“I’m just lucky that I didn’t break my nose or an arm or something that kept me from working,” she said. (She thinks the padding in her costume, padding she requested because as several colleagues mentioned, she operates with little vanity, kept her from graver injury.) But she returned to set as soon as her hospital stay and quarantine allowed.
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Her “Mare” accident left her with a cracked a rib and a mild concussion. “And she didn’t even waver.” Actually she did waver, but once the producers assured her that she wouldn’t have to do anything with the sex toy other than cuddle it, she was in.Īs varied as these women are, they all belong, roughly, to the “tough broad” category. “Every single thing we asked her to do in that episode is a difficulty black diamond,” Damon Lindelof, the “Watchmen” creator said. Along the way, she takes out a terrorist and caresses a giant blue sex toy. That role led to “Legion.” “Legion” led to “Watchmen.” Smart’s first episode of “Watchmen” begins with her character perpetrating a bank heist and ends with her crying in a phone booth. “For actors, I think the most painful thing is knowing how much you have to offer and never being given the opportunity to do it,” she said. “I was always kind of part character actress, part leading lady, and they didn’t know quite where to put me sometimes,” she said. In between, the parts were plentiful and very often forgettable. Five years later she played a wily first lady on “24,” and in 2008 she won another Emmy as a supporting actress on “Samantha Who?,” so that was another. In 20, she took home Emmys for guest stints on “Frasier,” so that was one early Jeanaissance.
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She bounced around, from movie to TV movie to network series. Smart left when her contract was up in 1991. “We basically were never apart after that day.” Actually, she first saw him at a table read. The line Smart likes to use is that she met him when he was kissing someone else.
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For hairstyling.) Magic, it seemed, was everywhere on set, plus what Bloodworth-Thomason called “some kind of kinky female pheromones.” Gilliland appeared in an early episode as a love interest for Potts’s character. The show debuted in 1986 and went on to earn 18 Emmy nominations. “We were all just magical together,” Potts said. “Really, the greatest gift that a comedian can have is that kind of authenticity.” As the only non-Southerner in the cast, which also included Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, she also did some killer dialect work.
“There was no discernible difference between her acting and her simply being alive,” Bloodworth-Thomason said. “I’m an actor because I don’t want to do the same thing all the time.” “The night before I decided to take the deal, I really cried and cried and cried,” Smart said. Smart loved the “Designing Women” pitch, but she hesitated, mostly because the contract required a five-year commitment.
When Bloodworth-Thomason began to rough out “Designing Women,” she had both Smart and Potts in mind. She played that jewel thief opposite Annie Potts in an episode of “Lime Street,” a show written by Bloodworth-Thomason. Maybe because, as Melissa McCarthy, who has worked with Smart several times, put it, “You can’t put someone so interesting, so intelligent and so kind in a box.” Maybe because she had a gift for daffy comedy, but veined with melancholy and poise.
But other TV parts followed - a secretary, a prison warden, a jewel thief.Įven back then, no one could quite type her. The show, “Teachers Only,” lasted just one more season. Soon after, producers saw her in a Broadway show and flew her out to Los Angeles to test for a role on a series. She spent a few years as a Marine Corps wife, and when that marriage ended, she found her way back to acting, eventually moving to New York City where she somehow managed to rehearse Lady Macbeth, in “Macbeth,” and a dying lesbian, in “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,” simultaneously. She studied theater at the University of Washington - at 5-foot-9, she played a lot of villainesses - and married the night she graduated. Smart grew up in Seattle, the second of four children.
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