Christine Baranski Is Fighting 'The Good Fight' as a "Liberal Feminist Lawyer"

Jun. 24 2021, Published 2:03 p.m. ET

Sometimes, artwork imitates life in some way it's possible you'll no longer even want to see. This is the case for Season Five of The Good Fight, which continues to emulate the present political climate of the United States. 

But the show has never shied away from incorporating what's happening in the actual world. When Christine Baranski spoke with Stephen Colbert about her character's role in all of it, she explained how necessary the show is now, greater than ever.

Christine Baranski mentioned 'The Good Fight' Season Five on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'

When Christine gave the impression as a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on June 23, 2021, she unfolded about what it has been like to play her character, Diane Lockhart, for more than 10 years on each The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

She defined that particularly now, it is vital for her character — whom she described as a "liberal feminist lawyer" with a Republican husband — to stand through her beliefs and keep her combat stepping into an international the place Donald Trump is transferring out of office.

On the display, the characters are navigating the current U.S. political panorama nearly in real-time. The Season Five premiere presentations the U.S. Capitol riots, and there is a sure raw fact to what's happening at the show. Whether you wish to have to relive what is going on or no longer, The Good Fight has all the time run as parallel as conceivable to exact politics. And Christine is here for it.

"The great thing about The Good Fight is [that] all of the characters, particularly mine, live in the present tense," she mentioned. "My character's a liberal feminist lawyer, high ideals, and so for four years, we got to watch a liberal feminist lawyer negotiate the Trump years."

She went on to explain that as a result, her character had "Trump derangement syndrome." Christine described this as her character banging her head in opposition to a wall or taking psychedelic medicine to get through it all.

Christine Baranski's political opinions reflect a few of her character's.

When talking with Stephen, Christine commended him for the way he coated Trump's time in the White House for 4 years. And, despite the fact that she isn't a real-life legal professional, her political affairs do seem to align with lots of Diane Lockhart's.

In 2019, she opened as much as IndieWire concerning the similarities she has with her character on The Good Fight, announcing, "I'm not going to hide the fact that I consider myself a liberal feminist as well. And I admire the character I'm playing."

Season Five of 'The Good Fight' mirrors the true lifestyles post-Trump generation.

If the primary episode of Season 5 wasn't enough of a sign of what's to return, showrunners Robert and Michelle King informed Newsweek that they were able to remodel portions of the season to keep up with the sector's current occasions.

Such has form of all the time been the case with the show, however, and it seems that this actual piece of artwork will indeed proceed to imitate life.

Watch The Good Fight on Thursdays on Paramount Plus.

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