‘My whole identity was wrapped up in Ally McBeal’ – Calista Flockhart on her smash hit 90s comedy rollercoaster

‘In the street or at restaurants, people still come up to me and say, “I became a lawyer because of you.” But I just went to work and said my lines!’ I was doing a play in New York, Three Sisters by Chekhov.

We regularly got scripts sent to us.

One going around was written by David E Kelley.

I flew out to Los Angeles to screen test, and I got the part right in the moment.

It was a difficult transition as I felt very much settled and happy in New York and I had only been to LA briefly, to shoot The Birdcage.

I was such a bad driver that I didn’t get on the freeway in LA for a year.

I was afraid of it.

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