Squeezed into her heels, Ms. Poehler rehearsed a scene with Mr. Scott and two stand-ins playing Senator Boxer and Senator Snowe.
In her final performance, Watson played Senator Madeline Pierce when La Femme Nikita was rebooted as Nikita in 2010.
JON VOIGHT, who plays SENATOR JORDAN, was asked by a reporter from the foreign press if he thought there was a dearth of political movies.
Perhaps he could share the ticket with Martin Sheen (West Wing).Haysbert jumped at the chance to play Senator Palmer, even though it meant a weekly cross-country commute from the Far from Heaven set in New Jersey to Los Angeles.
Whitlock is Ziegler's foil, a straight arrow fond of acronyms like "NTS" ("not too shabby!"), and gets good mileage, and the film's best running gag, out of his admiration for The Wire (in which Whitlock played Senator Clay Davis).
Nelson also played Senator Mark Denning in the daytime soap opera Capitol (1983-84) and President Harry S Truman in the one-man stage play Give 'em Hell Harry! on tour (1975-77), TVe TV movie Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) and the film Brenda Starr (1989).
It's a bit of a theme: Kelly Ripa, who makes an appearance in the show, is married to Mark Consuelos, a soap opera veteran who plays Senator Andy Guzman, an Alpha housemate whose lust for the presidency may be waylaid by his lust in more prosaic matters.
