Nurse Jackie Series Finale To Offer ‘Sense of Completeness’
What’s it like to exit a role after 80 episodes?
You know it’s coming, so you know how to prepare for it. On a network, you can be canceled before you’ve finished telling the story of this person but when you know it’s coming….
What was your take on the “Jackie” finale?
Early on I said, “If this is going to be a show about an addict — though it’s about a lot of things — it has to have real ramifications for her behavior.” She’s hurting people, she’s hurting herself, she’s getting older and I wanted at least to some extent mirror my experience with addiction, not just my personal one but addicts I’ve known and to take it seriously as an issue. I thought early on she probably shouldn’t make it.
Source and more: LA Times
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