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Christina Applegate Reveals MS Diagnosis
The information is catching up to Jen and Judy.
Dead to Me's starring housewives Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) formed a choky enslaved implicit the crimes they each committed successful play one—with Jen sidesplitting Steve (James Marsden), and Judy being the operator successful the hit-and-run that killed Jen's husband, Ted. But successful the trailer for the 3rd and last play of the Netflix achromatic comedy, 1 of those secrets wont enactment buried for agelong arsenic Steve's assemblage is yet discovered by police.
As Ben, Steve's duplicate member besides played by Marsden, reveals to Judy arsenic she and Jen retrieve successful a infirmary pursuing their ain hit-and-run accident, "They recovered Steve."
Jen instantly hits back, saying, "Oh, for f--k's sake!"
The trailer past follows Jen and Judy arsenic they enactment erstwhile again to screen their tracks by burning grounds and lying to the police. But, clearly, the champion friends can't control every obstacle successful their way.
"Remember that thoroughfare camera footage you asked maine to delete?" Jen's erstwhile neighbour Jeff (Marc Evan Jackson) asks her. "I didn't."
Jeff's caller fellow past jokes that they indispensable person "murdered a antheral successful acold blood" connected the footage, causing the 2 friends to laughter a little too knowingly.
As for Ben? Well, he's engaged covering up for the information that he was the 1 who T-boned Jen and Judy successful the play 2 finale.
The decision for Dead to Me arrives aboriginal this month, aft being delayed by some the COVID-19 pandemic and Applegate's MS diagnosis, which she archetypal shared successful Aug. 2021.
Applegate opened up to The New York Times on Nov. 2 about her caller normal, revealing that she was adamant connected finishing the bid with Cardellini, who she called "my champion, my warrior, my voice." While the publication seldom required changes, determination were immoderate adjustments successful blocking—Jen opened doors, for example, and determination were less shots of Judy entering a room. In a "terrible coincidence," the portion notes, overmuch of the last play concerns illness—a crippled enactment that was written earlier Applegate's diagnosis.
And portion Applegate knows that fans volition beryllium focusing connected her caller appearance—revealing that she has "put connected 40 pounds" and "can't locomotion without a cane"—she hopes they tin accidental goodbye to the communicative they love.
"If radical hatred it, if radical emotion it, if each they tin ore connected is, 'Ooh, look astatine the cripple,' that's not up to me," she reflected. "I'm definite that radical are going to be, like, ‘I can't get past it.' Fine, don't get past it, then. But hopefully people can get past it and conscionable bask the thrust and accidental goodbye to these 2 girls."
Season 3 of Dead to Me drops connected Netflix Nov. 17.
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