During her August 2020 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Cherry Jones said that she compromised her principles when she accepted the role of President Allison Taylor on 24. "I did it because my parents were both in steep declining health. And being in the theater, you get one day off a week. And, suddenly, out of nowhere--I'd been playing Sister Aloysius in [the Broadway play] 'Doubt,' and I guess the people at '24' thought it was just a lateral move from that nun to the president of the United States, and I got the job. And I had never watched it. And I remember calling a friend who I trusted, and I said, 'do you watch that show, don't you?' And she said, 'I do.' And I said, 'is it just full of gratuitous violence?' And her response was, 'it's not gratuitous; he's saving the country.' And that was just enough cover that I needed to say yes to it. And the miracle of that show is that because of that I managed to be home with my parents in Tennessee two weeks every month for the last three years of their lives. And during the writers strike, my mother had had a massive stroke, and I was there for four months. And then Kiefer had to have some minor surgery that took him out for three weeks, and I was able to be with my mother the last three weeks of her life. And we made sure both our parents died at home, which were their wishes. And so, to me, I do have a great deal of trouble with violence, but I sold my soul for that one for the time with my parents."
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