I think she comes into her own with the way her character rides out into the sunset. It’s not necessarily something that people who watch the show and who know my character well would have expected, but I find it very satisfying for Liz.
In some ways, I was double processing everything.ĭo you feel the series brings Liz to a conclusive, satisfying place by the end of this final season? Not even just me, as Audra, reacting to what’s happening, but as Liz. You were forced to look at it, process it, then critically examine it. Anything in the social-justice and political aspect of what was happening in the world, we were facing and exploring on a day-to-day basis with The Good Fight.
I don’t blame anybody for feeling this way, but there have been times when you want to just bury your head in the sand and not think about what’s going on. Did playing Liz Reddick help you process the past few tumultuous years? The Good Fight has always been a very topical show that is critical of American politics. They really explore what it’s like when everything feels like it’s spinning out of control. Robert and Michelle throw everything at the wall with extra abandon this season. Sometimes you stay too long at the fair, and I think that’s definitely not what’s happening here. I am glad we’re ending The Good Fight when it’s still a very strong show and has a lot to say. What is on your mind as the last season of The Good Fight airs and you bring this chapter of your acting career to a close? (Hint: More Broadway performances are on the way.) She also opened up about how playing Liz helped her process the political spectacle of the past few years, and where she plans to take her career next. In our conversation over Zoom, McDonald gushes when asked about her friendship with Baranski, calling it “the biggest gift” from working on a series together after admiring each other from afar. The two actors also appear together on the sumptuous HBO period drama The Gilded Age, which is currently filming its second season. McDonald, a six-time Tony Award winner and Broadway legend, plays Liz Reddick, a no-nonsense lawyer and foil to Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart. Now entering its sixth and final season, Good Fight star Audra McDonald says its showrunners, Robert and Michelle King, “throw everything at the wall with extra abandon.” It’s an apt description for a show that previously dedicated an episode on obtaining Trump’s rumored golden shower sex tape, and another investigating the conspiracy surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious death. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photo: Liz Fisher/CBS ©2021 Paramount+įor six years, The Good Fight has served as television’s guiding light through the absurdism of the American political climate, giving viewers a fresh, hopeful take on what it was like to live through Donald Trump’s presidency.