Who could forget Betty Rizzo fromGrease?
But, what exactly has the original Rizzo been up to sinceGrease?
Allow us to fill you in.
“I needed the gig,” she explained.
She dropped this truth bomb after admitting she hadn’t seen the film’s sequel,Grease 2.
“I’ve barely seenGrease 1, to be honest,” she joked onWatch What Happens Live.
When asked why, she quipped, “I have other things to do!”
She admitted in aQ&A with the Screen Actors Guild Foundationthat the title “embarrassed” her.
“I felt very uncomfortable about it,” she continued.
She had roles inseveral off-Broadway performancesbefore heading to Broadway inTwo Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical.
“It’s so scary and thrilling …,” she said.
“There’s nothing like it.”
“I felt like my life was back on track,” she admitted during the Q&A.
Channing toldBroadwaythat she originally opened the play in England, and then came back to do the film.
“It was a fascinating enterprise to do,” Channing further toldBroadway.
“You know your lines!”
“Some of the first men in London come through my door,“her character tells Moll Flanders.
“Wouldn’t you like to have power over them?”
The actress explained, “Sometimes, it [was] uncomfortable.”
Did you notice Grease’s Rizzo in First Wives Club?
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The series will focus on Channing’s character, albeit in the 1960s.
The show itself was a mega-hit.
Fans of the show know thatThe West Wingwas super relevant when it aired in the early 2000s.
Channing even confirmed that fans of the series thought that the show somehow knew something audiences didn’t!
Channing played his grief-stricken and conflicted mother.
It seemed like no one wanted this story told, even with Goldie Hawn as one of the producers.
It was stone thrown upon and it made a lot of ripples beyond just being another television movie.”
That opportunity came along with the short-lived yet super funnyOut of Practice.
A pre-Modern FamilyTy Burrell starred in the show as well.
Although it got mixed reviews, Stockard Channingspoke highlyof her experience playing Vera Simpson.
In addition toPal Joey,Channing starred inOther Desert Citiesin 2011.
TheGreaseactress said that working with such a well-known cast of actors was like being on a basketball team.
“It really is teamwork.”
Channing also starred inApologiatwice once in London in 2017 and again in New York in 2018.
“There wasn’t a cliche in it,” she said.
“And [it was] funny, too!”
The star was featured on the show from 2012 until the show ended in 2016, according toIMDb.
Hmm, the role sounds a bit reminiscent of Rizzo fromGrease, doesn’t it?
“I was raised very strictly,” she continued.
As for Channing, she “ran off and joined the circus,” so to speak.
“But that’s not how I think of it, not at all.”
But, she’s been in a relationship with cinematographerDaniel Gillhamforover 30 years.
Despite their years together, the pair, like some other stars, havenever marriednor had children together.
Before her longtime relationship with Gilham, Channing’s love life wasn’t exactly lucky.
She went through four divorces before starting her relationship with the cinematographer, according toThe Sydney Morning Herald.
“The only one that wasn’t a marriage lasts 15 years,” she told the outlet.
“…There’s nothing Hollywood about it.
Nobody gets married expecting to get divorced.”
