Todd Milliner, an executive producer on 'Hot in Cleveland,' remembers working with Betty White: 'We honor her because she was so full of kindness — kindness to people, kindness to animals and kindness to the world. That’s pretty rare right now'
When we did the pilot, it was such a magical experience and the audience loved her so much, that we looked at each other and said, “Oh shit, we better sign her up for all of this.” She was worried about committing to doing 24 episodes a year, but she liked working with the ladies so much as an ensemble that she was able to be convinced to sign up for the whole thing.
She was a generous performer. Even when the camera wasn’t on her in a scene, she’d be smiling in support of her co-star. Everybody adored her and her talent. There was never a complaint about Betty. On “Hot in Cleveland,” for maybe the only time in my career, there were no problems on the show over six seasons. And with Betty’s attitude on that stage, it set a tone from the top down that we all had to be kind and considerate to everybody.
There is a chunk of scripts every season that you know is great and then there’s a group that you wish were better and a bunch of them that live in-between. Every time we knew we were doing one of those episodes that we wished we could improve, we also knew that Betty could and would save us. She turned phrases or lines into comic gold in these instinctual ways. If she flubbed a line, her timing with the live studio audience was impeccable.
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