![]() Nothing, nothing at all.’ She had a wholesomeness and a lovely ability to make people identify with her and trust her. “I remember her scene with the late Ferrer - she had to tell him that he had a cancer diagnosis, and she she said something like, ‘Nothing is certain. ![]() We got excited about her and read her when we came back,” Levey said. She was very unhappy for whatever reason, and she shared that with us on the plane. “At that time she was on NYPD Blue as a series regular in their first season. And he came in and read and read the hell out of it. The way Laker basketball players are sort of doing stretching stuff on the floor before the game, he was on the floor in the hallway in scrubs doing his stretching. “I remember him lying in the hallway in scrubs. In every pilot I’ve done since then, when we’re having trouble with a part, we remind ourselves that Eriq was cast on day three of the shoot,” Levey said. So while Levey knew early on that La Salle was perfect for prickly Peter Benton, he kept getting shot down. casting head Miller’s rules was that none of her casting directors could poach actors from each other. La Salle was recurring on a different medical show at the time, and one of Warner Bros. ![]() In another life, actor Chris Fields could’ve scored the role: “Anthony tested opposite a guy called Chris Fields, who’s here in Los Angeles still and is the artistic director of one of the best theaters, the Echo Theatre Company.” I think one of the keys to the early success was that quality that John saw on the top of the pile.” Greene from now on.’ I think that’s how a lot of us felt - that Anthony was really the soul of the show, and that he had such a trustworthy quality and such a caring physician. I remember distinctly after we saw the cut of the pilot Barbara Miller jokingly hollering to her assistant, ‘Get my doctor! Fire him. John walked over to the pile and picked up the picture and said, ‘Oh, that’s a good idea! Get him in the first day.’ And we did, and he ended up casting. “Anthony was a certain kind of young leading man in Top Gun as Goose, and then he was a wholly different-looking guy by the time he was submitted for ER.
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