She said she wants to play both coasts, balancing her career between the stage and Hollywood TV and movie roles. Lewis will return to her New York apartment after the series is completed and look for work in the theater. Now we're both doing surgery in the nude, which is quite a switch.' 'At the start of the show Jackie was shy and withdrawn and so was I. I was intimdated when I first came here, but now I feel comfortable and much more alive. I worked in intellectually stimulating things such as Chekhov and Shakespeare. I was into cerebral stuff in New York and down-played the externals. 'I've undergone a personal metamorphosis since moving here from New York City. 'Jackie and I are both very different from what we were when the series began six years ago. But the people are ready and it's time to move on to other things. 'It's painful,' she said, 'like losing your family. Elsewhere' will have filmed its final episode. And the show has regularly killed off major characters.'īecause the series has been innovative and uncommonly well-written, Lewis is saddened by the knowledge that within the next month 'St. Ed Flanders was the first series star ever to moon the rest of the cast of characters on camera. Eligius, including Helen Hunt, Mark Harmon, Howie Mandel, Ed Begley, Jr. The show boasted many now-famous faces who got their big break in the halls of St. Elsewhere ,' which ran on NBC from 1982-88. We were the first show to do a story about a heterosexual AIDS patient. Long before 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'House' ruled the airwaves, another medical soap was one of primetime's heaviest hitters: ' St. 'The hospital asks for volunteers for the experiment, and Jackie is one of the doctors willing to give it a try. It's really not about nudity as much as it is about liberation and risk-taking. 'It was fun because it was a daring departure for episodic TV. I'm sure it will be edited very conservatively. 'All the same, we had a closed set with only the cast members and the crew present. Then as the scene wore on we all became more comfortable, as did our characters. 'We were all a bit self-conscious at the beginning on the day we shot the scene, which is what the script demanded of the characters, too. 'I haven't seen the footage yet, but I imagine the cameras focused mainly from the shoulders up. 'The cast, including myself, will be dressed mostly in body stockings,' Lewis explained. Elsewhere' cast, it must be remembered this is TV, not the movies where the camera would linger. To dismiss any anticipation by viewers of lurid shots of the 'St. It hasn't been proved yet, but they're still working on it.' 'They are experimenting with the idea that the clothes worn by hospital workers in surgery spread infections.
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