Storkard Channing says that the fat was not perceived at first
Storkard Channing has been a force incomparable since Betty Rizzo in 1978 Fatalthough the film was never meant to be a huge phenomenon.
“I gave (Fat) I have everything and I’m proud of the performance and I’m proud of the character. But at the time it wasn’t taken seriously at all,” Channing, 80, said Times of London In a profile published on Thursday, January 23. “The money he was making was outraged. I was outraged. This is a children’s movie – he was really angry.”
Channing, who was 33 at the time, portrayed the 17-year-old leader of the Pink Ladies Clique, Rizzo, and told the show, “there are worse things I could do.” (High school movie Also removed John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Like stars in love Danny and Sandy.)
“The depth of impact is amazing,” Channing recalled Fat. “I went through a lot of changes from this experience. I needed the concert very much; after a great big lesson in show business, things were not going very well.”
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Despite the popularity of the film musical, Channing still struggled to book a steady stream of roles and instead focused his career on the stage.
“But then I realized over time how it affected generations, especially women and even some men,” she said. “I’m not going to name the actor, but we were in a movie together and we were doing a press tour. We passed each other from one press table to another and he said, ‘You were my wet dream when I was 12.’ Oh, thank you, a little too much information.”
Channing has too since the move From the USA to England, where she moved in 2019.
“I loved living here, the friendships I had, I kept, I spent months at a time. And then I was here during Covid, and it cemented everything,” she recalled. “I realized that there is more happiness here. Also, at my age, people get sick, and people die, and people leave. And it started to happen. Now I live here, and I’m very grateful that I was able to remove it.”
Channing went on to insist that “life is very good” for her, denying that she will enter into another long-term relationship in the future. (Channing, who has been married four times, was the last in a relationship with Daniel Gillham until his death in 2014.)
“No, I think it’s going to be such a pain in the ass,” Channing snapped. “I’m consolidating, thank you very much. I am very happy with the friends I have. No. Life is good.”
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