![]() I couldn’t even tone it down,” says Applegate. Feldman intentionally waited until the very end of the shoot to film Jen and Judy’s last scene together - their goodbye scene in bed. My body was not feeling amazing during our shooting, so it all kind of worked.”Īpplegate was also diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during filming and many days on set were emotional. Think of that is pretty committed,” jokes Applegate. “Being the method actor that I am when I found out about the pregnancy, I made sure immediately I gained 40 pounds. But the more she thought about it and the other writers talked about it, it all came together. The same is true with Judy’s storyline and what that was able to do for Jen in terms of healing from the loss of her mother.”Īt first, the idea of making Jen pregnant sounded “crazy” to Feldman. “Given what Judy went through, especially in the beginning of the show, and even prior to Season 1 - her whole history with fertility and infertility, which very much mirrors my own - it just felt like, wow, what a way to bring everything kind of full circle. Having Judy die in the end was an important part of the story for Feldman, and her “goal” for the season was to give everyone closure and in a way, connect everything. Anytime that I’ve lost somebody, it’s been that thing of like, how do I explain who this person is to my child, who never got a chance to meet that person? How will they understand what this person means to me? By Judy being gone, I think it leaves that feeling of grief, like you won’t get that back again, and you will never be able to explain that again, but life still grows and moves forward from that point.” “Her being gone at the end is like, how will Jen ever explain who that person was? How will she ever try to tell somebody what it was like to have that person in her life? She’s such a strange, pixie person that she’s gone through these crazy events with. “I think there’s this thing about grief that whenever anybody close to me has gone and that person is a larger than life, sort of an indelible mark on your life that you can’t quite explain to somebody… I feel like Judy’s essence is like that,” Cardellini says. With the series wrapping up, the actors struggled to not only say goodbye to each other (we’ll get to that later) but also to the characters. ![]() “These women were imperfect and wonderful, they were flawed and they made mistakes and they did some things. If I had wanted to explore that, I would have,” she says. So did Jen tell Ben about Steve - and did he forgive her? “I think that’s for you and for the audience to explore for himself. I wanted people to feel their feelings, but also give a little sense of delight.” You don’t know where to put your feelings, you just have to feel them. Because you don’t know, you don’t have the answers. That’s why it’s so long lasting, why grief is so hard to work through. “My experience with grief is, you don’t know what happens. I didn’t want to stray from that,” Feldman says. I didn’t want to put too fine a period on anything. ![]() “I wanted the end to still feel very much like the show.
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