But when it came to POTUS himself Martin Sheen’s Josiah “Jed” Bartlet we took extra care.
“It’s the most satisfying thing I’ve ever done in my acting career,” he says.
“I always think of it with gratitude and humility.
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I’m often asked would I have done it if the president had been a Republican.
And they were going to lose as much as they were going to win.
Allison Janney (C.J.
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“I wish I could be C.J.
She’s a wonderful character, she’s not afraid to speak truth to power.
And it’s a great role to champion women.
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She’s such an amazing character.
She’s the one I most want to be like and who I’m most not like.”
Empowering people to vote, making it easier for people to vote, is a total no-brainer.
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I appreciate that,'“Bradley Whitfordrecalls.
And I said, ‘I don’t think that’s going to happen.’
It’s very easy to be cynical about politics.
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And what I’m proudest of is that the show is not cynical about public service.
“It was a very difficult acting job, and it was a painful one,” Schiff says.
I was always grateful that Allison, we had that connection.”
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Joey Lucas is a pollster.
In the history of television, there’s never been a deaf pollster.'
And he just happened to make her deaf and he was willing to think outside the box.
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And that’s what I loved about that character.
It was just who she was.”
“And she was born and I came back to work seven days later and everyone held her.
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I held a rosary that Martin gave me when I gave birth to her.
And then I came back and it was such a family.
And I still consider them my family.
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We’re still all in touch all the time.
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