Allison Janney ‘Threw’ Diplomat Season 2 Finale Script ‘Throughout the Room’

Allison Janney is revealing how she reacted to seeing one particular script for The Diplomat.

Throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! on Nov. 4, Janney, 64, defined that when she first learn the script for the political thriller’s season 2 finale, she had a visceral response. By the point she made it to the tip, she did one thing she had “by no means” completed earlier than.

“I actually threw the script throughout the room,” the actress admitted. “It was like, ‘What the?’ As a result of it was such an explosive, such an unimaginable — everybody has to binge the entire season as a result of I’m solely within the final two episodes. It’s such a spectacular ending, I get chills desirous about it.”

Janney’s look on The Diplomat, though quick, obtained each followers and solid members excited when it was first reported by Selection in January.

She performs Vice President Grace Penn within the sequence, which follows U.S. Ambassador to the UK, Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), and her husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) as they attempt to stop a worldwide warfare.

In October, Russell, who additionally govt produces The Diplomat, admitted to PEOPLE throughout a particular occasion for the present at PaleyFest 2024 that she “was nervous, a bit bit” when she heard of Janney’s participation within the present.

“Simply because she’s superior and so good,” the Felicity star, 48, mentioned. “I really like her. There is a scene she does in Main Colours — that film is so good — the place she does this bodily comedy fall up the steps. So I feel I used to be a bit nervous, however she’s every thing you need her to be. She’s gracious and humorous and sensible and funky.”

Whereas Russell joked that she “tried to maintain it cool at first,” she finally confessed her love for the movie to Janney.

The Diplomat and The West Wing, which Janney starred in, share a showrunner, Debora Cahn. At that very same occasion, Cahn defined to PEOPLE that she didn’t need Janney’s look in one other political sequence “to really feel like a gimmick,” and she or he was anxious that she wouldn’t have the ability to create a “distinct” new character for the actress.

“Lots of the best way that I write, I realized from writing for Allison,” Cahn mentioned. “So there are particular issues that I hear that type of come from her rhythms, So these are in all of those characters. I simply did not need it to really feel like form of all the identical factor.” 

Cahn confessed that she then discovered herself “scared” to put in writing for Janney once more. 

“I went right into a full-on immobilized panic for plenty of weeks when the primary large Allison episode was coming as a result of it simply felt like a lot was using on it and I wished it to be good,” she revealed. “I wished it to be good for her and I wished it to be worthy of those guys by way of what she dropped at the desk,” she mentioned in reference to the present’s solid.

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The Diplomat season 2 is streaming now on Netflix.