Katey Sagal shares her experience growing up in the industry and her rockstar pursuits

you on the other hand grew up with a family that was in the business a successful family um that you know I always say wow that's that's exciting but two twofold longevity being able to have a career that you've had is I mean you can get your foot in you can get your foot in the door but to stay in and continue to do great work and push yourself that but also there was probably things missing that normal kids would have dealt with absolutely my well my family was in the business but my you know my family my father was a director so I didn't see him much this was in early days of episodic television and so he was gone a lot um it yeah it looked good from the outside but it was definitely um what when I'm you know I have brothers and sisters so I always have to tread lightly on what I say because it's interesting how everybody has a different perspective of their upbringing for me it felt really isolated I felt you know even though I'm one of five I sort of felt like we all had our own little areas and um you know there was a lot of uh my mother wasn't well most of my life my mother was uh died very young and so did my dad so um um and in terms of getting me in the door I didn't want to be an actor so I was a musician and that's what I was going to do and my father which I look back in hindsight now he wanted to make sure I'd have health insurance so he got me a sag card by putting me in a couple of TV shows well were they I was in a I was in a couple of episodes of Columbo wow and then I was in a TV movie with Dean Stockwell called the failing of Raymond where I literally played and I was really stoned at this time in my life I was like 15 16 years old smoking a lot of weed so it was easy for me to because I just played this like spaced out girl in a in a mental institution and but in hindsight I realized I thought my father was always pushing me in a way that I didn't I just wanted to play music and I would say to him no I'm not going to be an actor but now I look back and I think oh well thank God he did that you know because that getting that card and getting in that door is really it's major that's a hard hard move to get in did you did you love acting once you started doing it more and more you know or was it always music first still to this day do you think music still is kind of up there well no no now I really love being an actor but I'm one of these I learned on the job you know when I got my first series which was a show with Mary Tyler Moore I had no idea what I was doing and I was so full of [ __ ] I just acted like I knew what I was doing and you know I had come from I had done um mostly I toured with bands all through my 20s that's just what I did and I made records and and then all of a sudden I was in a rock opera and then people from CBS wanted me to come in and read for a comedy I thought it was a joke I didn't know what was happening so I'm just I'm really able to be like um a chameleon a chameleon yes I'm really which is kind of like a character flaw and also a a boon you know like a good thing so I could sort of melt into what I mean now I love being an actor but I remember when I was UN Married with Children I had a band and I would go play on the weekends and I kept thinking like I got to keep my real gig because this is not going to last this is going to of people start coming to the shows to see Married with Children to that saw Married with Children to your gigs um yeah I would get people to come but I was like you know um I couldn't go on the road really at that point so I was just like in Hollywood I was just like you know you're too young to remember all this but the I'm 52 in July do you know when The Viper Room was the central I no used to be called the central he called me out there you go do you remember Club lingerie uh I remember it I remember the name I remember Club lingerie okay so I used to play all Madame Wongs do you remember Madam Wongs no see Blue Lagoon I remember the movie The Blue Lagoon no no there was a club in Marina and the marina no it was really like you know it was kind of the 80s rock La punk rock scene and so I was sort of you know in my paper mini dress rocking it

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Length: 4min 20sec (260 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2024