SCHLAMME: When that decision was made, it was very quick. Bartlet, the now ex-president, would be in street clothes and a baseball cap and just blend into the crowd until we couldn't make him out anymore. Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, played throughout the run of the show by Bradley Whitford, was named after a character in Garry Trudeau's politically minded comic strip Doonesbury. I remember going to Tommy and saying to him, "The invisible carnage of the unf—ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out. SORKIN: Because our characters lived in a parallel universe, as opposed to the characters on Mad Men who live in historical fiction, our characters were the only ones not affected by 9/11, and that was a problem.

Moira Kelly is an American actor. And it was so much better than I would have imagined. Dee Dee Myers: When Aaron sent me the script for the pilot, he didn't actually own the title. And he goes, "Hey man, I just want to tell you, you're the reason I went into At the time, the actor's health was on the decline, and the creative team realized he wouldn't be up for the rigors of shooting a weekly series. That was always the Bermuda Triangle for us. The show managed to go on for five or six years, but nothing was the same after that. Clearly they didn't want to tell me because they were scared of my reaction to it. The first two or three years the crew would always be entertained by it. I really don't enjoy that part of the business. moment. again. The West Wing would only have worked if the actor portraying Josiah Bartlet was likable and possessed presidential gravitas. Do you want to go?" WHITFORD: I remember in Washington, when we shot the scene at the end of the first year. Thanks. In my mind, Nancy McNally [Anna Deavere Smith] was right when she said we'd find Zoey tied to a chair in the back of a muffler shop upstate. WHITFORD: The hours on that show were so bad. The night before the meeting, there were some friends over at my house, and at some point [Akiva Goldsman and I] slipped downstairs to sneak a cigarette. And in 2020, the cast will come together once again in service of an election, when A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote hits HBO Max. That first season more than half the But while the pilot did okay with focus groups in general, it performed very well with certain demographics. We were doing Sports Night and The West Wing at the same time, and Disney and Warners are five minutes apart. In March I went to Tommy with a sketch of an idea I had for the second-season premiere and he was pretty startled because he was used to getting information about an episode two days in advance and not six months. Just imagine. Richard Schiff, from left, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly and the late John Spencer starred in "The West Wing" on NBC. Plenty of actors came and went from the series over its seven-year run, but nonetheless, The West Wing had one of the most impressive and carefully crafted ensembles in TV history. In 1999 it was the height of the dot com boom, Janel Moloney came in to read for C.J., but when it became clear that Allison was going to get the part, we asked her if she'd like to help us out and play the relatively thankless role of Donna [Josh's assistant] because who knows? MALINA: I would, with great frequency, find my way into Brad's trailer when he wasn't there, just to see what I could do. The network said, "We probably want to have more of him.". Somebody says something the wrong way and I'm off on a 45-minute laughing binge that the crew starts hating me for.

I walked up to a priest who was standing nearby and said, "Excuse me, Father? They were about to role the credits and I caught Jimmy whispering to Richard Schiff, "I'll give you $5,000 if you smash that cake into Josh's face." A version of this story first appeared in the May 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. And John said, "We've got a deal.". And then I was a pallbearer at his funeral. And as The West Wing recycled the set from The American President, another political program recycled props and decorations from The West Wing. We were all interviewed together, and at the end there was a cake for each actor with our names on it. That's what happened. Being conscious that I already had eight mouths to feed I didn't SORKIN: We shot the service at the National Cathedral, and during rehearsals there were a number of clergy standing around watching. We didn't understand it, we didn't want it to happen and there was nothing we could do about it.

In my mind we'd explore all those things over the course of one long night-into-day-into-night at the White House. Allison Janney: I told everyone when Gail showed up, I said, "I know Gail's going to be with us for the Aaron learned the first year not to put all of us in a scene there, and if you watch the show, after the first year you saw less and less of all of us in the Oval.

The presidential work chambers weren't purpose built for the show, but instead, the room was on loan from Castle Rock Entertainment, which made the set for the 1995 movie The American President (which coincidentally was written by Sorkin). I'm not even kidding! We also read Hal Holbrook and John Cullum, and they were both great, but one day John Wells called and said, "What about Martin Sheen?" I told him I wasn't going to be doing a series and that I was meeting with John to meet John — I wanted to hear stories about China Beach and ER, and I especially wanted to hear about his years as stage manager for A Chorus Line. When we were shooting Noël, Yo-Yo Ma comes out and starts improvising on his cello and Dulé gets It was a test. of course it was a giant hit. How did the show's writers get rid of the Mandy character? Tommy, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. 1 About 2 Starring 3 Cast 4 Politics vs. fiction 5 Storylines 5.1 Post-Sorkin 6 Awards 7 Episodes 8 Media 9 Links When the erudite Democrat Josiah "Jed" Bartlet is elected U.S. president, he installs his administration. Moira Kelly (born March 6, 1968) is an American actress. And finally, Danica McKellar portrayed public relations writer Elsie Snuffin in eight episodes of The West Wing in 2002 and 2003. It's a sweet life you have ahead of you." From 1999 to 2006, when America optimistically stood at the beginning of a new millennium, The West Wing offered a utopian but still highly dramatic look at what democracy could be. John got down to business and said, "What do you want to do?" The network greenlit the show, realizing it could sell ad time to free-spending dot com bubble companies.

so people with home internet access were a valuable demographic to reach.

Many of the best moments of Toby talking to C.J. we're going to start up again." Broadway Bowling League, which is about as glamorous as it sounds. I decided that's what happened to Zoey but we wouldn't know that until the start of next season. never having met him before. So when Rob Lowe is in the Roosevelt Room giving the lecture to the young kids and then goes out with Leo's daughter, In 2012, the cast shot a four-minute video to promote Michigan judicial candidate Bridget Mary McCormack, sister of West Wing cast member Mary McCormack. She was like, "What Stage 18, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. WELLS: I couldn't get my mind around how to do the show without him. Fortunately, our children are still standing, though my three still call it "the West Wing years." With Yo-Yo Ma! that we'd all voted for her, but she was considered the very best. It was only after telling Martin that he might be taking a supporting actor nomination away from John, Richard, Brad or Dule that he agreed.

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