Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos This doesn’t happen often: One of my favorite actors has scored one of the coolest roles on one of TV’s best dramas.
Friday Night Lights MVP Scott Porter is joining CBS’ The Good Wife as a professional and perhaps personal foil to Archie Punjabi’s sexually ambiguous Kalinda, sources confirm to me exclusively.
Porter’s handsome and mysterious character, Blake, is Kalinda’s private-eye counterpart at the D.C. firm that’s merging with Lockhart & Gardner. Per the casting breakdown, Blake “offsets his cynical attitude with lots of hidden humor and sexual charisma. He is disguised as a landlord when he first encounters Kalinda, who doesn’t appreciate being taken in by this ‘master of disguise.’ However, underneath their fractious interactions, there’s definite chemistry between these two.”
Porter’s exact episode count is still being worked out, but I’m told he could appear in as many as 10 episodes of Wife‘s second season.
Thoughts? Are you as stoked about this piece of casting as I am? And do you think the “definite chemistry” between Blake and Kalinda will lead to something romantic? And if so, what will Kalinda’s female bartender crush have to say about it? Sound off below!
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LOVE THIS!
Each day we get more and more good news on the casting front for THE GOOD WIFE! I can see a chance for definite chemistry, but I hope they continue to explore the other side of Kalinda that we only saw brief hints of last year.
Yea!! Thank God for the Good Wife. It is one of the things keeping me sane knowing I have only one more season of FNL.
This means no more Jill Flint as an FBI agent? I’m officially sad.
great casting! love love love Scott Porter! He’ll be a great addition to the other great men on “the good wife”!!
Your breaking my Cary & Kalinda loving heart.
I second that!!
Season 2 for TGW just keeps getting better and better!
Yes, Laurie! It seems to me that Season 2 will be better than the first one…
Knox Overstreet and Jason Street on the same show? Hooked.
Ha! Awesome, Lyndy. This is one of those shows that I NEVER would have predicted I’d get into, but it’s been a pleasant surprise that just keeps getting better.
That sounds almost too good to be true! Can’t wait to see it.
Yay! Now can we get Riggs to make an appearance too?
COOL!
No frakkin’ way!!! Wanna talk about chemistry? Let’s talk Agent Lana Delaney. Please let them bring Jill Flint back for season two!
Personally, I love the idea, although Kalinda, as played by the wonderful Archie Panjabi, could eat this guy up shoes and all.
I thought Scott had a pilot picked up where he played an extreme adventure guy who occasionally worked for the CIA? Did that not make the fall lineup afterall?
The pilot was called Nomads. It would have been picked up, but It was to expensive for the CW.
awesome, thanks for the info
Maybe I’m the only one, but I kind of liked Kalinda with the scruffy male detective.
I’m with you Flyer! I was beginning to really like Kalinda with Tony. I always thought he was kinda hot. Oh well maybe he did dump her after the dirty cop episode. I love GW and am enjoying my repeats on Tuesday nights during the summer. Just can’t wait until the crew comes back.