“That’s one of the things that’s always been so clever about Sami.
She wasn’t the vixen.
ET) Sweeney humbly looks back at her 37-year-plus long career.
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“I’m a working mom and I’m married to a cop.
I feel like a lot of other moms out there,” she admits.
“I try not to get caught up in the whole Hollywood-ness of it all.”
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“It was the first time a sitcom had ever addressed the real social issue of child abuse.
It was really powerful.”
I mean, she had a whole story mapped out for me.”
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“My character had a nasty habit of going into a trance and saying goodbye to people.
Then they would die.
Her mother dies and then her boyfriend, and then her sister’s boyfriend dies.
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One could argue she just had foresight, right?
Other people would say, ‘Oh I think she was killing people.’
It airs like almost once a year.
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People always Tweet or Instagram me when they catch the episode.
That show still has another life.
It’s kind of funny.”
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He thought I should take a break from all the auditioning and focus on my schoolwork.
Just one more time!
So I went in and auditioned for [former casting director] Fran Bascom.
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She was so nice to me in the room!
I had a screen test two days later.
I got to go to the studio in Burbank and screen test with Patrick Muldoon.
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I had such a crush on him that I blushed bright red.
The producer at the time said that was a big part of how I got the job.
I was able to stay at my school and I would film in the afternoons.
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For my senior year, I was applying to colleges like normal.
My dad was really serious about it, even though I had a three-year contract with Days.
I took my SATs and toured colleges.
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Kids go to four years of college to have the opportunity she has.
When she gets fired, we’ll accept her but don’t make her give up this opportunity.'
I’m so grateful.
That turned my dad around!"
It was just so funny.
We all had our suspicions.
It was so fun.
They even had a spoof of him onFriends.I was asked to play the role of Jessica.
It was just hilarious to play the role of a bitchy soap star."
Because I was the slowest, I was going to be eliminated.
I cannot let him down and not finish this challenge!'
Joe said, ‘If you don’t do it, we’ll just cut it out.
No one will ever know.’
I was like, ‘that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, everyone will know!’
So I choked down these worms.
They were sour and salty and grainy, like sand.
It was really disgusting.
My kids still tease me about to this day."
I was floored and excited.
I was still working atDOOLso I had to navigate that situation with [DOOLEP] Ken Corday.
I’m so grateful to him.
I’m still friends with a bunch of them who stayed in touch.
What that show did was to help people have a conversation about how to be healthier.
We can all use more of that.
It’s about taking care of yourself, being important to yourself.
The other important message was how it’s never too late!
We had grandparents and former athletes and people who had never worked out.
you’re able to always start today to take one step in the right direction."
“I was on consistently from 1993 to 2014.
And then I left and had the big goodbye.
They asked me if I would come back to be part of the funeral.
I remember being so upset about the storyline and the idea of it.
He was a legacy character.
You didn’t have to kill him!
My door is always open.
She later parlayed her fascination with true crime into movie franchise for the channel about podcaster-cum-amateur sleuth.
She plays a podcast host named Alex McPherson.
“That’s what is really happening right now.
These armchair detectives are out there, solving real-life crimes.
I thought it would be really fun to mirror that.”
Her next one centers on a self-help guru who operates extreme physical challenge retreats.
But someone ends up dead at one.
Is it possible that person could have been murdered?
“My character is absolutely not convinced it was an accident.
Alex is on the case!”
