![]() "What's beautiful about the Kings is they find people they like and then the whole world opens up," Steele says about the spouses' penchant for deploying certain actors, including the likes of Carrie Preston, Gary Cole, and Mike Colter, who currently stars as a Catholic priest in Evil after playing a buttoned-up drug lord in the Good-verse. "She just came up to me one day and was like, 'You're so great on this show.'" For The Good Fight, however, she'd be an integral part of the series, sharing scenes with Baranski in practically every episode and learning to love, as all the lawyer shows say, The Law. "We had no scenes together, really," Steele says. On the set of The Good Wife, Steele admits she was "completely starstruck" by Baranski. "That was very bonding," she says.) She learned at The Good Wife's wrap party that the series' creators, Robert and Michelle King, wanted her back for the spinoff series, along with Christine Baranski reprising Diane Lockhart and Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn. (After shooting episodes of Season 6, Steele would share a van with Cumming to Times Square for their respective night gigs performing in The Country House and Cabaret. "I think I walked in with a real Marissa Gold confidence that I don't necessarily naturally possess, but I was just having a moment where I was like, 'I don't even care about mainstream art,' and I walked in not giving a fuck, and I got the job, of course."Įventually, a two-episode bit part, where she's introduced sarcastically eye-rolling during a spat with her dad, turned into a recurring role in The Good Wife's last two seasons, often counseling Margulies' Alicia Florrick through work and personal issues with surprisingly astute wisdom. "I said, 'Okay, this fits into my Christmas break,'" Steele sasses in evoking her younger self. ![]() A student at Columbia University, she had just returned from Seattle, where she was hanging out in the experimental theater scene and riding a feeling of creative liberation when the audition opportunity popped up on her phone while she was walking out of a yoga class. "When you don't care about showbiz is when you get your best opportunities," quips Steele, who manages to fit magnanimous energy, deferential humility, and self-assured confidence into her 5'0" frame. Initially, Steele was cast as Marissa, the wisecracking 18-year-old daughter of Alan Cumming's political strategist Eli Gold, for a two-episode arc in Season 2 during a time in her life where she already felt detached and jaded about the business. Over the past 11 years, the 33-year-old Steele has been trekking to North Brooklyn to play Marissa Gold in both The Good Fight, which just began streaming its sixth and final season, and The Good Wife, its Emmy-winning progenitor starring Julianna Margulies as the titular wife resuscitating her dormant legal career. "We lived half of our life in this neighborhood." "I love Greenpoint and we've had such a fun, free portion," Steele tells me over cocktails and a vegetarian bowl at the custom birch-paneled record bar Eavesdrop, not even a full block away from one of her favorite classic Greenpoint haunts, Five Leaves, at the northern tip of McCarren Park. The following day, he'd move into her Brooklyn Heights co-op. The Paramount+ legal drama's soundstage, tucked away in an industrial pocket not far from the imposing, bulbous silhouette of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, was a seven-minute walk from her boyfriend's apartment. By "cosmic" circumstance, as Sarah Steele puts it, the sweltering August day we meet in Greenpoint became a tiny farewell party not just for the coming end of The Good Fight, but to say goodbye to the neighborhood itself.
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