Game of Thrones Star Rose Leslie Joins The Good Wife Spinoff

The Good Wife and Game of Thrones is finally colliding. No, Diane Lockhart is not taking the Iron Throne (though she so would), Rose Leslie has joined the cast of the upcoming Good Wifespinoff.

Leslie will play Maia, Diane’s (Christine Baranski) goddaughter who joins up with her after passing the bar exam. According to CBS, the character is a “key part of Diane’s plan for the future.”

“We’re thrilled to have Rose on board,” Robert and Michelle King, executive producers, said in a statement. “We needed a young actress who could hold her own with Christine Baranski andCush Jumbo, and Rose is perfect. She’s real, she’s strong and she can play comedy. If we designed an actress from the ground up, we couldn’t have done better.”