00:00The Love Boat finally had its Captain Meryl Steubing, but it was still missing one perfect cruise director who was proving quite difficult to find.
00:09The script that I saw had the character of Julie being a real feminist who kind of clashed with the captain sometimes.
00:20It was supposed to be a new idea to have a woman have authority.
00:24Twenty-three-year-old Lauren Tweese had recently quit her waitressing job after landing a string of TV commercials and a few guest spots on Aaron's spelling shows.
00:33I went in, turns out, to be the day before we started filming. I would read the scenes, come out, the people would talk, they'd come out, give me direction, and it was always to, okay, now soften it up.
00:50By the end of the day, Julie McCoy was Julie McCoy. She wasn't a woman with power. She was just another woman on a TV show.
00:59About nine o'clock at night, I got a call from my agent saying, oh, by the way, you got this job.
01:04So Lauren Tweese as cruise director Julie McCoy was the final piece of the casting puzzle.
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