![]() ![]() There’s a loneliness at the top you always pay for everything you get. Of her casting as Stewart, Shepherd also fended off any comparisons to herself, saying at the time, “I’m not like Martha, but that’s what everyone thinks - that I’m this raging, belittling person to work with, which I’m not.” (No comment.) “I have great compassion for Martha,” Shepherd also told Newsday ahead of the telefim’s premiere, “and had rage problems on Moonlighting myself, but went through 10 years of therapy to deal with that. Finally, he gave in and said, 'OK, you can put her in the movie, just make sure there’s plenty of nudity.’” He didn’t think I had the experience to do it. Burt Schneider, the producer, did not want me. The last time somebody had to really do that was Peter. ![]() The director, Jason Ensler, saw that and knew my work and he believed it as well. And in that, I said I thought I was the best person in the world to play the part. And they did some kind of survey on the Internet asking people who they wanted most, and it was me. People kept calling me and saying, 'People are saying you’re doing it.’ And it was written about in columns. That just means I’m never going to get the part.’ But it took on a life of its own. Remembered Shepherd, “I thought I’d never get the part, because the minute my manager calls NBC they say, 'Oh, we don’t even have a script and it’s mostly about her as a young woman.’ And I thought, 'Oh well, that’s a big fat lie. “This woman is one of the most fascinating, contradictory characters and powerful people that have been in front of the public in a very long time.” “I wanted the role so badly because it was the part of a lifetime,” she told Newsweek. Shepherd, who’d once met Stewart at a TV programmers’ conference (“I remember thinking at the time, ‘Boy, I’d love to play her.’”), personally lobbied for the role. Shepherd was cast on the suggestion of network star Matt Lauer, who also suggested fellow '70s babe Candice Bergen for the part. On this day in 2003, Martha Inc. starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart premiered on NBC.īased on Christopher Byron’s unauthorized tome of the same name, the primetime drama chronicled the beleaguered domestic goddess’ rise and fall as she faced a criminal investigation over shady stock trades. ![]()
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