“Back then it was bad news.
“[She said], ‘You do know that you may never work in this town again.’
She said it like that, and I literally laughed,” Powter says.
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“I said, ‘I seriously doubt it, but thank you very much.’
I was very polite, but I got that line.
It was very ’90s!”
Susan Powter in 1994.Ron Galella Collection via Getty
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“They wanted me to be that.
“They wanted a trashySally Jessy [Raphael], kind of trashy, kind of combative.
Everybody was doing that thing.
It wasn’t my deal at all.”
“It was an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country.
Check back with EW for more from our interview with Powter.
