Primetime Emmy Winner and Academy Award nominee Felicity Huffman lately mentioned her character, Dr. Joan Ridley, within the hit Fox medical drama collection Doc, and her relationship with the collection protagonist, Molly Parker’s Dr. Amy Larsen. Huffman is slated to make her debut as Dr. Ridley in Season 2 Episode 2, which airs tonight.
Felicity Huffman on why she agreed to play Dr. Joan Ridley in Doc Season 2
Huffman previewed Dr. Ridley throughout a brand new interview with Deadline, referring to her character as an “outlier” and an “iconoclast” with “a assorted and questionable previous.” The actress humorously added, “I feel she in all probability slept with one of many Rolling Stones and was in Somalia for Black Hawk Down.”
Reflecting on what units Doc other than different medical exhibits, Huffman famous, “It’s the premise,” and pointed towards the present’s origin. Notably, the collection relies on the Italian present Doc – Nelle tue mani, which itself drew from the unimaginable true story of Dr. Pierdante Piccioni.
Dr. Ridley’s storyline will proceed a minimum of all through the remainder of the season, which has 22 episodes in whole, 12 greater than the 10-episode first season. Huffman clarified that even when the season had a lesser episode rely, she would nonetheless have performed Dr. Ridley due to the present’s “superb dramatic premise.” Nevertheless, she did underscore how uncommon it was for a present to get 22 episodes in a season today.
On why Dr. Ridley has returned to Amy’s life and joined Westside Hospital, Huffman noticed that her character noticed the “David Beckham of the medical discipline” in Amy and determined to “champion” her, ensuing of their friendship.
She continued, “Then there’s a possibility for her to step into the chief of inner drugs function at Westside, and he or she picks up the gauntlet as a result of she desires to make that hospital the most effective within the state or within the nation, or probably even on this planet.”
Doc Season 2 airs on Fox weekly on Tuesdays.
