{"id":145741,"date":"2025-01-23T20:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/stockard-channing-says-grease-wasnt-taken-at-all-seriously-at-first\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:21:49","slug":"stockard-channing-says-grease-wasnt-taken-at-all-seriously-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/stockard-channing-says-grease-wasnt-taken-at-all-seriously-at-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockard Channing Says Grease Wasn’t ‘Taken at All Seriously’ at First"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Stockard Channing<\/strong><\/a> was an inimitable force as Betty Rizzo in 1978\u2019s Grease<\/i>, though the movie was never meant to become a huge phenomenon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave [Grease<\/i>] my all, and I\u2019m proud of the performance and proud of the character. But at the time, it was not taken at all seriously,\u201d Channing, 80, told The Times of London<\/a> <\/i>in a profile published on Thursday, January 23. \u201cThe money that it was making was resented. I was resented. It\u2019s a kid\u2019s movie \u2014 it was really pissed on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Channing, who was 33 at the time, portrayed Rizzo, the 17-year-old leader of the Pink Ladies clique, and performed the show-stopping \u201cThere Are Worse Things I Could Do\u201d ballad. (The high school film also starred<\/a> John Travolta<\/strong> and Olivia Newton-John<\/strong> as star-crossed lovers Danny and Sandy.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe depth of the impact is bizarre,\u201d Channing recalled of Grease<\/i>. \u201cI\u2019ve gone through a lot of changes about that experience. I needed the gig enormously; things were not going well after a big, big lesson in show business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite the popularity of the movie-musical, Channing still struggled to book a steady stream of roles and, instead, focused her career on the stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut then I realized with time, how it\u2019s affected generations, especially of women and even some men,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI\u2019m not going to name the actor, but we were in a movie together and we were doing a press tour. We passed each other from one press table to another, and he said, \u2018You were my wet dream when I was 12.\u2019 Oh, thank you so much. A little too much information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Channing has also since relocated<\/a> from the United States to England, where she moved in 2019.<\/p>\n

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