“I do remember one really traumatic event. I was excited because I really like the actors, Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff and Janel Moloney, and I had to drive them around. I played a staffer taking them on this campaign trail and I was driving them through Pennsylvania down these twisty, windy country roads in a Jeep Wrangler. We did a rehearsal where I was supposed to stop the Jeep and get out, so I stopped it, turned the key, and killed the ignition, but I left it in drive unknowingly. I got out of the Jeep and then the three stars of The West Wing start rolling away down the road. I was just frozen in horror. There was nothing at that point I could do to help. A couple of crew guys got in there in time, thank goodness. At that moment I thought, Well, it’s been nice. I had done some episodic television and I did a couple of plays. I just thought I’ll never get to work again because I will have seriously injured or killed the three stars of one of the hottest shows on prime-time television.”
—The delightful John Gallagher Jr (
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