Alan Cumming shares Eli Gold’s style on Good Wife

The relationship between Eli and Alicia takes a turn for the worse when Eli reveals a long-kept secret.

Even when talking to Alan Cumming on the phone, you get a bit of that Eli Gold vibe. Never mind that Cumming spoke in his native Scottish accent, while the character he plays every week on The Good Wife is an American political consultant. Forget the fact that we can’t see his expressive eyebrows (which make their own statements) either.

More often than not, Eli is blunt with little time to spare for the ignorant. It is this particular quality that appeared briefly during an otherwise pleasant 20-minute chat with Cumming, who now lives in the US and is a naturalised citizen.