Julianna Margulies told EWthat she had read the final script several times before reaching out to you.
What did she say?
I think Im putting words in her mouth…
Michelle King:None of that was in her email!
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Did you have many people trying to tell you how they think the show should end?
Robert King:Yeah, and they were all my mother.
She obviously wanted Alicia to climb into the grave and sleep with Will Gardner.
We had big discussions in the writers room.
It was circled in green and it wasslap.
That was always something we always knew we were writing toward.
Do we want this?
Is another way to go?
Michelle King:The conversations remained with the people working on the show.
Alicias line in the finale, I love you forever.
Was that a gift for fans?
Robert King:Yeah, and because clearly the chemistry that Julianna Margulies and Josh Charles had was unparalleled.
The closest was probably between Julianna and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
They did love each other more than anybody else.
Josh and Julianna are that good.
When did the idea evolve to have Joshs ghost appear in the finale?
Michelle King:In our minds, it wasnt a ghost.
It was a fantasy in some sequences and in others, a memory.
You werent really meant to believe that Will Gardners ghost came back.
Robert King:We reached out to Josh Charles and he reached out to us around the same time.
As soon as we found out, we started moving in that direction.
That was a pitch with Josh and also that he would help Alicia change her thinking.
Have you gone on the internet in the last 24 hours?
Are you interested to see how people reacted to the finale?
It seems like people are right down the middle of the road.
Robert King:There are series endings that are probably a little bit easier to digest.
So I hope it is right down the middle.
That would be lovely.
How did famed attorney David Boies end up in this episode?
Robert King:He did [have a ball] because it was not a very serious arc.
Robert King:Ridley Scott was a bit like Charlie inCharlies Angels.
Hed ask if we were printing too dark.
It was usually about the visuals, and then in flattering terms about the complications of story telling.
I understood how the Scotts divided their company.
Tony handled other things and we were under Ridleys umbrella.
We only got a few emails from Tony.
It was almost always from Ridley.
He was just this gentlemens gentleman.
He watched every episode, no matter whether he was in Morocco or off in Iceland shooting.
He made like five movies while we made seven seasons.
I cannot wish anybody a better process than to be with Ridley Scott and David Zucker.
