Calista Flockhart Gets Back to Work

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Sunday, October 15, 2006

Calista Flockhart, the stick-thin actress that was a huge success on Ally McBeal, has returned to TV. The verdict is still out on whether it will be a success this time.

Returning to a full-time job isn’t an easy decision for any mom to make. So when Brothers & Sisters executive producer and director Ken Olin approached her, Calista Flockhart had many, many questions.

She loved the script,” Olin states, “but then she’d go, ‘What is the schedule going to be? And what are the expectations?’”

Olin patiently waited for her to decide – the role was written with her in mind – but was just about ready to begin searching for someone else when Flockhart finally said yes.

She was intrigued by the role: a conservative talk show host at odds with her liberal family. And she could not resist the challenge of playing someone “whose political views are fundamentally different than mine,” she said in July. “That definitely attracted me to the part.” Plus, she told Olin, “I miss acting.” source