From 1985 to 1992, White portrayed the lovable Rose Nylund.
“I knew Blanche.
That would have been easy.
I didn’t exactly know how to play dumb.
The best advice I got was, again, from Jay Sandrich.
He said, ‘Rose takes every word for its literal meaning.
She knows no sarcasm, no nothing.
If somebody said Rose could eat a horse, she’d call the SPCA.'”
So I just think it worked out beautifully.
If I had half the sex life Blanche had I would have been dead from exhaustion."
When McClanahan died from a stroke in 2010, White toldOK!
Magazinethat she was heartbroken over losing her friend.
“We adored each other,” she said.
“It hurts more than I even thought it would, if that’s even possible.
She was everything, as far as a friend is concerned.”
Betty just lapped those stories up."
“She was not that fond of me,” she said.
“She found me a pain in the neck sometimes.
It was my positive attitude and that made Bea mad sometimes.
Sometimes if I was happy, she’d be furious!”
