BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP – "Designing Women" creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason wrote once that the character of the actress Jean Smart in the comedy of 1980 had "legs that stretched for five or six miles, and one of those laughs makes you feel like riding in a convertible. "
Some 25 years later, it seems girl next to Smart, legs and laughter are intact, so his casting of the midwife second wife of Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, the most surprising – except itself smart.
"The thing is that I started in theater, so it always made all kinds of parts – all ages, all types of parts," Smart said recently while promoting the television movie "William Catherine: A Royal Romance , "which debuts Saturday night (9 pm ET on the Hallmark channel." And in fact, Camilla was adorable when they were younger. "
Smart said he hopes the film, which follows William and Catherine the introduction of the proposal throws new light and positive Bowles, "the true love of Charles' life," as Smart. Bowles was widely maligned by the public and press — especially in the wake of Princess Diana’s untimely death in 1997.
«Yes, there are a couple of moments where she has a nice, self-deprecating sense of humor about herself and the fact it’s taken a gaggle of stylists to kind of put her together and everything, and it’s kind of nice,» Smart said. «I really liked the way she was portrayed in the script, and a very sympathetic, likeable character, and I thought she … deserved that. «
The Seattle-born Smart will likely always be best known as Charlene Olivia Frazier Stillfield, the naïve but huge-hearted office manager at Atlanta’s Sugarbaker design firm, on the first five seasons (1986-91 of the sitcom «Designing Women.»
«Oh, yeah, it was a great job,» Smart recalled. «And we had a blast. And we’re all still friends. And we’re devastated by losing Dixie.»
Costar Dixie Carter died in April 2010 following complications from endometrial cancer. She was just 70.
«Oh, she was something else,» Smart noted, with a wistful smile. «And we all (the «Designing Women» leads went to the funeral in Tennessee, her little hometown in Tennessee. Annie (Potts and I flew down together. We met Delta (Burke,» Smart then pursed her lips and looked away, unable to continue for a few seconds, but then noting that Carter’s husband, actor Hal Holbrook, was «doing pretty well, considering they were inseparable. "
Since leaving "Designing Women", Smart has made a career in television enjoyed many highs: two Emmys for guest appearances on "Frasier" (2000, 2001, a key role in the drama "24" in 2006, he won the Emmy for drama series and one of their own selfish Emmys for playing the mother Christina Applegate's comedy "Samantha Who?" (2008.
Smart was killed at the end of the first season of "Hawaii Five-0" in the spring, but admitted flying to Honolulu for his role from time to time as governor of Hawaii was not a tropical vacation. He said he would arrive, at 4 am to work, and hurry to be back on a plane to Los Angeles to be with her recently adopted toddler, Bonnie. (Smart is married to actor Richard Gilliland, and they also have an adult son, Connor.
That said, she loved the series’ hunk factor, supplied by stars Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan and Daniel Dae Kim. «All three of them!» she exclaimed. «I mean Daniel, Daniel Dae Kim. I have this friend. She’s this darling, very southern, very Christian, married to a cute doctor, but she said (Smart breaks into a Southern accent, ‘Oh my god! If I met him, I think I’d just have to lick him. He was wearing those too-tight pants and that bulletproof vest. Oh my god! You worked with him. I’m going to have to lick you the next time I see you,’» she recounted, laughing.
On the horizon for Smart: possibly another play for the 2001 Tony nominee for the comedy «The Man Who Came to Dinner,» and a small role in a Meryl Streep film .
«I never was an ingenue,» Smart said. «So thank god. If I was, I mean, I can’t imagine how depressing that would be right around now. So, in many ways I do feel as if in the last several years I’ve sort of been in my prime in terms of work and things.
«So, it’s fun,» Smart continued. «But I do feel fortunate, because I know there’s just not much out there at all for women __ (Smart whispers __ my age.»
Smart turns 60 on Sept. 9.
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