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My worst moment: The time Marcia Gay Harden became starstruck by Clint Eastwood and bit her tongue — badly

Academy award winner Marcia Gay Harden stars as a razor-sharp attorney who hires her talented but aimless private investigator son to be her in-house investigator on“ So Help Me Todd.

CHICAGO — On the new CBS legal drama “So Help Me Todd,” Marcia Gay Harden plays a high-powered lawyer who hires her talented but aimless son (Skylar Astin) to work as her in-house investigator. Let the high jinks ensue. “What drew me was the comedy,” said Harden. “Solving the cases is fun, but because this particular genre falls closer to something like ‘Moonlighting’ than more hardcore shows, there’s a lightness to it and humor. And the relationship is so deliciously dysfunctional.”

Harden is known for everything from her Oscar-winning portrayal of the artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 biopic “Pollock,” to “Mystic River” to the Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show” and the Netflix series “Uncoupled.”

It’s one high point after another. When asked about a worst moment in her career, she recalled a memory that took place while she had a break filming “Pollock.”

My worst moment …

“I was shooting the film

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