5.07: Separation of Powers (with Michael Hyatt)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court is looking at a case that relates to Korematsu v. United States, while the White House starts to make their moves towards appointing a new justice. But ai yai yai, we aren’t talking about last month’s headlines—we’re talking about “Separation of Powers,” from November 2003. And this week, we’re joined by special guest Michael Hyatt who plays Angela Blake. She gave us a wonderfully candid interview about how she got the role—and why Angela didn’t stick around for longer.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina. I'm Rishikesh
0:10.5	Hereway and today we're talking about separation of powers. It's episode seven from season five.
0:15.9	This episode was written by Paul Redford and directed by Alex Graves. It first aired on November 12th
0:23.2	in the year 2003. So this is interesting. Paul Redford was involved with the sports night and then he was involved with
0:32.1	West Wing, both of these as a producer. For a long time he had many co-written credits on the West Wing prior to this.
0:40.0	This is his first solo writing credit. It must be very freeing to have worked with Aaron and for Aaron and on this staff
0:49.0	in the collaborative way they did in providing material for Aaron to ultimately write things. Then all of a sudden to be handed the reins and say,
0:56.0	okay, go ahead now. That's your turn. Yeah, it's like Scotty Pippen after Jordan left the bulls.
1:00.6	Coming up later in this episode we're going to be joined by special guest Michael Hyatt who plays Angela Blake.
1:06.5	So there are three main stories in this episode. There's a budget stalemate between the White House and the Congressional Republican leaders.
1:13.5	The negotiation is being handled by Angela Blake and Toby's not too happy about it.
1:17.8	And she needs some additional help to get the work done and she manages to get Donna on her team.
1:22.4	Toby's also trying to do what he can to replace the Supreme Court justice Roy Ashland.
1:27.8	The White House isn't supposed to interfere but Toby asks Joe Quincy who clerked for Ashland to broker a meeting.
1:34.5	And finally Zoe is gearing up to do a high profile heart heart interview with an expert newscaster
1:40.6	who can catch her interview subjects off guard with some tough questions.
1:44.3	Ashland portrayed by terrific Irish actor Milo O'Shea, may he rest in peace? I noticed this is,
1:50.2	well I noticed first of all that his IMDB page lists credits from 1940 through 2004.
1:59.7	That's a career. And this appears to have been among his final, I guess this and spoiler alert one other
2:07.2	episode of the West Wing were his final credits, at least on IMDB. He's got also a massive theater
2:13.8	biography. Here's one role I wanted to point out in the way of trivia. He was in the film Barbara
2:20.4	Leuth, the Jane Fonda, Silly sci-fi movie. Called classic. He played a scientist named Durand Durand.
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