Democratic campaign manager Eli Gould (Alan Cumming) made his debut on “The Good Fight” on Paramount+ in the last two episodes of Season 6, Chicago, to deal with difficult legal troubles after a right-wing prosecutor attempted to call him out. visited. for interference in the 2020 election. While he was in town, he attended a fundraiser for Dames, and was nearly killed when a man stepped out of a bathroom stall at the incident, shouted an anti-Semitic ridicule and shot Frank Landau, whom he had been accused of. The man had mistaken for gold. But according to Cumming, it was not the original version of the story by showrunner Robert and Michelle King.
“The original plan was even deeper. … Allie was going to die,” Cumming said, noting that she signed on to do two episodes (featuring her character, which viewers were first introduced to on CBS’s “The Good”. Wife”) was dying with Eli in another.
“He’s such a great writer, I was really thrilled to see how they would kill him,” Cumming said, referring to creators and executive producers Robert and Michelle King.
Cummings shot his first episode of the show, went on to do another, and when he returned, he learned that the original plan had been shelved.
“They called me and said, ‘Oh, Alan, we can’t kill you,'” he explained. The story Cumming heard was that a producer cried when they read the script that killed his character, so it was rewritten.
In the latest “Good Fight” episode, available to watch on the streamer now, it is Landau who died, brutally shot in front of Eli, who was the target. The horrific event deeply affected Allie, forcing her to reevaluate her life.
“I think it was such a good episode,” Cumming said. “It’s so well written and it’s also great that Allie made such a massive dent in her whole approach to life, and this great horrible thing happened to her. We actually did something like this.” Never seen happening. … and it’s great to play a character you know so well to suddenly be in such a position that they are absolutely at sea.”
It was his daughter, newly minted lawyer Marissa Gould (Sarah Steele) on the stand (she avoided questions, defended her father, and charmed the judge) who seemed to bring Allie back from a path of repentance and sacrifice. Was what it seemed. Inclination towards following the event. And just before that—before leaving town, he sat down for a heart-to-heart with Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranxi), who told him, “Finish your drink, stand up, pull yourself together, and there Go and kick some ass. This country is worth fighting for, it always was. And our enemies want to stop voting from happening. It’s not just torment, it’s the end of America, and we can’t let that happen.” Allie then says goodbye to her daughter, gets in a car and heads off to Washington, D.C. for her last appearance on the show, which is coming to a close with the finale of the current season.
“I think that’s also happening in an interesting way. [Eli Gold] “Maybe being this shark is going to put him off,” Cumming said. “I think the purpose of this happening to him was to say to people — to shock people into saying, ‘Let’s find another way before it’s too late. Let’s find a way to stop being this kind of partisan.’ Find a way out – and listen to each other a little bit.'”