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Jim O'Heir says James Spader stood up for him on Boston Legal set: 'Dude is so intense'

James Spader stood up for Jim O'Heir on the 'Boston Legal' set, the 'Parks and Recreation' star says: 'Dude is so intense.'

Spader's ambitious and (usually) moralistic lawyer Alan Shore was the connective tissue between the series, which yielded the star significant power in situations where cast and crew may be at odds. O'Heir's Boston Legal episode was called "Loose Lips," and on it, he played a man named Gil Furnald, a mall Santa fired from his post after his employer finds out he wears women's clothes in his private time. To add to the pressure, O'Heir had already felt that Boston Legal's other big name star, William Shatner, viewed his character with "disgust."

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