt heads because we just enjoy it. The three of them playing together is like watching the Marx Brothers.

How long will this suspension last on the show? Will this continue into next season?
Robert King: I think we’re going to suggest that the six months takes us through the end of this season.

How will the firm change during his sabbatical?
Robert King: The reality is that you have to fight your way back through because, in many ways, you’ve lost your clients to other lawyers. You don’t just come back with all the clout that you left with.

The Good Wife 3x15 Live From Damascus Screen Captures

So, what do you think is gonna happen to Will now?

Gallery Updates: Photoshoots

I’ve added 2 new photoshoots! Enjoy.

Entertainment Weekley February 17 - “On My Ipod”

Josh is featured on the February 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly, on the “On My Ipod” feature. Thanks Kelly from DanielGillies.org for the scan.

The Good Wife 3x14 - Another Ham Sandwich Screen Captures

Kalinda fooled me! And who else wants to punch Wendy? Here are caps from the episode!

The Good Wife 3x13 Bitcoin for Dummies Screen Captures

Screen captures from this week’s episode, sorry for being a bit late.

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‘Diane thinks I’m going too hard on you. Am I? Going too hard?’

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The Good Wife 3x12 - Alienation Of Affection Screen Captures

I’ve added screen captures from last night’s episode of The Good Wife.

The Good Wife Team on Football, Romance and How the Show Will End

CBS’ award-winning drama The Good Wife was the first panel to sell out at the star-heavy New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend this past Friday. One hot topic for stars Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, and executive producers Robert and Michelle King was the show’s move to Sundays this season, which hasn’t helped ratings. Especially frustrating was the fact that football often pushed back the start time of the drama — “Will football ever end?” Baranski moaned to an appreciative female-heavy audience.

Also up for discussion: the romance between Alicia and Will. When a fan expressed disappointment over their breakup, Charles said he believed the relationship ended “appropriately” and said he’s happy about the deepening friendship between Will and both Alicia and Diane. Baranski joked that she’d like a hot young love interest, while Margulies mentioned her shock at a letter she got from a disgruntled viewer who suggested they call the show The Good Slut because of Alicia’s affair. “Do they watch the show? Do they know that Peter not only slept with hookers but colleagues?” she said indignantly. (Margulies also shared that they dubbed the sex scenes ‘frucks.’)

The Kings revealed that both Diane and Carey (Matt Czuchry) were originally conceived to be adversaries of Alicia, but they “fell in love” with both the characters and actors and made them more likeable. That prompted a retort from Charles that they should hire more “a-holes.”

As for how much longer the stories of Lockhart Gardner will continue, Robert King said each year “is another chapter in Alicia’s life. We have an ending [to the series] in mind.” Though they all agree they’d like to keep trying cases for years to come. Asked Baranski: “Does it ever have to end?”

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People’s Sexiest Man Alive

Josh Charles in #7 on this year’s People’s Sexiest Man Alive List! Awesome!

“I’m not interested in playing a character and having him be called ‘likable,’” Charles, who plays enigmatic lawyer Will Gardner on The Good Wife, tells EW. It’s precisely that mystique that has made the 39-year-old actor so irresistible to Julianna Margulies’s character, Alicia – and to audiences who tune in Sundays to the hit CBS drama.

From: People.com

The Good Wife 3x11 - What Went Wrong Screen Captures

Screen captures from this week’s episode of The Good Wife “3x11 - What Went Wrong Screen”. The show will be on hiatus until January 15.

The Good Wife 3x10 Parenting Made Easy

These are caps from last week episode of The Good Wife “3x10 Parenting Made Easy”. Sorry about the delay!

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The Good Wife: Josh Charles talks the investigation’s new direction

If you haven’t seen the latest episode yet, beware of spoilers! Great article from EW.com:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think the idea to make Will’s pickup basketball game with fellow lawyers and judges the alleged center of a judicial bribery scheme was in the back of producers’ minds the first time we saw him on the court?
JOSH CHARLES: That’s a question for [creators] Robert and Michelle [King]. I don’t know if it was part of the grand master plan. My instinct would say that they strive really hard to make people’s backstories mirror what we’ve seen on the surface so that things don’t feel like they’re pulled from left field. I think if you go back and look at the way Will handles himself business-wise, and his relationship with Tony Goldwyn’s character [Judge Baxter] with gambling issues, you can sorta see that maybe this stuff was imagined. I think it makes sense for who Will is. There’s a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that’s willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices. When you ask the reasoning for Will not sharing [news of the investigation with Alicia], there is this belief in certain gamblers that one take can make this all go away. I think maybe he’s still hoping that that can happen with this, that maybe he won’t have to share the information with Alicia.

Diane said she knows it’s not true that he’s a part of this alleged judicial bribery scheme. Should viewers be so sure?
By saying this, I’m not answering that one way or the other. I think what’s so great about the show is when we read scripts and see certain twists and turns, we discuss them and three different people can have three different ideas. I’m talking about another episode [in particular] that we were just talking about recently and a scene we shot that had nothing to do with this. That’s what they do so well in the writing. People can interpret it how they want to in some ways, and that leaves stuff open for discussion. In that regard, I don’t think anything is that black and white. Will is not some prince. Across the board on this show, we’ve seen lawyers and investigators push things to the brink. So much of the show is seeing Alicia get her hands dirtier this year and step into this moral abyss of the legal world of Chicago. I wouldn’t presume to tell viewers to think anything other than just think whatever they think.

No one likes to be told what to do, even if the person doing the talking is right. What can you tease about how Will will react to Diane telling him to stop sleeping with Alicia and to make this investigation go away?
I think people should just keep tuning in. It’s only gonna get more interesting. What’s so nice is the family dynamic that a workplace creates. The dynamic of Diane and Will and their relationship and having her be the person, which is appropriate, to confront him about it. It works on different levels. It’s not only your partner, it’s also someone who you view as a friend, as an associate, as an ally. I think it did kind of rock Will a little bit, and I think what’s nice is to see Will pay the price a little bit personally and professionally. I’ll leave it at that.

I loved seeing Diane and Eli having a drink together. That’s what we’re used to seeing her do with Will. Should Will be nervous about them bonding?
Eli is just sort of hydrogen, and it’s interesting to see how he fits into the scheme of the office now that he’s in there [Laughs] and how he interacts with the other characters and certainly the partners. I don’t think Will feels threatened by that at this point. He’s got bigger fish to fry right now.

Let’s talk about Cary. How gung-ho do you think he is on this investigation now? It was hard to tell when Wendy was briefing him on the change in objective.
What I get out of it is that the character is conflicted. I don’t think Cary’s necessarily gung-ho to try to bring Will down. Obviously, we made the decision not to retain him, then tried to bring him back and that didn’t work. But I think what’s great for the character is that he’s been able to thrive over [at the state’s attorney’s office] and the dynamic between him and Peter working together. What’s cool about the show is that we have this great ensemble. There’s enough to give people so they feel like their characters are growing. It’s such a marathon, these nine months, that I welcome it.

Out of curiosity, how many takes did it take you to say the line, “We lose cheese, we lose our quarter” without laughing?
I think it would be safe to say that if you rounded up the crew and the rest of cast and asked them who’s the naughtiest when it comes to giggling while we’re shooting, it would probably be me. And I’m not saying that necessarily proudly, but I would say it’s a matter of fact. The idea that I don’t know if I even laughed at that line, I would say there’s a solid 70 percent chance that I did. [Laughs] It’s something I’m trying to work on, but certain people just make me laugh. I laugh with Jules. I laugh with Christine quite often. I laugh with Archie. I can’t help it. I certainly laughed a whole lot with Linda Emond [who played the military court judge]. It was so nice that they found a way to bring her and Patrick Breen’s characters back with the military court. I love the dynamic between the judge and Will.

Why did he repeat aloud the things she caught him whispering to Alicia? Did he think she’d respect him coming clean, or did he just think he had nothing else to lose?
I thought it was a genius bit of writing because I think Will was just like, Ah, f— it. This is not even worth engaging in, so I’m gonna try to embrace it with some humor, and hope that the humor will return some courtesy in the courtroom.

Last question: You just made People‘s Sexiest Man Alive issue. I worry that Will’s so occupied with other things right now, we’re not going to see another sex scene anytime soon. Will we?
I don’t know. I really can’t talk about that. There’s certainly enough sex on the show going around between the triangle over there in the state’s attorney’s office. I think we’re well-covered here on the show.

I love those scenes because everything’s always done right out of frame. The writers get away with so much because they do it smartly.
You have to. Again, you got to tip your hat to Robert and Michelle. There’s certain things that you can do on cable that you can’t do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit. And that was no pun intended, by the way. [Laughs] I think they do think outside the box quite a bit.