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Jaclyn Smith revealed she turned down an opportunity to play a Bond girl in “Moonraker” because of her Texas upbringing.
“I had a statement [for ‘Charlie’s Angels’] and, you know, Houston upbringing, you travel your contract,” nan actress, 80, said astatine PaleyFest’s “Charlie’s Angels” 50th anniversary reunion. “And Aaron [Spelling] was nan first to induce maine to nan party, truthful I was honoring my contract.
“And I deliberation it wasn’t meant to be. I deliberation things hap for a reason, I really do, truthful I person nary complaints.”
Smith was offered nan portion of Dr. Holly Goodhead successful nan 1979 Bond movie starring Roger Moore. The portion yet went to “The Way We Were” character Lois Chiles.
Smith besides revealed that she was considered for “Beetlejuice,” a conception she admitted she “didn’t understand.”
“I know, sad. My hubby regrets that,” she added, reacting to nan audience.
“But you publication a script, and it doesn’t ever ringing existent to you, and it’s astir what you tin bring to it,” she explained.
Smith didn’t opportunity what “Beetlejuice” portion she was considered for. The film’s female leads yet ended up being Catherine O’Hara, Geena Davis and a young Winona Ryder.
Smith added that, astatine 1 point, she and John Travolta were expected to prima other each different successful nan seductive romance “9½ Weeks.”
“But I wasn’t really correct for that 1 either,” she admitted. “So, that was Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. You know, it happens. But, you know, I think, certainly, I look astatine my life arsenic what’s meant to beryllium will be, and it’s been a bully journey. It’s really been a bully journey.”
She besides starred successful nan critically acclaimed TV movie “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,” “The Bourne Identity” miniseries successful 1988 and had recurring roles connected “Becker,” “The District,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “All American.”
Smith besides said that “Charlie’s Angels” was primitively aired arsenic a two-part movie, and moreover arsenic its assemblage grew, nan web “didn’t judge successful nan show.”
“It went done nan roof,” Smith said of nan aviator episode, “and they thought, ‘This is simply a fluke, we gotta do it again. This can’t be. No one’s going to — this doesn’t person endurance.’”
She said nan web aired nan aviator for a 2nd nighttime to even higher ratings.
“And that’s Aaron’s genius,” she mused. “I deliberation he had an small heart astir what nan nationalist wanted to see.
“So, I didn’t understand nan web not — his way grounds was amazing. They conscionable thought these women successful men’s roles, this is not going to work. They didn’t moreover bid a afloat play of episodes.”
It wasn’t until nan show remained successful nan apical 10 that nan web yet realized they had a hit, she said.
Kate Jackson also lamented that she wasn’t capable to prima successful nan 1979 movie “Kramer vs. Kramer” portion that went to Meryl Streep, who ended up winning her first Academy Award for nan role.
“They changed nan schedule for nan movie 4 times,” a frank Jackson told moderator George Pennacchio aft asking him, “Do you want nan truth?”
“And each clip Aaron would look astatine nan ‘Charlie’s Angels’ schedule and say, ‘Ah, gee, we had to alteration our schedule. Now it doesn’t activity here, present and here. So, he didn’t fto maine do it. So, I decided then, ‘I’ll do this twelvemonth and then, adios.’”
