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« Thread Started on Nov 2, 2009, 4:54pm »

The firs part of interview

http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb0l5f_ally-mcbeal-reunion_shortfilms

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #1 on Nov 3, 2009, 12:07am »

Thanks, luci. Seeing them all together makes me want to cry I miss Ally so much.

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« Reply #2 on Nov 3, 2009, 7:19am »

Yourwelcome!
Me too! I hope in a new great movie for the right end of Ally Mcbeal's story.

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #3 on Nov 3, 2009, 5:55pm »

Thanks, Luci!

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #4 on Nov 4, 2009, 5:48pm »

Yourwelcome!!!
This is the second part of interview, I think there are other parts but they don't upload on internet.
http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb11eg_ally-mcbeal-reunion2_shortfilms

Can I ask you a favour? Can you transcript the interview (first and second :-[

), I can read well english but I can't understand when the people speak so fast.

I you can of course, If you have this patience and time.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #5 on Nov 5, 2009, 3:06pm »

thanks a million luci.....very cool!

I was really happy to see that Lisa Nicole Carson looked and sounded so well.

especially after hearing that she was ill! They all looked and sounded great...i know it was to promote the DVD but it would be very cool if they would consider a reunion movie...one can always hope

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #6 on Nov 5, 2009, 6:26pm »

LUCI!

I ask this favor on luci's behalf...
can someone help her with this?

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #7 on Nov 9, 2009, 7:20am »

Thanks photo.

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #8 on Nov 9, 2009, 6:35pm »

Luci, if you give me a day or 2 I can do this for you if no one does it before me

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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #9 on Nov 9, 2009, 7:59pm »

Uaoh!!! Thanks Hayley. It would be an honor for me, the script from the Admin.
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Re: Good Morning America
« Reply #10 on Nov 9, 2009, 9:49pm »

No problem!! Here you go, I didn't want you to have to wait. My apologies for any typo's, it's nearly 3am!

Part One:

Host: Ally McBeal, the quirky show about a young single woman working at a eccentric law firm in Boston. Well for the first time, the entire Emmy winning series is out on DVD. So we brought the cast back together for a reunion and none other than Tom Bergeron caught up with Calista Flockhart who played Ally as you know, along with the shows fabulous creator David E Kelley. Also on hand here in Los Angeles, other important members of the cast: Courtney Thorne Smith, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, and Jane Krakowski joins in the fun from here in New York.

Voice Over: Ally McBeal hit close to home for many single career women searching for love , dreaming of motherhood, while toying with an overactive imagination.
Ally, played by Calista Flockhart, worked at a law firm with ex-boyfriend Billy. It was frequently awkward since Bily married, not Ally, but Georgia. The quirky, comedic drama took us all the way from the court room, to that famous unisex bathroom. With a complicated character who made Time magazine famously ask "Is Feminism Dead?". Now 7 years after the series wrapped, the original cast is back for their very first reunion ever.

Host: You haven't seen each other for a while and you're all having this kind of emotional reunion kind of thing.

David E Kelley: It is a little surreal I think, we;re seeing each other, a lot of us, for the first time in many years. Fortunately we have happy memories, so it's a fun occasion.

Host: Now, Calista, do you find that you immediately are drawn to some more than others?

Calista: No, you know, I have an affection for every single one of them. I don't think that I'm more drawn to ....well maybe I am more drawn to Peter.

Courtney: I was just excited to see everybody, and I didn't have any contact information. The first thing I did was get everybody's numbers. They're such funny, fun interesting people, that they were a ball.

Host: Why do you think that people responded to Ally that much?

Calista: She was searching for her soul mate and she was passionate about that search and I think that is the plight of a lot of young women. You know, they want to be career women, but they wanna have a family, they wanna find they love and they wanna have babies and how do you kind of do all that in this crazy world that we live in

Host: That dancing baby, I would imagine, represented things she yearned for?

Calista: I think it was her biological clock. It was representative of that tick. I thought. But I might have gotten it wrong.

Host: For you and Gil, you had to devote a relationship than had spanned a life time, so I would imagine that of everybody, that was probably the most difficult dynamic to get to, or was it? Was instant chemistry there, or did you loathe each other?

Calista: Well I didn't loathe him, but I can't speak for Gil.

Gil: Well I didn't loathe her either, in fact, I knew Calista a little bit in New York and liked her very much and it just felt really easy.

Calista: Whenever I did watch an episode, I always would say 'My God, I actually really believe we love each other, that's so weird'. But it's sort of true, it sort of worked.

Courney: It was hard to play for 3 years, the married woman. Because I feel like the audience really sort of wanted Ally and Billy to end up together and it was hard to know that. It was like I always sort of felt that, I felt that in my life because you play it day after day after day. The sort of unwanted wife. Ow God it's all coming back.

Host: There's nothing better than two women knocked out.

Calista: At least we had out lipstick on.

Host: Jane, is it true that you actually took the face bra home at the end of the series?

Jane: I did take a face bra home. I'm probably gonna get in trouble now with David Kelley. I think everyone was allowed to take something off of the set when the series ended.

Cast: No! (Calista: she stole it!)

Host: You were the least eccentric.

Lisa: Well that's a testimony to what a good actress I am

Host: Because you're the most eccentric in real....ok, there you go

Host: Vonda, how did you music come to play such an important role in the show?

Vonda: I was doing a gig in LA and my friend David came down, you know, to see me play and the songs I think resonated with what he was formulating at the time which was this show about lawyers, Ally McBeal.

Jane: You know, the show changed all of our lives. There's no other way to say it.We became known around the world for that show. Days that were magical were either days where many of us were in the unisex bathroom or to the club that was fictionally downstairs from our office.

Host: You convince yourself that every project is wonderful and special and only in hindsight realize that sometimes you are right and sometimes you were wrong.

Calista: I think you know when things are really crappy, right from the very beginning.

Greg: I remember thinking this was, I love the actors and the writing was so great, so I was certain that were were doomed. It's usually the things that you love so deeply that don't get a chance to do, so it was such a gift that we got a chance to run with it.

Host: Does it get a little uncomfortable though as a series goes along and you see new characters being added. Does it make you kind of want to mark your territory a little bit more?

Greg: I'm the only one who actually did mark my territory. No it was great to have all those just fantastic people coming in.

Peter: I was in a war of egos with Barry White, I let him know where things stood.

Peter: It doesn't go on too long.

Part Two:

Host: It was inventive and it was a defining television show of it's time. We're talking Ally McBeal, the lawyer with the fantasy life, dealing with the struggles of being a single woman everyday. Twelve years after it's debut, five seasons are out on DVD and this morning, Tom Bergeron continues his conversation with the star Calista Flockhart and the shows creator David E Kelley.

Host: Calista, what did it feel like for you as an actress who's portraying a character. At one point Ally McBeal is on the cover of Time magazine next to Betty Friedan , Gloria Steinem, and Susan Anthony with the headline "Is Feminism Dead?" How did that feel?

Calista: I think that the point that they were trying to make, there was a modern feminist woman to look towards and in some way it was oddly flattering that Ally McBeal was who were are now looking at. However, I also thought that this was a fictional television character and to compare her with Susan Anthony is slightly ludicrous and not really a fair comparison.

Host: To have a hit show I think you have to have, in most cases anyway, a strong anchor and certainly Calista, as Ally, was that. What was the quality, as the person casting the role, that she brought to it that made it a slam dunk to you?

David: Well she had to have an emotional depth obviously. Had to be funny and had to be dramatic.

Host: After Billy dies, of course, then you're faced David, with bringing in somebody else as a love interest and did it I think, masterfully with Robert Downey Jr. At a time, in all candor, in his career and personal life, when it was a bit of a risk I think it's safe to say, right?
We have a clip of Ally and Robert Downey Jr's character....

Calista: I was just looking at my hair...

Host: What? You don't like your hair during this period?

Calista: Good God!

Calista: Ally was, she was , you know she was criticized for being self absorbed and unabashedly self absorbed actually, and she was, but I always found her to be so authentic and imaginative and you know, she didn't really have a sensor. And I think people liked that about her and wished that they could be more like Ally because she was sort of outspoken and said what she felt and she did have a lot of good friends and she was a good friend and it was just like this great world to live in. Anything could kind of go.

Host: There's a wonderful scene where Georgia says "what makes your problems bigger"...

Host: The way it was.

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