Stan: We have not seen one another lots over time, however we’ve got stayed associates. We have now a bond. Pam mentioned it to me a very long time in the past — we actually bonded after we needed to interview for NBC. They weren’t certain about us newcomers coming onto Little Home. Michael known as us every at house and mentioned, “It’s a must to go over and do the interview once more for the bigwigs at NBC. However I do not care what they are saying, as a result of I would like you, so don’t be concerned.”
We simply clicked, and we at all times supported one another. It was snug working with Pam, and the 4 of us collectively because the Carter household. Nonetheless to this present day, it is snug. You recognize, I haven’t got a sister; I do know Pamela has a brother, and I’ve met her brother. I like her, and the identical with the boys. It is by no means modified.
Pamela: I’ll second that. We actually bonded throughout the audition course of. Stan was simply fantastic and made me really feel so snug. Once we did that NBC audition, Stan was the one who mentioned, “Meet me within the park throughout from the studio, and we’ll simply rehearse the scene and loosen up,” and that is precisely what we did. There was at all times this glorious chemistry between the 2 of us.
It has been fantastic to have the ability to keep associates and communicate, nevertheless incessantly or occasionally. We at all times decide up the place we left off, and Stan is at all times loving and type and beneficiant and humorous.
Right here we’re a long time later, and we’re doing this play the place these individuals meet as youngsters, after which their lives are intertwined. We’re the identical means; we at all times come again to one another, and we’ve got that bond. I believe that is why Susan noticed this was going to work, as a result of it was our actual life, and right here we are actually moving into it.
Thanks, Pamela and Stan, for sharing your tales! Get tickets to Love Letters right here, working on the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, between August 21-31.
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