Filming on the show wrapped last week and Michelle said there were "torrents of tears," and Robert added the crew stayed up until 6 a.m. the next day drinking, with Margulies and Christine Baranski both relishing in the final moments. But it was Cush Jumbo, a new cast addition for season seven, who was the most emotional.
"At the drop of a hat she would cry," Robert told us. "We have a scene in one of the episodes where we're tearing apart one of the sets and she was just bawling."
As for additional adventures of anybody in The Good Wife universe, Robert said "there is a chance" of a spinoff.
"CBS seems to be very motivated—they like these characters, but they also like the world and all these subsidiary characters, so there may be a chance," he said.
"It's all very preliminary, so we'll see," Michelle said.
There are just three episodes of The Good Wife left and Margulies and Jumbo teased the finale as "sad" but "satisfying" during a panel question and answer after the screening of "Landing."
"I read it once, and I couldn't talk to anyone about it, because I was emotionally confused, because I was having so many emotions knowing I was wrapping this character up," Margulies told the crowd.
According to Variety, the Kings sent Margulies a bottle of wine with the series finale script, and a note saying Alicia should drink while reading it. "So I opened the wine," Margulies said. "And I poured a wee glass, not an Alicia-sized glass. I then I read it a fourth time, and I then could digest it. I wrote [the Kings] three lines: ‘Nothing but brilliant.'"
The Good Wife airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on CBS. The series finale airs Sunday, May 8.
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