“House of Cards” scripts terrify actor Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly has been nominated for three Emmy Awards for his role as Doug Stamper on Netflix’s “House of Cards.” Kelly joins “Salon Talks” to discuss the show’s final season and why he credits Robin Wright with picking up the pieces and bringing the cast together after the firing of Kevin Spacey.
“We had the hiatus when the news broke, and one of the first calls I made was to Robin [Wright]. I said, 'We can't not do this,' and she said, 'We have to.' She sounded more like Doug Stamper at that moment than I did,” Kelly told “Salon Talks.” “With Robin driving the train, everyone agreed it was the right thing to do to continue. It very quickly became how.”
It was not an easy turnaround — as Kelly notes, "They'd already had all 13 episodes storyboarded. I was done with my first two episodes." But then, "Robin was the leader. She stepped up and brought us all together and made it happen.”
As far as his character Doug goes, following the death of Frank Underwood, Kelly says that Doug is now a man he describes as lost. "For the first time you see this character who's always had a gravitational pull that drove him with his job and the man he served," he says, "and now they're both gone. You see him trying to figure out what the next move is and where he fits in this new world."
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