Julianna Marguliesis putting Carol Hathaway firmly in the past.
The actress, 55, shot down the idea of anERreboot in a new interview withWSJ. Magazinefor the publication’s Men’s Fall Fashion issue out Saturday.While Margulies played Hathaway — a nurse on the hit medical drama — for six seasons and returned for the series' final season, she isn’t keen to reprise her role for any futureERrevivals, she insists.
“What kind of possible reunion can you have with people 30 years older than they were when they first started out?!” she told the magazine.
Margulies added, “I guess it’s only going to be embarrassing as far as I’m concerned.”
Margulies “was thrilled,” however, to join in for anERreunionthat took place over Zoom this past April, perWSJ. Magazine.The virtual gathering was part of the daily seriesStars in the Houseand raised money for theWaterkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit focused on clean water.
Julianna Margulies.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Marguliesrevealedduring the reunion that her character was supposed to be killed off, but she stuck around longer than planned after getting a tip from Clooney that the network wanted to keep her on.
“George called me. He said, ‘If you’re thinking about taking a job, I urge you not to. I think in the next couple of days, you might be offered a series regular role,’ " she said. “And I was like, ‘But I died! How does that work?’ He was like, ‘I don’t know, but I think it’s going to work.’ "
Clooney corroborated the story, adding, “There was no way they were going to kill her off.”
Julianna Margulies onER.Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank
ER.Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank
While Margulies appeared onERfrom 1994 through 2000, she eventually walked away from the series. NBC offered her $27 million to stay, shetold Oprahin April, but she still declined.
“I felt very alone because I had already planned what I was going to do before they had offered me that money. I had my life planned,” she said. “I was going back to New York to go and do this play and then all this money came up. Everyone I asked said, ‘You’d be crazy [not to]. Take the money, take the money.’ "
After stopping in a book store and purchasingAwakening the Buddha Within, Margulies found her answer in the pages.
“I brought it home and I said nothing. I walked into my bedroom, I opened the book, I closed my eyes and I [pointed to a line in the book]. And I opened my eyes and the line was, ‘I knew I wanted to learn more, not earn more,’ " she recalled.
source: people.com
