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Jordan McDeere's pregnancy

posted 13 years ago by chrwoo12
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Just been watching this show again with my girlfriend who's never seen it. She pointed out something I've never noticed until now. As soon as Jordan's pregnancy is revealed at the end of Episode 10 (B-12) she starts to show instantly. When she tells Jack Rudolph in the following episode (The Christmas Show) she looks like she's put on weight(and it's only meant to be a few days later), and pretty soon she's shoveling food into her mouth. It doesn't seem a very accurate timescale to me. Never having been pregnant(as I am a guy) I can't totally say this is inaccurate though.

[–] inoe-1 13 years ago

I wondered if Amanda Peet was actually pregnant; in earlier episodes it seemed like she had a bulge and I wondered if the script was changed, but that seems like such a central plot line I can't see how it could.

[–] segsig 13 years ago

She was pregnant and deciding to write it in did change the course of the show!

[–] inoe-1 12 years ago

She had a baby in 2007, but it seems that her pregnancy was such an integral part of the story line that it's hard to believe that the story was changed to accommodate her pregnancy. Lots of shows have had pregnant actors without dramatically altering the story; but the pregnancy was a such central plot line that it's hard to imagine Sorkin making that kind of change.
My question is a chicken/egg thing I guess, but I'm just wondering if that had always been the story and she just happened to get pregnant. Maybe she took method acting waaaaayyy too far; like DeNiro and all the weight for Raging Bull, except not.

[–] segsig 12 years ago

Sorkin talked about writing in her pregnancy. It was definately a curve ball that he swung at.

[–] inoe-1 12 years ago

I'd say he did more than swing; he hit it.

[–] douglasferguson21 12 years ago

maybe it was just me...but amanda peet looked pregnant through out the whole season.

[–] NMLeopold 10 years ago

Yeah, he hit it; it was a fly-out.

[–] gtrgrl89 12 years ago

I recall noticing around episode 7 that her stomach didn't look as flat as it had before. If you watch during episodes 9 and 10 (and possibly 8), they had her wearing shirts with frill on the front, she carried folders around more often, and they often panned away from her when she bent over. They waited until the very last minute to do the pregnancy reveal. But, it sounds like they knew she was pregnant from the get-go, at least according to this article: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/01/aaron_sorkin_sp.html

[–] Ed in MO 12 years ago

I liked the little inside joke that "when a show is in trouble, they always attempt that tired dramatic line of writing a troubled pregnancy into the script to get the public interested and increase ratings." Then right after that, Peete has some spasms and they rush her to the hospital worried that she might lose the baby. (Of course by then Sorkin knew that the ratings for the show were terrible and that nothing outside of divine intervention would save it.)