We Have Been Obsessed With Marissa Since 'The Good Wife'
Meet Sarah Steele, the fabulous actress who has been bringing Marissa Gold to lifestyles since 'The Good Wife.' Plus, where else can you see Sarah Steele?
Ever since we first met her in The Good Wife as the outspoken daughter of Alan Cumming's Eli Gold, we've been fairly obsessed with The Good Fight's spunky Marissa Gold, and have loved observing her climb the ranks as an investigator over the last 4 seasons.
In truth, we were to begin with undecided she would make it to the Christine Baranski spinoff, taking into account most of her position in The Good Wife involved being Alicia's famed "body woman." But when creators Robert and Michelle King requested her to go back for The Good Fight, our prayers were answered and fortuitously, the actress couldn't turn down the offer.
Since reprising her role for the by-product, we've gotten to see Marissa transfer out of her father's shadow and into the function of Diane's secretary, in the end turning into an investigator alongside Nyambi Nymabi's Jay Dipersia.
Keep studying to learn more about Marissa Gold's personality, and about Sarah Steele, the actress who plays her.
Marissa Gold wasn't in the beginning meant to be an ordinary character.
In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, actress Sarah Steele explains how "amazing" it is that her personality, which used to be originally supposed to appear for handiest two episodes, evolved right into a full-fledged sequence common.
"I auditioned for [The Good Wife] my junior year in college and at the time I auditioned for it, it was only supposed to be two episodes of introducing this character of Alan Cumming's daughter. I went in and there was no discussion of, who is she?" Sarah landed the part, filmed her two episodes, and went on with her lifestyles.
"I was a fan of the show," she provides, however wasn't anticipating her personality to make a go back. "I thought, 'OK, that was a great job.' And then I got to have this much more major arc than I had anticipated on The Good Wife and now I'm getting to carry it through as a full-fledged character on this show. I feel like it's been a totally unconventional way of becoming a series regular on a show."
Sarah Steele on being the display's "anti-Kalinda."
Sarah unearths that the Kings noticed Marissa's role as being reverse from The Good Wife's original investigator Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi). "[Marissa] has a way of getting information out of people that is very different from Kalina," Sarah explains.
"Kalinda is sneaky and mysterious and Marissa is very open and is easily underestimated and people sort of tell her things sometimes without even realizing that they've done it because she's easy to talk to," Sarah continues. "That was sort of the discussion that we had when we were first talking."
"I was definitely intimidated," Sarah says of taking on this role of new investigator, where she'd inevitably be compared to Kalinda, who got here before.
"I loved Kalinda, but that's why it was comforting to me in that conversation I had with them that the idea is not for Marissa to be Kalinda. The idea is for her to very much be her own person and I do think that it's a very smart move in that you do trust Marissa to get to the heart of things."
"It's super fun to play a woman like that on TV," Sarah provides.
Where else can you see Sarah?
"I, for a long time, dealt with Hollywood not knowing what to do with me," the 31-year-old actress says to All Arts. Sarah got her breakout position in 2004's Spanglish, then went directly to act in Law & Order, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, and Nurse Jackie before landing the position of Marissa Gold.
The Columbia graduate may be a theater actress, and starred within the Tony Award-winning play The Humans at the same time as to filming her first season of The Good Fight.
Follow her on Instagram where she stocks behind the scenes photos of her time on the CBS hit, in addition to amusing peeks into her non-public life.
The Good Fight is streaming on CBS All Access. New episodes premiere on Thursdays.
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