ER stars George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and Noah Wyle said they have no interest in a revival of the hit 1994-2009 NBC drama, with Clooney saying, “It’s hard to catch lightning again.”
The actors joined several other cast members in an installment of the Sirus XM web series Stars in the House, hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, TVLine reported.
Clooney, who starred as Dr. Doug Ross for the first five seasons of the show and guest starred in Season 6, said, “When you look at the show, it’d be hard to say that we could do it [again] at the level that we did it. Because boy, I’ve actually been watching it a bit because my wife’s been watching it, which is very odd, and I have to say, it’s such great television.” Clooney cited “Love’s Labor Lost,” which detailed efforts to save a pregnant woman who had several complications during delivery, calling it “as good a piece of television as I’ve ever seen … It’s hard to catch lightning again.”
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“You can’t capture lightning in a bottle twice,” said Margulies, who played Nurse Carol Hathaway for six seasons. “I think you have to leave what was so beautiful and move on, because it just feels cheap … It would cheapen it for me.”
Wyle, who played Dr. John Carter into Season 12, appreciated that ER did not become a franchise. “CSI and Law & Order … all those shows figured out how they could brand themselves and replicate the model in a different city and get a different show out of it, and I always thought it was classy that we never tried to do that,” Wyle said.
Source: TVLine
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