7.11: Internal Displacement (with Bradley Whitford and Annabeth Gish)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Bradley Whitford returns to gleefully tell us about writing this episode and giving Josh the lines, "I can't act. I'm a terrible actor." And Annabeth Gish joins us, too! (How lucky are we?) We talk to her about the complicated character of Liz Bartlet Westin, whom she portrayed so thoughtfully.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Keishierwe.
0:08.9	And I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.8	And today we're talking about internal displacement, its episode 11 from season 7.
0:15.7	It was written by Bradley Whitford. It was directed by Andrew Bernstein and at first
0:19.7	aired on January 15th, 2006.
0:22.6	And coming up later, we're going to talk to Annabeth Gish, who played Elizabeth Bartlett
0:26.8	Weston.
0:28.0	In this episode, CJ is in the thick of negotiating a deal so that Russia and China don't go to
0:33.4	war over oil and Kazakhstan, when some potentially embarrassing information about President
0:40.1	Bartlett's son-in-law surfaces. Meanwhile, Josh is trying to pressure the White House
0:44.4	in order to have the President and Congressman Santos announce a scientific research lab
0:49.5	opening in Texas, which goes against CJ and the administration's wishes.
0:54.1	And joining us today, Bradley Whitford.
0:56.1	Hi guys.
0:57.1	Hooray.
0:58.1	Let's get this out of the way. Congratulations. I don't know how it happened, but you're
1:02.2	third Emmy.
1:03.2	Thank you and I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
1:06.8	He's done it again.
1:07.8	I was really close to attacking you in the speech.
1:10.9	And again, I would have loved it because there's no press that's bad press when it comes
1:14.3	to my career.
	...

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