Christine Baranski is reprising her The Good Wife role for The Good Fight, a spinoff also starring Rose Leslie. Watch the first trailer here!
Diane Lockhart is back to impart some wisdom on her goddaughter Maia, played by Game of Thrones alum Rose Leslie. The pair are struggling after a financial scam that left Maia’s reputation destroyed and Diane without any money.
The Good Fight takes place a year after The Good Wife, and also stars Heléne Yorke as Maia’s girlfriend Amy and Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn. Carrie Preston is also set to appear for an arc.
Watch the trailer below:
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— The Good Wife (@TheGoodWife_CBS) December 18, 2016
Showrunners and executive producers Robert and Michelle King have said of Rose Leslie’s casting, via E! Online:
“We’re thrilled to have Rose on board. We needed a young actress who could hold her own with Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, and Rose is perfect. She’s real, she’s strong and she can play comedy. If we designed an actress from the ground up, we couldn’t have done better.”
On the possibility of Julianna Marguiles reprising her role as Alicia Florrick, Robert King says:
“It’s difficult only because you don’t want to taint something that felt complete to us. One of those things we’re seeing if it works is seeing if Julianna can guest on the show. It’s not going to be going in the past, it will be continuing in the future… It is its own story and you want it to be its own story, so that is difficult and that’s one of the things we’re trying to break.”
The Good Fight will only be available on CBS All Access, starting February 19, 2017.