{"id":106931,"date":"2020-11-07T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T02:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:22:06","slug":"connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Connie Chung plays herself opposite Hugh Grant on &#8216;The Undoing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3beeffa6a05\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3beeffa6a05\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/#How_did_this_all_come_about\" >How did this all come about?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/#Did_you_make_any_changes_to_your_lines\" >Did you make any changes to your lines?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/#Were_you_nervous_while_shooting_your_scene\" >Were you nervous while shooting your scene?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/#Youve_been_out_of_the_news_game_since_2006_Were_you_rusty_playing_yourself\" >You\u2019ve been out of the news game since 2006. Were you rusty playing yourself?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Connie Chung plays herself opposite Hugh Grant on &#8216;The Undoing&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Do not adjust your set \u2014 that really <em>is<\/em> Connie Chung on HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The retired <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>woman, whose 30-year career spanned broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and cable (CNN, MSNBC), makes an extremely rare <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance playing herself opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> star Hugh Grant in an upcoming episode of the crime drama \u2014 in which Grant plays Dr. Jonathan Fraser, a seemingly respectable, compassionate Manhattan pediatric oncologist accused of brutally murdering his married mistress, Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis).<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Kidman plays Fraser\u2019s suspicious wife, Grace, and Noah Jupe their teenage son, Henry. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Edgar Ramirez and Lily Rabe.<\/p>\n<p>Chung, 74 \u2014 who\u2019s been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984 \u2014 spoke to The Post about her role on \u201cThe Undoing,\u201d which she filmed late last year in the windowed, street-level Manhattan studio of PBS station WNET.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_did_this_all_come_about\"><\/span><strong>How did this all come about?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It was actually the all-girls network. Ellen Chenoweth, the renowned casting director \u2026 was handling \u201cThe Undoing\u201d and was looking for a network anchor who could play him\/herself, but who was not working now. Ellen is good friends with a girlfriend of mine, Vicki Gordon, who was a senior producer and executive story editor at \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Vicki said, \u201cHow about Connie?,\u201d so when Ellen called me and told me it was a Nicole Kidman\/David E. Kelley project, I was in. She said I\u2019d be playing myself on a news program similar to the type of show I would host on CNN, and that I\u2019d be questioning the Hugh Grant character, who\u2019s suspected of killing his girlfriend. I really didn\u2019t know much about the plot and they gave me nine pages [of dialogue] to learn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16579404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16579404 lazyload\" alt=\"Nicole Kidman in &quot;The Undoing.&quot;\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Nicole Kidman in \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">NIKOTAVERNISE.COM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Did_you_make_any_changes_to_your_lines\"><\/span><strong>Did you make any changes to your lines?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\nI looked at the script and realized it wasn\u2019t the way I would ask questions \u2026 the language and approach \u2026 one of the lines was, \u201cWhy did you flee?\u201d Newspeople wouldn\u2019t say that; they\u2019d say \u201cWhy did you run away?\u201d or \u201cWhy did you leave the scene of the crime?\u201d So I asked if I could change a few little things, and [co-producer] Matt Tinker called me back \u2014 he worked on \u201cBig Little Lies\u201d with David E. Kelley and Nicole Kidman \u2014 and I asked him if it would be OK. He said, sure, go ahead and say what you want to say and I\u2019ll run it by David. I thought, \u201cGeez, I\u2019m rewriting David E. Kelley?\u201d That blew me away. Remarkably he was OK with it \u2026 So I memorized the lines I wrote in the context of the scene and when I got to the set, the director \u2026 looks at it and says, \u201cWhat happened to the other script?\u201d I said, \u201cThey let me rewrite it\u201d and she said, \u201cNo, we\u2019re not doing that, we\u2019re going back to the original script.\u201d It was hard for me to memorize the other lines; when do news you don\u2019t memorize questions or lines or anything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16580737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16580737 lazyload\" alt=\"Hugh Grant in &quot;The Undoing.&quot;\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-hugh-grant-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-hugh-grant-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-hugh-grant-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-hugh-grant-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-hugh-grant-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Hugh Grant in \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Were_you_nervous_while_shooting_your_scene\"><\/span><strong>Were you nervous while shooting your scene?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>No. I was fascinated with how Hugh Grant \u2026 got into his [acting] zone. I was sitting there trying to remember my \u201cnew old lines.\u201d I was on the side with Grant, who wasn\u2019t very chatty because he had a bad back, and I asked him if he remembered when I interviewed him for [the 1994 movie]\u201dThree Weddings and a Funeral\u201d and he said no.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Youve_been_out_of_the_news_game_since_2006_Were_you_rusty_playing_yourself\"><\/span><strong>You\u2019ve been out of the news game since 2006. Were you rusty playing yourself?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It was a completely different situation because it was not real and that, in and of itself, was unusual. One thing that was different for me was that we had to do many takes of the same scene from different angles. It was very tedious, frankly. In TV news, we\u2019re one-and-done and we do not repeat questions. We usually have one-to-three cameras all running simultaneously because we can\u2019t manufacture [the interview] again. It\u2019s just verboten. If the [person being interviewed] walks out, then we have it from three different angles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16579414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-16579414 size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped lazyload\" alt=\"Nicole Kidman in &quot;The Undoing.&quot;\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/the-undoing-ep3-connie-chung-qa-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Nicole Kidman in \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">NIKOTAVERNISE.COM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/06\/connie-chung-plays-herself-opposite-hugh-grant-on-the-undoing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Connie Chung plays herself opposite Hugh Grant on &#8216;The Undoing&#8217;&#8221; Do not adjust your set \u2014 that really is Connie Chung on HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Undoing.\u201d The retired newswoman, whose 30-year career spanned broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and cable (CNN, MSNBC), makes an extremely rare appearance playing herself opposite series star Hugh Grant in an upcoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/connie-chung-the-undoing-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[78822,79019,79020,1524,48826,28997,1373],"class_list":["post-106931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-6-20","tag-connie-chung","tag-crime-drama","tag-hbo","tag-hugh-grant","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}