The day after Lisa Edelstein got married, she moved to Vancouver to start filming a show about divorce.
The actress — who wed artist Robert Russell in May — was still fresh with newlywed glow when she started shooting her new Bravo drama “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce.”
But she says it wasn’t hard to act the part of a woman whose marriage is falling apart.
“In a funny way, you’re in the same subject matter. Even though it’s a show about divorce, it’s a show about relationships,” Edelstein tells The Post. “It’s a show about what makes a relationship live or die.
“And those are all the things that are on your mind when you get married.”
“Girlfriends’ Guide” — Bravo’s first scripted show — premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. after “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Edelstein (best known for her seven-season run on “House” as Dr. Lisa Cuddy) stars as Abby McCarthy, a self-help book author and guru of all-things-family who faces a career meltdown when she and her husband, Jake (Paul Adelstein), separate.
Now a single woman in her 40s, Abby tries to navigate her new life with the help of her divorced girlfriends (played by Janeane Garofalo and Beau Garrett) as she tests the waters of online dating, sees a rival in the “mommy book” world threaten her career and weathers the effect of the divorce on her two kids.
Edelstein says the role made her draw on all the dating she’s ever done — the good and bad relationships — as well as the experience of watching her now-husband (whom she met seven weeks after he separated from his ex-wife) go though a divorce.
“A lot of what [Abby] goes through are things I’ve personally experienced in my 20s and early 30s,” Edelstein says. “A lot of the mistakes are the same.
“Having lived through the process of mediation and becoming a step-parent, of co-parenting with someone’s ex-partner and how complicated that can be — it’s a lot of hard work and it’s not simple.”
“Girlfriends’ Guide” has already stirred controversy for its cheeky promotional posters (designed by Edelstein’s husband), which show the star flipping her bare ring finger with the tag line “Go find yourself.” The art was banned by New York’s MTA — which “delighted” series creator Marti Noxon.
“I’ve always wanted to be banned,” Noxon tells The Post. “I’m the least controversial person in Hollywood, so it was pretty awesome.”
Though the show’s premise is inspired by the “Girlfriends’ Guide” book series by Vicki Iovine — whose marriage to music mogul Jimmy Iovine very publicly fell apart in 2009 — the Bravo series will tell its own story.
“Vicki met someone a year or two ago and she’s remarried already and very settled again — and we have no such plans for Abby McCarthy any time soon,” says Noxon, who has worked anecdotes of her own divorce experiences into the show.
In fact, though first-season story lines see Jake move out of the house, and the two hire divorce lawyers, there remains a will-they-won’t-they aspect to whether the couple may try to save the marriage.
“We’re in a very complicated process, and for sure Jake and Abby are confused,” Edelstein says. “And because of having reclaimed their own individual lives, they are now seeing each other in new lights.”