For Carrie Preston, slipping back into the eccentric role of Elsbeth Tasiconi on The Good Wife couldn’t have come at a better time. The Emmy winner—she won in 2013 for playing the quirky lawyer on the hit CBS drama—had just lost her father when she returned to work on The Good Wife season six. She said, “This time around, my father had just passed away, and so I went right into shooting fairly quickly after that. It was a little bit more of a challenge this time because I was still—I am still—in the grieving part, but it was a fun time.” Preston has been playing the recurring role since 2010, but said it’s still difficult to slip back into Elsbeth’s skin because there’s usually a gap between arcs.
