Netflix star Rob Lowe says The West Wing actress was told off by the show’s creator for giving a “hyper-sexualised” performance.
The 60-year-old – who played presidential aide Sam Seabourn in the award winning political drama – said the unnamed actress had a “heavy subtext” when she was on screen which was “usually sexual”.
The American actor said screenwriter Aaron Sorkin had to go up to her and say the line is “Thank you Mr President” and not “you want to f*** him”.
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Sorkin wrote almost every episode of the first four series of the show, which starred Martin Sheen as fictional US leader Jed Bartlet. Speaking on his own podcast, Literally!, Lowe said: “On West Wing, there was an actress who had a habit of playing very heavy subtext… always, usually sexual.”
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He added: “And not a big part, by the way… highly sexualised. And Aaron finally, he’s there at the monitor, and he’s mouthing the words and doing his orchestra thing that he does.
“And finally he slams the headphones down, and comes up to her, and goes ‘Ah the line is thank you Mr President – it’s not you want to f*** him, it’s just thank you Mr President’.
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“The West Wing is an American political drama TV series created by Sorkin, 62, that was broadcast from 1999 to 2006. Allison Janney, 64, Janel Moloney, 54, and Stockard Channing, 80, all starred in the series – which was set in the West Wing of the White House during a fictitious Democratic administration.
Before Rob found fame on US sitcom, he’d already dabbled with fame having found success on Brat Pack in the 80s. He landed his acting debut when he was just 15 and starring in A New Kind of Family.
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More recently and since his time on the show came to an end, the actor took Netflix by storm after he teamed up with his son on a comedy series called Unstable.
Alongside his son, John Owen Lowe, 29, they made the perfect father-son comedy duo and stormed the streaming sites charts.
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