Technically, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) said it, but it could very well have been Margulies to CBS. The Emmy winner opened up why you haven't seen her on The Good Fight, the spinoff of her hit CBS legal drama The Good Wife, and it comes down to money.
"CBS wouldn't pay me," Margulies told Deadline at the site's Contenders Emmys event. Margulies was there promoting her new National Geographic series Hot Zone and touched on why viewers haven't seen Alicia Florrick cross paths with Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski).
"I'm not a guest star; I started the whole thing with The Good Wife," Margulies told Deadline. "I wanted to be paid my worth and stand up for equal pay. if Jon Hamm came back for a Mad Men spinoff or Kiefer Sutherland wanted to do a 24 spinoff, they would be paid."
The Good Fight takes place some time after The Good Wife finale. That finale, which wrapped up Margulies' seven-year run as Alicia Florrick, featured Alicia throwing Diane under the bus in court, airing Diane's marriage woes in open court, all to save Peter (Chris Noth) once again. Diane slapped Alicia, much like Alicia slapped Peter in the series premiere, and Alicia straightened herself up and went on her way. The Good Fight, now in its third season on CBS All Access, features characters from The Good Wife and has mentioned Alicia Florrick in passing.
"To be perfectly honest, I was shocked," Margulies said about the pay issue. "I was more surprised than hurt. I thought, what are you worth? If you are worthless, if you are not valued for your work, then what's the point?"
At the 2019 Television Critics Association winter press tour, series co-creator Robert King revealed they were working on bringing Margulies back to be part of the "resistance" (to President Donald Trump).
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