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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 5 of Rooster<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If you need a last-minute guest star for a pivotal episode, who ya gonna call? Well, if you’re Bill Lawrence, you pick up that phone and you dial Connie Britton’s digits. That’s how the Friday Night Lights<\/em> favorite came to play Steve Carell’s much-discussed ex-wife on the fifth episode of HBO’s Rooster<\/em>, “Mr. Razzles.” And in the spirit of Coach Taylor, Britton strongly suspects that she was the backup option for the starting QB.<\/p>\n More from Gold Derby<\/strong><\/p>\n “Playing this role came very last-minute,” the actress reveals to Gold Derby. “Bill called me at the 11th hour and was like, ‘Can you start working tomorrow on this thing?’ I was definitely not the first choice! So in my head, I was like, ‘Oh really, Bill? Who did you really<\/em> want for this?'”<\/p>\n But Britton was more than happy to do Lawrence a solid. After all, the duo go way back \u2014 like three decades back. This September marks the 30th anniversary of Spin City<\/em>, the Michael J. Fox sitcom that gave both of them their first significant TV credits. Lawrence co-created and produced the show with television legend, Gary David Goldberg, and Britton scored her first regular cast member gig as Nikki Faber.<\/p>\n “Bill was brand new at the time, and he was such<\/em> a bro,” Britton remembers now with a hearty laugh. “I was kind of like, ‘Oh God, this <\/em>guy.’ But we’ve both grown up a lot since then, and it was a joy to come back together. Every time I saw Bill on the Rooster<\/em> set, I told him, ‘Wow, you got really good at this!’ Not just from a writing standpoint, but he also knows how to cast and bring his vision to life. We learned from the best on Spin City<\/em>, and Bill has taken those lessons and run with them.”<\/p>\n