The actress revisits her short-lived 2000 sitcom flop on David Duchovny’s “Fail Better” podcast.
Not evenBette Midleris immune to career flops.
See:Bette, her short-lived CBS sitcom.
Lindsay Lohan and Bette Midler on ‘Bette’.CBS via Getty
“I did a television show,Bette.Does it get any more generic than that?
A big, big, big mistake,” Midler said.
“I think for several reasons.
It was the wrong motivation.
It was a part of the media I simply did not understand.
I enjoyed it, But I didn’t know what it meant to make it.”
“I had made theatrical live events.
I had made films.
I had made variety television shows.
I had been on talk shows.
But I had never done a situation comedy,” she continued.
“I didn’t realize what the pace was.
And I didn’t understand what the hierarchy was.
And no one bothered to tell me.”
“Well, I was kicked to the curb immediately,” Midler said.
“And I didn’t know what to do about it.
I mean, all the signs were there.
I didn’t know that I could have taken charge.”
“So Lindsay Lohan left the building and I said, well, now what do you do?
And the studio didn’t help me.
It was extremely chaotic .
I couldn’t speak to the showrunner.
I couldn’t make myself clear.”
The mad scramble to keep up was just too intense," she said.
Despite the scramble, Lohan appears to have fond memories from the show.
Listen to Midler’s interview with Duchovny above.
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