Why Julianna Margulies took on NatGeoChannel’s chilling Ebola thriller TheHotZone |
, a six-part tale about the origins of the Ebola virus in the late 1980s, she turned it down flat. Curiosity got the better of her, though, and soon after picking up the script she found herself in a Hazmat suit, surrounded by test tubes and petri dishes, as Nancy Jaax, a colonel at the United States Army Medical Research for Infectious Disease Institute .
Yeah, it’s frightening. There’s nothing light and airy about it. I mean, I love that Brian [Peterson] and Kelly [Souders], our showrunners, really tried to put a little humor wherever they could into the dialogue, because it’s so devastating when you really strip it down to the bare essence of what we’re dealing with. The fact that Ebola had not ever been on U.S. soil until that moment [in 1989], and we were caught with our pants down. We didn’t know what to do. There was no protocol.
Julianna Margulies On Becoming A Doctor, Lawyer And Scientist, And Why Her Grandmother Would Have Been Proud – The Actor’s SideI’m embarrassed to tell you that those Hazmat suits were the bane of my existence. I did not realize how claustrophobic I truly am until they put that suit on me. And these suits were made for men—in 1989, Nancy Jaax was the only woman in her department. Where the weight of the suit would come down on a man is the collarbone, but where it comes down on me is the tip of my shoulder, so with every movement I made in the lab, I was lifting an extra 50lb every time I moved my arm. I wrote to my agents and said, “I don’t care if someone wants to pay me $10 million, I will never step foot in that suit again.
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