ER could have ended, however George Clooney and Julianna Margulies’ friendship will go on perpetually!
Whereas chatting with the Television Academy in honor of the medical drama’s 30th anniversary on Monday, Sept. 16, Marguiles, 58, revealed that she and Clooney, 63, nonetheless maintain a set custom alive.
“It at all times needed to be Carol and Doug, in the long run,” Margulies stated. “George and I, to at the present time, nonetheless signal our private emails to one another ‘Love, Carol’ or ‘Doug.’ ”
Her confession referred to the names of their respective ER characters Marguiles performed head nurse Carol Hathaway, whereas Clooney performed her love curiosity, Dr. Doug Ross.
ER, which debuted in 1994 and ran for 15 seasons earlier than ending in 2009, was set within the emergency room of the fictional County Common Hospital in Chicago. Throughout its time on air, the Michael Crichton-created present received 23 Emmy awards.
Margulies — who admitted she nonetheless will get “very emotional” if she occurs to catch a rerun and listen to the ER theme track — additionally recalled reactions to Clooney later returning to the hit sequence after his season 5 exit.
“My mom stated she screamed, which I believe was lots of people’s reactions. It was the best ending for them as a result of Carol and Doug had been destined to be collectively,” the Morning Present actress continued, including that ER was “accountable” for her and Clooney’s careers.
“I’ll at all times be indebted to ER,” Margulies added of the NBC present.
ER additionally starred Anthony Edwards, Sherry Stringfield and Eriq La Salle as medical doctors, together with Noah Wyle as medical scholar John Carter.
In a 2022 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Clooney confessed that he nonetheless stays near his ER forged members.
“I assume it was the friendship I’ve with all of them and that I proceed to have,” he stated to host Drew Barrymore on the time.
“I had [Anthony] Tony Edwards on the home in Italy three weeks in the past — he and Mare got here,” the actor stated, including that he’s additionally still “really close” with Margulies and Wyle, 53.
“They’re actually good associates,” he continued. “And so I really feel that [show] was a job of a lifetime. And it modified my profession.”
Clooney’s newest challenge, Wolfs, is a thriller-comedy costarring Brad Pitt.
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On the Wednesday, Sept. 18 ,premiere of the movie on the TCL Chinese language Theatre in Los Angeles, Clooney told PEOPLE what it was like working with Pitt, 60, once more after beforehand showing in films just like the Ocean’s trilogy and Burn After Studying collectively.
“From the minute we bought there, it was simply straightforward to do it once more,” Clooney stated. “The enjoyable half is that every one the dialogue of us speaking on prime of one another was fairly straightforward to do as a result of it was enjoyable.”
Wolfs is in theaters Sept. 20. The film will start streaming on Apple TV+ on Sept. 27. ER is obtainable to stream on Hulu.