Julianna Margulies Interview on Archie Panjabi ‘Good Wife’ Feud: Alicia, Kalinda | TVLine 

‘s Julianna Margulies is denying that real-life tensions between her and former co-star Archie Panjabi led to that years-long onscreen estrangement between their respective characters Alicia and Kalinda, as well as their infamous split-screened reunion.

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“Right, I’ve heard about [the feud]. Who says that? It’s totally gossip,” Margulies said in an interview with Vulture. “I heard that question had been asked to Robert King. There’s no story there, sorry … I actually had heard [that rumor] and I feel that it has been talked about and answered. I feel people just like to have gossip or make something into something that isn’t there. There’s no animosity on my part. It’s a shame, because I wonder if it was two men, when one finds out that he f—ed his best friend’s wife, if it would get that same attention, you know what I mean?”

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Margulies went on to suggest that it was Panjabi’s commitment to the BBC drama

 — and not an alleged feud — that led the two actresses to shoot last May’s anticipated Alicia-Kalinda reunion scene separately. “It was shot the way Robert wanted to shoot it, and the storyline, too,” she said. “You also have to remember, there’s difficulty … [Panjabi] was also doing another show, called The Fall. I went along with whatever Robert asked me to do and I did it happily.”

UPDATE: Panjabi has taken issue with Margulies’ claim that a scheduling conflict was behind the split-screen imbroglio, saying via Twitter…

http://t.co/7Ci8jY9lSf. @TheFallTV was not even in production at that time and I was in New York ready to film the scene!

Thoughts? Are you buying what Margulies is selling? Hit the comments!

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She’s lying through her teeth. She’s a great actress but she’s a one nasty person.

Do you know her personally to verify that she is lying or do you just assume? There will always be people on the internet with no life that likes to keep the drama going, I guess your one.

I don’t know her but I know the production of The Fall wasn’t anywhere near when the final episodes of season 6 of The Good Wife were shot (at least 2-3 months apart in fact). That is a fact that can be easily looked up. So that part alone is a confirmed lie, sure the rest is no different.

I’ve heard even since her successful days on ER that JM was incredibly mean and difficult to work with. They’re both British, so maybe their attitudes were seen as haughty and difficult when in realty its a cultural thing. I was surprised to hear JM was from England but spent her formative years in the US.

First off, I was on the set of ER a great deal the first 5 years of the show. While Jules developed an ego (winning an Emmy right off the bat helped there) and started phoning it in for about a year (She’s admitted this publicly so don’t get your knickers in a twist), she was never known to be mean to people on set or in the production office.

Also, she was born in New York, to an American parents. She did a few years in the UK in her childhood, but is not British. Your information is off.

Not according to the TV critic gossip. I saw Kate Arthur say she has heard from multiple sources that Archie was horrible to the crew. I’m not saying JM is great but the people I a position to get the dirt seem to be saying AP is at least equally to blame in whatever situation developed.

Who cares if AP was horrible to the crew? Plenty of actors are terrible people yet somehow every other actor is able to get over it and be a professional. JM’s the only one of the two with the clout to diminish AP’s role and order the split-screen scene, so she’s the only one to blame for affecting our viewing experience which is all I care about.

I’m not saying she shouldn’t have been professional and done her job I was responding to the assertion that she is a nasty person when I have recently seen critics saying they heard the opposite from the people they asked about the situation. ::shrug::

That doesn’t make sense. She got along just fine with the rest of the cast. And if she was so terrible, then just fire her! Considering how they treated her character and how it affected the show’s quality, it would have been better.

Idk idk, just saying this is what I have seen TV critics saying to each other in conversations between eachother. Last week I saw one critic call JM a witch then two popped up to say they has heard the opposite about the feud situation. Obviously everyone was curious and after the kerffluffle they reached out to peole they knew who worked on the show and they heard not gr8 stuff about AP back. One critic was Kate Arthur you can check her Twitter feed. It was within the past week.

Not “TV critics”. Just one gossip rag and it fooled no one.

Also Gillian Anderson on the fall clearly doesn’t find her terrible. And Baranski and Archie met up in London over the break, and Matt loves Archie is always positive about her… that doesn’t exactly speak for her being horrible. Plus Archie unlike Julianna held no power in the show… she could easily have been fired and relased from her contract before time if they didn’t like working with her. Julianna couldn’t. The show couldn’t go on without her, she was made a producer she has a big ass agreement with CBS. She is the one with all the power in this Archie isn’t. Which is where it doesn’t make sense if Archie was the trouble maker.

Agree. LIAR! Just own up to it. There is nothing that says we have to love our coworkers.

But we do have to work with them in a professional manner. The fact that these two women could not put aside their differences to work side by side as they were paid generously to do…honestly it says a lot about both parties. And none of it positive. I believe all parties need to stop commenting on it at this point. It does neither of these women any good to keep rehashing, and airing their dirty laundry in public.

You blame both parties, while only one of those actresses had the power to enforce the split screen shenanigans. Also, Panjabi has the right to respond to the other actress’s blatant lie.

But your EP, it’s not like you don’t have any control. Really scheduling conflict ?

I don’t believe a word of what she says. Love her and the show, but nope, not buying it.

I have actually lost even more respect for her from this obvious lie. She should have just stayed quiet.

The Fall’s third season shot Dec-Jan and The Good Wife shot the final episode in April giving plenty of time to have shot this scene together. Nice try Juliana but maybe check your calendar the next time.

“It was shot the way Robert wanted to shoot it” Why on Earth would he want to shoot a scene where the two actors weren’t there at the same time? It’s not like they were standing face to face where the camera was over the shoulder. They were sitting beside each other.

She was a series regular on TGW first, so that would be a priority over her work on The Fall.

No, it wouldn’t. She wasn’t a cast member on TGW any longer. The Fall, the show she is actually still on, if it was in production (apparently wasn’t), would have taken priority.

Well Archie’s response just adds more confirmation for me that they didn’t get along (but in this case was willing to film something.) I remember someone had tweeted her last year as to why she wasn’t at the Paley event last season and she responded along the lines that she wasn’t even invited or asked to go. Something is definitely amiss here.

First the Kings call us stupid (“the bullets on the show aren’t real!”), now JM calls us sexist. What a lovely bunch of people. Oh and unless JM is implying that AP messed around with JM’s husband IRL, she is making no sense. We are well past the seasons-long break in their relationship, this is about one measly scene and has nothing to do with the fictional characters’ past betrayal.

Not buying JM’s version of events. Glad Archie spoke out and called out the bs.

Wow. I can’t believed she straight up lied like that. Or maybe the Kings have fed her lies so she has no idea nobody likes her. This whole story is such a mess. I don’t think I’ll be able to wait 20 years for a Lifetime Unauthorized movie.

Maybe this is and has been a publicity stunt performed by the King’s and CBS.

Enjoying this saga with a huge bowl of popcorn…

I’ve never even watched the show, and I agree. This is as interesting to read about as some shows are to watch. That said, what’s done is done, and they should just stop talking about it. Julianna Margulies is just digging a deeper hole, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they were milking it for publicity at least a little bit.

Ditto. It’s strange how she is the one keeping the “gossip” going.

I don’t understand why Archie has to air their personal dirty laundry in public. Just stay quiet about your behind-the-scenes personal issues. No one, in any industry, wants to hire someone who talks smack in public about her former colleagues.

please, JM coukd have handled it a thousand times better. Don’t say there is no animosity on MY part, don’t blame the showrunner, don’t lie about the fall production, etc.

Yes, if only we’d all shut up when a former colleague and friend lies about us in public.

I actually think Archie’s been unbelievably professional and deferential in this situation. She’s allowed the Kings and Marguilles to spin whatever preposterous stories they wanted…until JM put the blame entirely at her feet. That was, apparently, a bridge too far.

She *did* stay quiet until JM lied about the situation, come on.

This is getting truly silly. People are spending more time talking about an alleged feud than enjoying a truly great show.

Correction: A once great show, now reduced to this side-show where no-one seems to be honest. Except for Archie. More power to her! Glad she spoke out.

JM was doing damage control, and even then she couldn’t hide her snark saying “there is no animosity on my part”, instead of saying that she gets along just fine with everyone at the Good Wife. I love that Archie called her out on the lame excuse for doing the scene seperately.

Man that picture used shows just how bad the “split” screen scene was. If I watched the show I’d be more upset at how obvious it was.

The more anyone on this show talks about this the worse it gets. If I already didn’t think Julianna Margulies was unprofessional I sure do now Everything coming from everyone’s mouth , except Panjabi is a utter lie. The producers ” wanted” to shoot the scene that way? No way does a producer want to do split scenes unless they absolutely have to in which this case they did have to. You would think that this show would want to move on from this but I guess they want this story to go on and on. Will not be watching anything JM does anymore

Really! No feud Margulies must think the TGW fans are some dumb ass people if she thinks we believe that Archie Panjabi who has been filming the series since it first aired would miss her last scene she would ever shoot for the show. After reading about how that scene was shot I no longer watch TGW.

This might be more believable if they’d been in scenes together right up to that scene. But since they hadn’t shared the screen in over a year and a half, this is nothing but attempted spin. And blaming the fact the Kalinda slept with Peter is crap, since they had long since gotten over it and had some semblance of a friendship again. So, unless she means irl, that’s a load of trash too.

I’m glad that Archie responded with FACTS, and not these opinionated half-truths and BS double-speak. If The Fall was the reason Archie couldn’t shoot the final scene with JM, then how does she explain the 3.5 prior years where they never once shared a scene together?

Enough already. As though any of us really has any clue as to what happened. It is a good show, but how unfortunate that two fine actresses cannot keep their issues out of the press. Besides, why would we expect actors to be so well behaved? They are more often than not highly sensitive people whose workplace issues are a challenge. JM gave a pretty bogus response; AP did not need to stir it further by dignifying it with a comment. No one is showing much class in my estimation and we are not helping!!

Pretty obvious JM is the star here, and there can only be one prima donna on set, so JM wins. An obvious lie about Archie being busy just makes JM look like a liar and douche bag, not a problem for me as I stopped watching during the last season. It lost something, somewhere.

I used to care quite a lot about the feud, but not anymore. Deep down I realised that I am watching TGW for the story, not for the actors. When I watched the scene in question purely for the characters I realised the scene was actually pretty good and in character for both of them. I was sattisfied with it. That said, it’s obvious something is going on behind the screen and it hurts my eyes to see their current behavior. Ah well, they’re just actors. Pretty good actors.

Sorry, too little…and way too late! I won’t comment on the incident.

I have lost interest in the show and don’t plan to watch.

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