Stories From The Set Of 'The West Wing' | Entertainment Weekly
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Behind the scenes stories of 'The West Wing' from Aaron Sorkin, Bradley Whitford, Dulé Hill, Marlee Matlin, Janel Moloney, Josh Malina, Mary McCormack, and Richard Schiff.
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The chemistry between Dule and Martin Sheen was awesome
The episode that had Yo-Yo Ma is literally one of the greatest episodes of West Wing, let alone TV I have ever seen. Bradley’s not downplaying it’s significance
one question:
How did you hurt your hand?
@@jimmy2k4o Unfortunately, Psychiatrists don't really work like that. At least not the ones I ever encountered. I wanted some help 30 years ago and all I got were idiots due to insurance (and I had a good job with good benefits).
@@tomsampson8084 shame my psychiatrist isn’t like that either.
I want one that’s tough and smart and will tell me to stop BS-ing when I do so without realising.
Half the time you see him, it’s actually my son sitting in.
No he wasn’t!
Richard Schiff mentioning The West Wing Weekly and telling that wonderful story about the veteran/actor. ❤️
My daughter was a PA on the show. She said Richard Schiff was very strict about non essential people on the set. She sometimes had to deliver items to the soundstage and was very careful not to linger. Because once the buzzer sounds you have to be gone. On the last day, as everyone was leaving, Richard Schiff noticed my daughter, addressed her by name and thanked her. He is a real gentleman.
He played one of the humps in Season 1 of the wire.
@@tychothefriendlymonolith "He looks like a hump ... he acts like a hump." - McNulty on Freamon
Josh’s story about John Spencer made me cry. RIP to a wonderful actor and person.
I met Joshua Malina almost 20 years ago at a casino (I believe The palm) in Las Vegas. He was there shooting "Celebrity Poker Showdown" for charity. He was the producer I think. He was the warmest most kind gentleman. I was just some nobody who happened to recognize him and his friend Timothy Busfield that day. They treated me like a VIP and invited me to the taping of the show. It was a great experience. I'm sure he has no memory of this but it's still fresh in my mind. Just wanted to tell this story because he is the type of person that treats a complete stranger/nobody with so much kindness and respect. It tells a lot about the character of the person.
Timothy Busfield!!!!
As someone who does not watch TV, I must confess I have not seen West Wing as it played weekly. With the current state of the US political affairs, I thought the show could offer a little insight and a refresher course of the workings of our government, along with offering a little entertainment . I must say I was taken aback, the show was more than I could have ask for. It was rich in content, writing was like a master piece along with character development. It was an amazing show, I binged watched, just completed the series, and now, next day started once again at Season1, Episode 1. Thank you for the work you do!!! PS John Spencer was my favorite character, but loved you all....way to go Donna...there til the end!!!!
When you re-watch West Wing you see that little morsel you missed. You can watch it again and again and something new to you will stick.
@@stephenconway2468 Thanks Stephen, I so agree.....watching again everynite....much I missed....loving it all over again.
@@patriciahale6575 Few shows deserve that accolade. When I was a kid I was supposed to be in bed when MASH was on. I rigged up my radio and cassette recorder to tape their shows. I played them again and again. It was years later that I saw the show itself.
WW is in that category and really, I cannot think of another. Can you?
@@stephenconway2468 there's another show in the likes of West Wing, but relating to the news division: The Newsroom. It's basically how news should be, in this time filled with fake news. And there's always Band of Brothers, which I know it's a miniseries, not a show, but I always find myself watching all 10 episode in one day when I want to enjoy them again. These 3 shows I can always re-watch and enjoy just like the first time. I can never see too much of Sam getting smashed on live TV on his first encounter with Ainsley, I can watch over and over again Will McAvoy answering a student why American is no longer the greatest country in the world and I still get the chills when I see the opening title of 'Bastogne' and prepare for a winter hell to unleash in WWII Ardennes.
Amazing how Donna was only supposed to be kind of a bit character, but she was so impressive they made her a major part of the show. Janel Moloney still looks phenomenal.
Wow, Marlee Matlin has not aged a single day
Holy crap, the carving knife scene...still gets me every time.
It was a great scene among so many great scenes. You just wish it was reality and not what we have....reality TV.
Charlie had a lot of the most impactful scenes in the whole series.
This is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched and it made me appreciate how elegant American politics and government could be. This was just a show, but what we are going through now with this circus of an administration, it feels beyond fiction.
But West Wing is a refuge. I watch it over and over again hoping that people in government will once again, hopefully soon, come in service with a sense of duty and not for self indulgence or just to play political games.
Dule Hill tap dancing to Yoyo Ma improvising makes me so furiously jealous.
Not me!
Dule' did a great job for Charlie....the character was like the presidents adopted son
He was exactly that. Perfect description.
Precisely that scene where Charlie has to tell Mrs Landingham is dead, is the worst scene of the entire show for me. Not because of the storyline, which was sad enough, but Dulé didn't do his best scene there.
I read that it was literally the first time he heard about it so it would be a realistic reaction
@@Dirk-van-den-Berg it was an acting choice, not a bad performance - they told him that Charlie was more used to death than the other characters, so he should be more held together.
Aaron Sorkin talked about it on The West Wing Weekly podcast
It was such a pity when the president said that his children had all married idiots- so Zoey didn’t marry Charlie, 😢
About time this was on blu ray with these as the extras hours of west wing watching. One of the best shows ever, R.I.P Leo, John Spence.
The greatest scene, for me, was towards the end of the season 2 finale, right when Dire Straits 'Brothers in Arms’ started playing…Man, I got goosebumps. One of my favourite songs of all time being featured on my favourite tv show. That moment sums up the tumultuous road ahead, where the world is waiting to hear President Bartlet’s decision on whether he is running for a 2nd term or not. Simply mesmerising and marvellously done. I love it!
Loved This Show...and I still go back and watch the complete series at least once a year on my DVD's....like seeing Family Again! Cheers To All
Exactly! Like visiting old friends.
I’d say the first 3 seasons of The West Wing is the most rewatchable TV drama ever made.
It’s just not the same without Kenny’s voice interpreting.
This is not my regular Tuesday suit.
Does anybody here know Kenny's second name?
@@gordon1545 Kenny Thurman
@@gordon1545 Bartlet called him Kippy in one episode.
@@user-pt6fq7bh1i I know, it was a line Bartlet said.
Dule had some of the best/funniest little plots during the run
Like stepping out of Zoey's room to meet the President in the White House hallway? Having met a future son in law in the same manner, I can relate with Jeb.
It is truly amazing the INTERNATIONAL impact The West Wing had.
The need of a better political "caste", to discuss about policies and not about tags or politicians, an idealistic more honest political landscape, all of that is an international issue. WW gave us a glimpse of a marvelous what if.
0:55 “He gave him the knife!”
My daughter knew this for years, long before she decided to watch. Accused me of all sorts when it didnt actually get said!
I used to watch this show when i was 10. im 22 now, i still remember it as one of the great shows i have ever seen. i wanted to get into politics in middle school because of it. i wanted to move to america (im european) and become the spokesperson for the president there. i grew up with the principles this show taught me, and they are the same principles my dad had. the west wing reminds me of home, and always will.
I'm glad that Joshua Molina is in this too. I'm like 95% he was physically in more episodes than Rob Lowe.
They made Mary come back 7 days after they gave birth?? Excuse me??
So lovely to see Marlee in this!
Shoutout to the West Wing Weekly!
I really miss this show, it was a highlight of each week when a new ep showed.
The night “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” originally aired, I had given birth just a few hours earlier to our first child , but we weren’t ABOUT to miss an episode of WWing: my husband climbed up in my recovery bed, held our sleeping daughter on his chest and we ate cheesecake while we watched.
still...to this day...the best show on television. End of story. Hard stop.
Best show ever!! I ❤️ Toby & Charlie!! And Leo! 🤣
One of the best series on t.v. Too bad it had to end.
But it was perfect the way it ended.
I bought season 1 as a teenager thinking I’d like it. great cast, great reviews I expected something like “A few good men” with some 24 meets house md. ‘A few good men’ was my favourite movie at the time. (Still is)
I was disappointed, I expected all talk and little/zero action but I didn’t expect the talk would be impossible for me to follow.
I got three episodes in and gave up.
Years later watching Steve jobs, I couldn’t put my finger on why I liked this movie. Eventually I realised it was the dialogue and writing. I looked up the writer and saw it was the dude that did ‘a few good men’ and ‘social network’ which I liked so I watched his other movies. Loved every one for the same reason I loved jobs and AFGM so decided to give The West wing another try since I was older, smarter and more mature than last time. I also had an interest in politics that I didn’t have before.
I loved it so much I watched it all in under two weeks, thought it declined a bit at the end but immediately went back to the Pilot and started again (but this time it was just seasons 1-4 since I learned that Sorkin left and that explained the drop in quality)
I’ve actually been rewatching it in a near constant loop since then. When I’m bored, depressed, stressed or craving some intellectual weight lifting… I just put on west wing.
Also love Studio 60 and newsroom. Haven’t watched all Sports night because I wanna save something in case he dies/quits unexpectedly and there’s no new sorkin work coming, that way when I watch a sorkin work for the first time, for the last time……I’ll know I’m eating an endangered species and can properly appreciate and savour it.
His work has actually equal parts inspired/scared me to become a writer. I wanna be a writer to do what he does….inspired.
I know however I’ll never be that good so why bother….scarred.
Joke but true.
It’s interesting to me that the creative work of one person can alter the course of somebody else’s life and make him wanna do nothing but that.
You WERE awesome in Sports Night Josh. Easily one of the most under recognized gem in television.
One of my favorite things about TWW is the walk and talks
Margaret was always one of my favorite under the radar characters
i always like how they played with her real life pregnancy. No one knew she was married?
Love Aaron Sorkin!
One of the best shows of all time!! For me it's #2 right behind The Wire..
Loved the show, still watch it online.
Absolutely brilliant! 💞
“Notice you went extemporaneous on the D section Mr. President - Toby Ziegler
Amazing show I love 💗 hearing these stories 😊
been listening to the West Wing podcast, it's great
What's the exact name of the podcast?
@@Hiya_Pal West Wing Weekly, hosted by Josh Malina (Will on West Wing) and Hrishikesh Hirway
Although it would be difficult, I’d love to see a new West Wing series. New characters, modern mix. However I don’t think it would work. Too much drama in real life. Maybe an Aaron Sorkin show about lobbyist? Or just a general DC political show? Wait, a Federal Court judges show with an emphasis on politics.
Yo Yo Ma rules!
Can’t wait for the special. I fucking NEED this in my life.
Aghhhh, Joey/Marlee is SOOOOOOOOO attractive! Don't get me wrong, the whole cast has aged gracefully. Seeing Sam in "Get Out" made me so excited, Allison is looks like she barely aged 10 years, and Rob Lowe is Rob Lowe lol
But Joey/Marlee......aghhh.....she's SUCH a beautiful woman....
I missed this show.
Donna is geostationary
I fell soo hard for this show the first season. There was much to recommend and it was really well done. The show and it's broad reaching effects (is it affects?) are good reasons to deny the broad paintbrush used to white-wash people who go into politics. This is what we hope for in the White House. This is the erudition, the intelligence and sensitivity we all wish existed in government at every level.
Along with Parks And Rec, we might just have some sterling examples of how things should be these days.
Donna!
Don’t shout
Wow
Can someone get Aaron to just give us a table reading of these characters one more time
Or even better, have them in act a classic episode like a stage play, which is what HBO is doing this month.
They did! It was available on HBO Now; they did a full episode read-thru as a stage play just a couple of months ago. Everyone but John Spencer was in it (really miss him.) It was done as a fundraiser and may still be available online.
I will never forgive Aaron Sorkin for the death of Mrs. Landingham.
Anthony Frascella yeah but it gave us the national cathedral scene.
@@justwatching2428 it gaves us the two cathedrals, arguably the best hour of television ever made.
Didn’t She died in real life and that’s why Sorkin wrote her off??
Aaron Sorkin looks like his collar is squeezing all the blood to his face
I’m so shallow but Dule Hill is so handsome.
Anyone know who was interpreting for Marlee here?
He sounds like Jack Jason, her personal interpreter
Dule is and will always be a snack.
🍍
'It was so nice I got no maternity leave!'
LOL, but seriously, this was all very cool
For real who did the audio recording for this whole day? They need to be fired
What's Next?
Brad has aged so much
Did he say tap dance? O!M!G! Take me back to the land of cotton!
Goodness me. Something lives in your head rent free.
@@effkay3691 yeah, thoughts. 😆
@@funkyandbold A black dude can’t tap dance now?
Some wise people say that killing Trump is a form of self-defense if you believe him being alive will result in your death. Would that be a tragedy?
Rob low has really aged, I hardly recognised him.
🤪
Was one of my favourite shows untill they campainged for that creep Biden.
Yes, but they always played the libtard card on the show! Shouldn’t have surprised you.
Josh should have hooked with with Joey Lucas!