Sarah Steele talks to BuzzFeed News about playing the fat girl as a teenager, making up lines with Lena Dunham, and why she’d love to work on the acclaimed CBS legal drama for years.
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She may be playing the right-hand woman to Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) on The Good Wife, but Sarah Steele has no idea which way the heated state's attorney race is swaying. Marissa, the brash daughter of political fixer Eli Gold (Alan Cummings), made her last appearance in Season 2 for three episodes before moving to Israel. But when the sixth and current season started filming, Steele was asked to reprise her role and aid the show's protagonist in her political campaign. "I was like, 'OK, that sounds great!' But I really thought it would be like what it was in Season 2, just quick and easy or getting some information out of Eli," Steele told BuzzFeed News at a diner in Times Square. "I had no idea it would expand to the 'body woman.'"
The 'body woman,' a term brought to the critically adored CBS legal drama by creators Robert and Michelle King, is basically just a personal assistant to Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), who, among her many miscellaneous tasks, is often getting milk for the state's attorney candidate. "She's obsessed with milk. I think I offer someone milk every episode that I've been in. That's about all! Every episode, I am pushing milk on people. Not quite sure why," Steele said with a laugh. But the 26-year-old actor, who currently stars as Susie Keegan in The Country House on Broadway, is proving she can do much more than keep up calcium levels.
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