Remember when Grace Florrick purely existed to cause drama for Alicia Florrick? Those days are long gone. Well, she's still causing some drama, but it's not at determent to her mother. The Good Wife finally fixed its Grace problem. A problem Makenzie Vega was aware of.
"This season she's really able to support Alicia more and I think in doing so, I think everyone's probably to like her more—I like her more," she told E! News when we visited the set in October as the cast and crew were filming this Sunday's episode.
Grace and Zach (Graham Phillips) seemed to exist in the early days of The Good Wife purely to let Alicia (Julianna Margulies) emote or struggle with balancing her life. Remember when Grace "went missing" but she was really getting baptized by an Internet preacher and was later found by Kalinda? Groan. But now Zach's moved off to college (still around in name and for the occasional phone call appearance) and the writers have let Grace grow up from whiny child to asset. She is essentially Alicia's paralegal and it makes perfect sense.
"Grace does have a new role this season. Playing that has been absolutely incredible," Vega told us. "It's fun getting to actually have an impact on what's going on in Alicia's life and actually being able to help out."
In "Restraint," the Sunday, Nov. 22 episode of the hit CBS drama, Vega's Grace gets to spread her wings even more as Alicia and Lucca (Cush Jumbo) find ways to save their floundering law firm.
See how it all plays out on Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBS. Click play on the video above for more from Vega, including what Grace thinks about Jason (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).