As Willie Garson takes his final bow on AndJustLikeThat, his colleagues share their memories of working with him. thebenlindsay reports
Photo: Craig Blankenhorn/Hbo/Darren Star Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock It’s been three months since Willie Garson died at the age of 57 after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, and this week, audiences bid adieu to his most-loved character over his decades-spanning career.
I knew before we started shooting that Willie was sick. He asked me to keep that confidential, and I honored that. It was fraught for me to know that he was sick with that particular, terrifying diagnosis. We were a vaccine-mandated show, but nonetheless, a lot of our scenes were with a lot of background players, and I had great concerns about Willie staying as healthy as he could while shooting. I couldn’t share that with anybody.
He found a place in a business that he wanted to be in and loved. He almost never said no to a project. He would call me and say, “Here’s where I am and what I’m doing,” and often it was just because he wanted to travel to a place far away and eat great food. That’s what we talked about a lot: our love of food and being in the unfamiliar and finding a local place. The beauty of what we get to do as actors is that we get to be other people and have experiences.
He’s in the first three episodes, and there’s this running gag that Stanford is basically trying to become the fourth girl. It was a joke-y plot thing, but so many things in our show are taken from what’s really happening, and in some of the scenes we shot with him, I did feel like he became the fourth girl. I wish we could have had more of that this season. We all pulled together and tried to fill the hole the loss of that character meant, but it’s very hard.
We have a scene together in the new show where Charlotte and Stanford are alone, and we filmed that scene before I knew of his diagnosis. There was a moment when we were sitting together in our chairs between takes and he said, “That was fun,” and something about the way he said it caught my attention. I look back now, and I feel like he was talking about our whole wild ride together. It is gut-wrenching to think of all that he was carrying at that point.
Patricia Field I had a wonderful relationship with Willie. He loved his wardrobe more than anyone. It was a big, colorful, expressive wardrobe, which suited his personality. Once he saw and understood my ideas, he agreed with them. He really gave me all the freedom I wanted.
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