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Aaron Sorkin Says Audiences Wouldn’t Recognize “Reasonable Republicans” If He Made ‘The West Wing’ Today
Aaron Sorkin Says Audiences Wouldn't Recognize Reasonable Republicans If He Made The West Wing Today.
But there is one element from his Emmy-winning series that viewers couldn’t vibe with today, Sorkin told the audience Saturday during a mini-cast reunion of The West Wing: the idea that reasonable Republicans work on Capitol Hill. “I don’t want to get a rumble started or anything like that,” Sorkin told the crowd at the Skirball Center event, which was meant to celebrate the Aug. 13 release of the book What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing by show stars Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack. The ensemble spent over an hour yukking it up about old times, like how Martin Sheen used to shake all the hands of the background actors, how Yo-Yo Ma was completely infatuated with Moloney when he guest-starred on an episode, and how Malina was — and continues to be — a straight-up troublemaker.
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