.SandraBernhard on beating out Meryl Streep for her part in 'The King of Comedy,' improvising a kidnapping scene, and why Jerry Lewis wrote her an apology letter
Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams
I was very young, and I was full of lots of energy and opinions — not that I’m not now, that’s never stopped. At that time, 1980 or ’81, I was a young woman onstage in the comedy world, which was primarily male dominated, and I was anti-self-deprecation. My whole thing was “I’m not going to be one more woman who puts herself down.
No, it doesn’t, but out of all the directors besides Marty and John Cassavetes, Bob Fosse was the one person I really wanted to work with and never got to. I got to meet with John Cassavetes — there was just never a role that was right. Marty never mentioned anything about that, and I’d never heard that before, but how fascinating. I never met Bob Fosse.
No, not at all. I couldn’t have had more fun. Marty was wonderful, and I think he was tickled by me. I was a kind of person he’d never worked with before, and the script was so different from his gangster films. It was a breath of fresh air for him. Whenever things got a little crazy with Jerry, he stepped in. It was never anything that was going to put me over the edge or trigger me. People didn’t get triggered back then — you just worked through it.
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