“You do 50 different Hamlets, you do 50 different actors,” she says. “They’ll all be different.”
“At some point, I actually put the written material away,” the actress says. “It didn’t necessarily make sense with what we were trying to do, which was a drama as opposed to a documentary.” Bebe Neuwirth, who plays DeVoto, was surprised at how low-tech Child’s show, “The French Chef,” really was. “You don’t need actually much of anything to make some fabulous television.”
While Child was repeatedly told she wasn’t “right” for television, she persisted and nabbed a show on PBS that won Emmys and lasted. Key to Child’s success, according to the show’s producers, was her relationship with Judith Jones, the editor who championed her books. While “The French Chef” lasted 10 years, reruns and other ventures kept Child in the public eye for decades.
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