Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!
A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.
I've been a very lucky actor.
For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
I never turned down a mother role.
I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.