The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies has revealed the reason she turned down an offer to appear in the award-winning series' spin-off, The Good Fight.

The Good Fight – which has already been renewed for a second season, by the way – picks up one year after its predecessor's series finale, following Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart and her lawyer goddaughter Maia (Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie).

Although executive producer Michelle King hinted at a potential comeback for Alicia, Julianna has confirmed that she won't be popping up to seek revenge for that killer slap. Shame.

Appearing at the television festival Series Mania, Julianna explained (via Variety): "The reason I declined was because I thought it would be a disservice to those women and they will carry that torch."

Another actor who seemingly won't be revisiting their Good Wife role is Archie Panjabi, who played fierce private investigator Kalinda Sharma.

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"[A]t this stage I haven't really thought about that," she said to Digital Spy last year. "When I hung up the boots I kind of imagined they were hung up for good."

You can catch The Good Fight on CBS All Access in the US. It's available to watch in the UK on More4.

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