Episode Report Card Niki: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Chance Of A Lifetime
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.14.2002
I can't believe how hard my heart is pounding, knowing what's coming. "Okay, cut! That was beautiful. That's a wrap, everybody!" the director calls, strolling onto the set. Some crew members start milling around, as the rest of the cast comes through the kitchen door, cheering. Sela and Billy blow the camera a kiss.
The camera fades up on a black-and-white Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick. Herskovitz says, "A long time ago, we realized that most of the process of making a movie or a TV show was about the people who were involved. And, in fact, there was a deep connection between the people who were involved, and the product you came up with."
Everything that follows is shot in black-and-white, too, in the style of the soliloquies. Cut to Sela: "'Oh, my god! I have to play this woman!' You know, by the time I finished the script, I went, 'Damn! I gotta do it. I gotta do it!'"
Cut to Billy: "I've done probably as many pilots as George Clooney." He smiles self-deprecatingly.
Cut to Susanna, Shane, and Evan. Susanna squeezes Shane's cheek, and says fondly, "This one here just, uh, he just opened his arms and said hello and gave me a big hug. And I knew I was okay."
Billy and Sela. He asks, "You don't remember that?" She says, "No. We didn't meet there. We had a drink, at a restaurant. Do you remember?" He thinks he's got it: "You were having lunch at the same restaurant?" She shakes her head with a smile: "No." Billy: "Oh." Sela: "I wanted to meet you, to make sure you weren't a real jerk." Billy laughs nervously.
Jeffrey: "The hardest thing for me, I think, was that I had no experience with teenage daughters."
Ever: "I was only supposed to do one, but I stuck!"
Marin is sitting on Steven's lap. She asks, "Do you remember when we met? That first day we had to passionately kiss?"
Sela assures Billy that he was "incredibly charming, and...we did have a drink. Do you remember where that was?" He admits that he doesn't. "That's so frightening," she exclaims, and they bust out laughing.
Ed Zwick fidgets with his fingers and looks up, admitting, "What I'm most upset about [with] the possibility of the show ending, is that no one will ever hire me to act again." In this recapper's humble opinion, Dr. Wise-Ass, you've got nothing to fear.
The interviewer apparently asks the actors how they feel about the thought of cancellation.
Evan: "I can't really put it into words." Susanna laughs, "No, I can't put it into words."
Jeffrey: "I don't know how it's going to feel until I...um...it's not there anymore."
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