“My daughters and I watched Scream Queens when they were in high school, and we loved every scene he was in and couldn’t stop laughing. He was the best thing about that show. He stood out, and we knew he was going places.”
“I am only two years older than her and knew zero about her family. Even at 9, I knew she would be a star. When I saw her in Firestarter, it cemented it for me because through the screen I felt I could FEEL what she felt. She never seemed like she was acting a part. You felt she was living the scene.”
“Meryl Streep, who I saw in a walk-on role in a stage play. She had maybe one line, and I knew she would be big. I believe this was before she made any movie. The only thing I could equate would be seeing Elizabeth Taylor [as] a child in [a] small role in Orson Welles’s film version of Jane Eyre in 1943. She was magnetic, [and] so was Meryl.”
“In 1980, a new sitcom called Bosom Buddies came out. It was about two guys who had to dress as women because the only apartment they could afford was one for women only. I kept telling my friends that they had to watch the show because there was this one guy who was hilarious and carried the entire show. The guy was Tom Hanks. ‘Sonny, Sonny, Sonny.'”
“One of the few TV shows I watched with my mum. I remember her and I agreeing (which is a bit of a collector’s item) that he ‘had it.’ I was 16, and mum was 45 at the time, so he really did have appeal across the generations.”
