Judith Light On “Who’s the Boss?” and Activism
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Actor and activist Judith Light, who has played a wide variety of major roles on and off the screen over the past three decades says that preparing for a role can be a drawn-out process for her. Sometimes a role will begin to click for her “when I put on the shoes or the costume or the wig or the something. Something happens for me.” Other times her connection to the part comes from hours of research or a conversation with her manager.
Light also looks back fondly on her time at “Who’s the Boss?” She admits that originally she turned her nose up at the prospect of being on a sitcom. “I was prejudiced,” she says. “I looked down at the material. I thought I only want to do feature films and theater. That’s all I’m going to do. But when you are getting guidance from the universe and you listen to it, it changes your life in ways that are magical and it did that for me.”