Julianna Margulies charges back onto our TV screens in the third season of The Good Wife. If you have not yet tuned in to the show then here is a synopsis of what has happened so far…
Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) is a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband – Peter (Chris Noth). Alicia starts over by pursuing her original career as a defence attorney, as a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm; she joins her long-time friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested in rekindling their former relationship. Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician’s scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach and 13-year-old Grace. Alicia finds an ally and a friend in Kalinda, the firm’s tough and mysterious in-house investigator; that is until she discovers she betrayed her as well. Alicia makes an enemy out of Cary Agos beating him to the junior associate’s position following a trial period. As a clever young attorney he takes a job in the state’s attorney’s office – now bitter and vengeful he ends up working for Alicia’s husband when he wins back the States Attorney position. By the beginning of season 3 real changes have been made. Alicia has separated from her husband after finally throwing him out of her apartment. He is so say running a clean states attorney’s office – but only time will tell. Will and Alicia have begun a secret affair; but if push comes to shove it seems the firm will take priority over her and their relationship.
In real life Julianna in an ironic twist of fate is married to a lawyer – Keith Lieberthal. They married in November 2007 and had their son Kieran in January 2008. So having played the woman scorned you might be surprised about Julianna’s take on infidelity and what it can do for a marriage or relationship. In an interview with Emma Brockes for Psychologies magazine some time ago she said the following:
Q. Do you have a policy on infidelity?
A.“Working on The Good Wife has actually changed my judgmental ways. Portraying this woman has been interesting to me psychologically as a female, and as someone who takes relationships seriously. You never know until you’re in their shoes. I have absolutely no idea what I would do. Here’s the thing: relationships can endure a lot, and sometimes – I know this to be true because it happened to a dear friend of mine – there was an infidelity and they said let’s figure this out. They have children, so they went to therapy. And they’re better for it. They reconnected in a way they hadn’t been after a long marriage and it sparked something. So infidelity can work to an advantage. That said, I never think cheating is the way to go because ultimately you’re lying and that’s not a healthy way to live. But who am I to say? I can’t imagine it happening to me, but I’m a newlywed, and we met later in life so we got our ya-yas out of the way.”
Of course there are examples of celebrities that have been accused of infidelity or admitted to cheating and yet have put their relationships back together and equally there are those relationships that have not been able to weather the storm. In terms of The Good Wife we will just have to keep on tuning in to see how the love triangle between Alicia, Will and Peter works out!
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