Linda Cardellini Was ‘Gutted’ Whereas Filming Emotional ‘Lifeless To Me’ Collection Finale With Christina Applegate: ‘These Are Actual Tears’

“Lifeless to Me” dropped its third and closing season final week, and viewers who binge-watched their method by the ultimate 10 episodes skilled an emotional collection finale.

That was additionally true for star Linda Cardellini, who opened as much as The Hollywood Reporter about how troublesome it was for her and co-star Christina Applegate to take care of their composure whereas filming the ultimate episode.

“There’s one line the place I say, ‘I had one of the best time.’ And I feel once we did that within the desk learn, it gutted me as a result of we actually all have had a number of the greatest instances — a number of the worst instances and a number of the greatest instances — collectively. It actually resonated for all of us,” mentioned Cardellini.

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“While you see us cry, these are actual tears of us figuring out we’re saying goodbye,” she added.

Their characters’ friendship depicted onscreen, she mentioned, is mirrored of their real-life relationship.

“We’ll be associates ceaselessly, however we gained’t be seeing one another on set daily. We have been sitting on the mattress and crying and, there was nothing fairly about it — there’s snot and we each look wrecked — and so we checked out one another and laughed,” Cardellini recalled.

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“After which we appeared behind the digicam and there was [series creator] Liz [Feldman] crying and all of our crew, producers — everybody was dropping it,” she added. “So, it wasn’t simply us. It was the entire neighborhood saying goodbye, it’s simply these phrases got here out of Jen and Judy’s mouths.”