Lauren Lapkus Reacts to ‘Good Girls’ Cancellation: It’s ‘Disappointing’ and a ‘Letdown’ to Not Wrap Up the Series
06.04.2022 - 18:15
/ usmagazine.com
Beth, Annie and Ruby’s open-ended fate on Good Girls was a bummer for guest star Lauren Lapkus, too.
“It was so disappointing. I mean, I know there were rumors of what was maybe going to happen and how it was going to work out,” Lapkus, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Straight Talk Wireless. “That’s the hard thing about a show being canceled without that warning is that they didn’t get to sum up all of the stories the way they would’ve wanted to, I’m sure. So that’s the tricky part is, I think, it can be a little bit of a letdown when you can’t wrap it all up in a nice bow.”
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The NBC dramedy was abruptly canceled last year even though production was tentatively set to begin in spring 2022. Lapkus joined the series in 2020 as Phoebe Donnegan, an FBI agent who starts to investigate Beth (Christina Hendricks), Annie (Mae Whitman) and Ruby’s (Retta) involvement in circulating counterfeit bills. The comedian doesn’t know how the series would have eventually ended — and didn’t get any heads up about story lines before receiving a new script.
“I wasn’t given information in advance because I was a guest actor. I don’t know if the main cast knew how it was gonna end, but it was news to me,” she explained to Us. “So that was kind of exciting as I was working as a character to figure out what was going on because somethings that happened were so crazy. … It’s exciting to be part of something where you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
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At one point, it appeared Agent Donnegan was trying to buddy up to Beth. However, Lapkus highly doubts they would have gotten close by the series’ end.
“Oh my God. I mean, I feel like I don’t imagine