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Christine Baranski Says She Was 'Stunned' to Learn 'The Good Fight' Was Ending, Admits She Still Hasn't 'Processed' It

Christine Baranski Says She Was 'Stunned' to Learn 'The Good Fight' Was Ending, Admits She Still Hasn't 'Processed' It

Christine Baranski is opening up about the end of The Good Fight.

In a new interview, the 70-year-old actress revealed her reaction to finding out that her Paramount+ series was ending after the upcoming sixth season.

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While speaking with TVLine, Christine recalled wrapped up a day of filming season six when she got the call that the show was ending.

“I had finished a marvelous workday with John Slattery and Gary Cole — I didn’t know what was coming,” Christine recalled. “By the time I got home, [series co-creators] Robert and Michelle [King] called me and told me it’s going to be the end… I was stunned. My heart dropped.”

She continued, “I tried to be sanguine and understand the reasoning for it, but it was a loss of so many things: the consistency of the work; the marvelous group of people that constitute the show; the marvelous writing. I don’t think I ever took for granted just how lucky I was to be on such a quality show. I started enjoying the work more than ever in my final few seasons.”

Christine went on to say that Robert and Michelle explained that there were “several reasons” why The Good Fight was ending after season six.

“Robert and Michelle wanted to end it while they could still control the narrative, and [there was a sense] that… perhaps, Paramount[+] did not want our [show], which was left over from CBS [All Access],” Christine said. “And Robert and Michelle didn’t want to learn that the show was being pulled without having the narrative control to bring it to an end. Which can often happen.”

“You finish a season and then you find out it’s been cancelled and the characters are left dangling without that proper push toward a solid narrative conclusion,” Christine added. “My concern was that we didn’t have enough narrative real estate to actually do a proper ending, because the decision to end the show was made halfway through [shooting Season 6].”

Another factor that set the ending of The Good Fight in motion was the fear of repetition.

“It’s a hard show to write because it’s about what’s going on in the world, and I think Robert… didn’t want to risk repeating himself,” Christine explained. “And I certainly never wanted to risk repeating myself, playing over and over that I was angry or exasperated. It’s possible we had taken [her character] Diane’s psychology about being maxed out about what was going on and her inability to cope with it as far as it could go.”

Christine also recalled the final day of shooting The Good Fight, admitting that she still hasn’t “processed” the show’s ending.

“The hardest part was hearing, ‘That’s a series wrap on Christine Baranski,’ and then everyone gathering around and me addressing everybody with whom I had worked… It was very emotional,” Christine said. “What I said to everybody was, ‘I haven’t processed this…’ And I hadn’t, because it happened rather abruptly. I was also shooting Gilded Age [simultaneously] and my head was full of [dialogue from both shows]. So it wasn’t like I had a lot of time to take long walks and think about it and ruminate. But I’m sure at some point that will happen.”

“I’m already tearing up,” Christine concluded, before adding with a laugh, “I think there’s a lot of feeling there that has to be processed.”

Season six of The Good Fight premieres on Paramount+ on Tuesday, September 6 – you can watch the trailer here.

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