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Stockard Channing is an unrivaled force like Betty Rizzo in 1978 GreaseAlthough the film was not supposed to become a huge phenomenon.
“I gave (Grease) All my, and I’m proud of the performance and proud of the character. But at the time he was not taken seriously, ”said Channing, 80 The Times of London In a profile published on Thursday, January 23. “The money he was making was angry. I was angry. It’s a film for a child – it was very boring. “
Channing, who was 33 at the time, Rizzo, the 17-year-old leader of the Click Pink Ladies, portrayed and performed the non-stop ballad “There are worse things I could do”. (High School Film also starry John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as danny and sandy cross-star lovers.)
“The depth of the impact is strange,” Channing remembered Grease. “I’ve gone through a lot of changes for that experience. I needed the gig tremendously; Things didn’t go well after a big, big lesson in a show business. ”
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Despite the popularity of the movie-music, Channing was still struggling to book a steady flow of roles and, instead, her career focused on stage.
“But then I realized over time, how it has affected generations, especially on women and even some men,” he claimed. “I’m not going to name the actor, but we were in a film together and we were making a press trip. We passed each other from one press board to the other, and said, “You were my wet dream when I was 12.” Oh, thank you very much. A little too much information. ”
Channing also has Since relocating From the United States to England, where it moved in 2019.
“I enjoyed living here, the friendship I had, I was keeping, I was spending months at this time. And then I was here during Covid, and that kind of cementing everything, ”he remembered. “I realized I was happier here. Also at my age, people get sick, and people die and people move away. And that started to happen. Now I live here, and I’m very grateful that I have been able to pull it away. ”
Channing further told her that she was “very good”, denying that she would go into another long -term relationship in the future. (Channing, who has been married four times, was in relation to her last Daniel Gillham until his death in 2014.)
“No, I think that would be so much pain in the donkey,” Channing quided. “I’m consolidating, thank you very much. I’m very happy with the friends I have. No. Life is good. ”
