Christina Applegate Wanted to Finish Filming ‘Dead to Me’ on Her Terms Despite MS Diagnosis
usmagazine.comFinishing what she started. Christina Applegate opened up about filming the final season of Dead to Me amid her multiple sclerosis diagnosis — and how she was determined to do it on her own terms.“I had an obligation to Liz [Feldman] and to Linda [Cardellini], to our story.
The powers that be were like, ‘Let’s just stop. We don’t need to finish it. Let’s put a few episodes together,’” the actress, 50, shared in an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, November 1. “I said, ‘No.
We’re going to do it, but we’re going to do it on my terms.’”Production for the Netflix show was put on pause during the pandemic and later raised concerns * about whether or not Applegate could return to film the final season.
The Anchorman star, however, admitted that while the pause was difficult, it was also vital.“There was the sense of, ‘Well, let’s get her some medicine so she can get better.’ And there is no better,” she said. “But it was good for me.
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