Filming The Jackal
Sorkin: We had a a tendency to shoot very late Friday nights and early into Saturday and on Friday nights Allison's trailer became a nightclub, dubbed 'The Flamingo' after C.J.'s Secret Service code name.
"We had to shoot it twice because I, of course, did it as Allison and I was really getting into it. Aaron said, 'No, you have to do it as C.J.'"
Janney: It's so hard to really do anything important when you're waiting around to shoot. You can't seriously try to read a book or do anything, so we would play these silly games. One night we were being completely silly and I was learning words to songs to lip-sync them and Richard would be my back-up.
Sorkin: I was working on an idea for an opening for the next script and I wandered into The Flamingo around midnight to find Allison mid-Jackal with Richard sitting off to the side, smoking a cigar and playing an air drum. I just stood there for a second and then said, "We're doing this", went back to my office and wrote the opening.
Janney: I loved it! I was so excited that he did that for me. But we actually had to reshoot it. We shot it twice because I, of course, did it as Allison and I was really getting into it. He said, "No, you have to do it as C.J. and she's not as good at doing it as you are!" Even though she was known for it at a silly college thing she did or whatever. So we had to reshoot it with me being a little more unsure of myself. I actually I did it again on a talk show recently, The Arsenio Hall Show. I'm also known to pull it out at parties.