Alison Arngrim just looked at the “hysterical” test she took Little house on the meadow.
The 63-year-old American actress and author played Nellie Oleson in the historical drama television series loosely based on Little house on the meadow A series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
On the 50th anniversary reunion little house on the meadow, Arngrim considered securing the role of the bully on the show after facing rejection from previous core auditions The little house He slanders.
“I didn’t read the books… but I auditioned for everything when I was a kid,” she said. “So, I went and auditioned for the role of Laura and the role of Mary, and I didn’t get them. I remember saying, ‘That’s because I’m not a country girl.'”
the Even in dreams The star was again asked to audition mainly because they wanted to expand the world of the Ingalls family after picking up the series.
“Then I got a phone call saying, ‘You need to come down to Paramount to read for Little House on the Prairie,'” Arngrim recalls. And I remember saying, “But I did it. And they showed it. They showed it on TV, which was great. So, what do you mean?”
She still agreed to read the part, not knowing what it would entail.
“Those were the days, especially child actors, they would throw you a page and not tell you anything,” Arngrim recalls. “And so I got these scenes, I don’t know, they didn’t say it was mean or anything like that.”
“And I’m sitting there with my father, sitting on the stairs [because] There were no more seats left at the audition, and I started reading, and I was like, “Wait, what?” “And I turned to my dad and said, ‘This is not a normal part,'” she explained.