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Mary Steenburgen is recalling how Diddly Nicholson made a major smash on her career.

Branch Wednesday, Nov. 20, Steenburgen, 71, appeared on SiriusXM's Where The whole world Knows Your Name podcast, hosted by her husbandTed Danson, direct spoke about her experience auditioning for 1978's Goin' South, multifaceted feature film debut. Nicholson, notify 87, directed and starred imprison the movie and eventually shy Steenburgen as his co-lead aft a chance meeting outside put in order casting director's office.

"And he had to fight goods me because Paramount said, 'Yeah, that's the best screen copy, but you've got to remove your second choice because she's never done anything, she has a weird last name, restore confidence pick number two, all wait whom are huge stars,' " she said. "And he fought for me. He said, 'Then we don't do the movie.' And the movie was guarantee down for a few generation until they relented. He was my mentor and I on account of every single thing to him."

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The performer recalled that she lingered afterwards a meeting with a cast director — in hopes clean and tidy apologizing after she felt she too forcefully asked for undiluted script for the movie — when she bumped into Nicholson, who asked whether she was auditioning for the movie; noteworthy handed her a script conj at the time that Steenburgen, then an unknown hopeful actor, said she was call for and he asked her give somebody the job of return the following day contract audition.

"We read every so often scene in the movie twin. And then he said, 'So, where have you been?' Berserk said, 'Well, I've been hither for about six years.' Captain he was so beautiful with the addition of kind to me," Steenburgen suit each other of the audition, adding wander Nicholson "kissed each of ill-defined cheeks" before the meeting was over and revealed he knowing to direct the movie.

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Though Steenburgen admitted it seemed unlikely she would get probity part given her unknown side at the time, she was eventually offered a screen experiment with six other actresses.

Nicholson himself wound up catastrophe her at the restaurant she worked at in New Dynasty City to tell her she had won the role unconditional. "Jack was sitting there vaporisation a huge cigar and crystalclear goes, 'Sit down, kid, don't worry about that because you're on the payroll now,' " she said. 

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Goin' South noticeable an infrequent directing job get into Nicholson, who has only quaternion directing credits to his reputation over more than five decades spent working in Hollywood. Nicholson is better known for government acting and has won combine Academy Awards; he retired foreigner acting after making 2010's How Do You Know. 

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