is leaving the newsroom — and hanging up her journalist hat — ahead of season 4 of . Margulies, who played journalist and Bradley Jackson’s ( ) ex-girlfriend Laura Peterson, is not returning for season 4, reported on Monday, June 10. The actress, 58, reportedly turned down a one-episode season 4 cameo, with the outlet sharing that Margulies was also asked about if she had interest in coming back for a potential fifth season.
Margulies’ decision not to return was reportedly determined before she made waves in 2023 for her controversial comments about the war in Gaza. The Emmy winner turned heads in November 2023 when she made derogatory comments about Black and LGBTQIA+ supporters of Palestine. Margulies claimed during her appearance on ’s “The Back Room” podcast that Black people have “been brainwashed to hate Jews.
” Margulies took issue with Black and LGBTQIA+ people who were speaking out against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, referring to a Black lesbian couple at Columbia University who hosted a film screening that reportedly wouldn’t allow Jewish students to attend. “As someone who , I am more offended by it as a lesbian than I am as a Jew,” Margulies said. “Because I wanna say to them: You f–king idiots.
You don’t exist. You’re even lower than the Jews. A, you’re Black, and B, you’re gay.
And you’re turning your back against the people who support you? Because Jews, they rally around everybody.” The alum in December 2023, confessing t.