What happened wasn't really ever discussed. I think everybody was just happy to be back. We're gonna do it.” What was the mood like on set once you got back to work? She was instrumental in keeping everybody together. Both of us had a very strong feeling about this crew, who had been out of work during a very long hiatus. But as far as her involvement this season? She drove the train. She's directed more episodes than almost anybody, other than James Foley. Robin was the first phone call I made when I heard about what happened. Robin Wright and Michael Kelly on the House of Cards set David Giesbrecht/Netflix When you first heard that the final season of House of Cards was being suspended, what was your reaction ? Here, Kelly talks about bringing groundedness and nuance to his character, even in the mad dash of the show's final season how the winds of D.C.'s latest "Year of the Woman" blew through House of Cards and working with Rachel Brosnahan back when her character didn't even have a name. In an apt cautionary tale for the real-life protectors and enablers in our present-day politics, Kelly played Doug as a man whose devotion to an ultimately false idol has eroded his psyche, leaving him conflicted, struggling mightily to cling to some meaning in everything he'd worked so stoically to protect. With a largely female ensemble dominating the season (played by the accomplished likes of Diane Lane, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, and Jayne Atkinson), Doug became one of few men left standing, the sole remaining devotee to the ghost of Frank Underwood in the revenge tragedy that defined the show. Onscreen, Kelly, whose character had been so defined by his allegiance to Spacey's Frank, would have to step into his shadow as the male foil-or male agitator-to Wright's Claire. "At the end of every season, when I'd read the last episode," says Kelly, "I'd think, Holy shit! I'm still alive?" Over those five seasons, Kelly had also become close with the show's Baltimore-based crew and has since hired them on his own projects, and he joined Wright in aggressively advocating for a solution other than yanking the production from the city. Michael Kelly, who played hyper-loyal political fixer Doug Stamper, had been part of the narrative's nucleus alongside Wright and Spacey for all of the show's previous five seasons. “We all felt, collectively, like, Let’s not drop this ball,” she told ELLE. Wright, it turned out, was not only now at the center of the show, but also at the center of a shared crusade to finish the show-on terms of the actors, writers, and crew could be proud of. Then, last December, it was announced that the show would go on, with Robin Wright's Claire Underwood at its main beltway disruptor. Netflix suspended production on the show and severed ties with Spacey with its final season mapped out, and the second episode almost in the can, House of Cards' future was suddenly in limbo. Soon after, more and more allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. (And it doesn't seem like the rollercoaster is quite ready to let them off yet.) In October of 2017, actor Anthony Rapp came forward with allegations that Kevin Spacey, who played the scene-chewing political operator Frank Underwood on the show, made advances towards him when Rapp was only 14 and Spacey was 26. This year has been a hell of a ride for the cast and crew of House of Cards.
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