Initially, Steele was cast as Marissa, the wisecracking 18-year-old daughter of Alan Cumming's political strategist Eli Gold, for a two-episode arc in Season 2 during a time in her life where she already felt detached and jaded about the business. Over the past 11 years, the 33-year-old Steele has been trekking to North Brooklyn to play Marissa Gold in both The Good Fight, which just began streaming its sixth and final season, and The Good Wife, its Emmy-winning progenitor starring Julianna Margulies as the titular wife resuscitating her dormant legal career.
"We lived half of our life in this neighborhood."
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"I love Greenpoint and we've had such a fun, free portion," Steele tells me over cocktails and a vegetarian bowl at the custom birch-paneled record bar Eavesdrop, not even a full block away from one of her favorite classic Greenpoint haunts, Five Leaves, at the northern tip of McCarren Park. The following day, he'd move into her Brooklyn Heights co-op.
The Paramount+ legal drama's soundstage, tucked away in an industrial pocket not far from the imposing, bulbous silhouette of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, was a seven-minute walk from her boyfriend's apartment. By "cosmic" circumstance, as Sarah Steele puts it, the sweltering August day we meet in Greenpoint became a tiny farewell party not just for the coming end of The Good Fight, but to say goodbye to the neighborhood itself.
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