00:00It started out with the one episode, and so I came in just to do the one episode, and I was excited about that because, well, I had seen the film early on in sneak previews and was very excited by the music and the energy of the film and, you know, Gene's dancing and the energy of just having film musical.
00:26There hadn't been film musical in so long, and so it was exciting to see it on the screen and then sort of walk into it a few years later on the television series, and on the day, you know, the day I auditioned for fame, I auditioned for another film that I just knew the other film was going to find and everything,
00:54but I knew my part in the film was going to collapse.
00:57They were going to – I was going to go to Chicago.
00:59I was going to spend three weeks, and I was going to wind up with nothing, really, because the part was going to vanish.
01:05It's, you know, it was going to wind up being cut.
01:07I could just tell, and so I was hoping until that I could not go to Chicago, which sounds so silly because I wound up there at fame for four years,
01:16but this is what I'm saying is it was a delightful surprise.
01:20You can actor – actors never have a home.
01:22This is – we're all lucky.
01:23Everybody who's in this show was lucky to have a home for a while, and some of us have had homes since, theater homes or film set homes, TV homes,
01:33but it's so rare for actors to have – we get gigs.
01:36We never have even a job, much less a job that we come back to.
01:40Over the years, I wound up doing 39.
01:43I looked recently and counted, and it was 39 episodes, apparently, of fame, and it all started to be just one.
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