Dirty Dancing star Kelly Bishop revealed she’s barely aged a day in nearly 40 years.
The actress, 80, appeared on The Morning Show on Tuesday to talk about her career.
Kelly played Marjorie Houseman, mother to Jennifer Grey’s ‘Baby’ Houseman in the classic 1980s flick.
Instead of a the red-ringed, wavy hair she had in the famous film, Kelly now sports a shorter, straighter style, with a dark brown colour.
However she was unmistakably the same youthful star during the rare Australian TV interview.
And in the chat, the Hollywood star revealed that she got the iconic role in the dancing film by a strange twist of fate.
Dirty Dancing star Kelly Bishop has debuted a brand new look. The actress, 80, appeared on The Morning Show on Tuesday to talk about her career. Pictured with Jerry Orbach, who played her husband Jake Houseman in the iconic movie
Kelly told hosts Larry Emdur and Sally Bowrey that she was originally cast as a married woman who was taking lessons from Johnny Castle, Patrick Swayze’s character.
‘But I went [to the set] and they all started staring at me and having me stand next to this one and that one,’ the veteran actress told.
‘And that’s when they said to me, “we released the woman who was playing the mother and we were wondering if you’d like to take over the role…today.”‘
Kelly said she was shocked by the offer, but the producer coaxed her into accepting.
‘The producer said the magic words, she said “if you do it, you’ll start today and you’ll work on the film until the very end,”‘ she added.
The actress also spoke about her time on the hit TV series Gilmore Girls.
Kelly played the matriarch of the Gilmore family, mother to Lorelai and grandmother to Rory.
She said she was ‘fascinated’ that the show, which ran from 2000-2007, with a revival series in 2016, still had an audience.
Instead of a the red-ringed, wavy hair she had in the famous film, Kelly now sports a shorter, straighter style, with a dark brown colour
Bishop is also known for her role as Lorelai’s mother Emily in Gilmore Girls. Pictured in 2016
‘I loved the show, I loved it when we did it. I thought it didn’t get enough viewership and I thought it would go on.
‘I never imagined it would be what it’s doing now. Because of Netflix, I guess basically we just keep growing the audiences.’
Gilmore Girls premiered in 2000 on the WB, with the series finale in 2007 on The CW in the US and Channel Nine in Australia.
It ran for seven seasons chronicling the lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother and daughter with just a 17 year age difference living in a storybook Connecticut town called Stars Hollow.
Lorelai’s relationship with her wealthy parents, played by Bishop and the late, great Edward Hermann, is strained at best but both sides try to get along.
The cast included Melissa McCarthy, Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, Adam Brody, Scott Patterson and a host of other now very familiar names in one of their earliest roles.
A four part Gilmore Girls special aired on Netflix in 2016 and picked up nine years after the series ended.
That special also ended with the cliffhanger – with Rory revealing she was pregnant in the last seconds of the limited series.
She told The Morning Show she was ‘fascinated’ that the soap, which ran from 2000-2007, with a revival series in 2016, still had an audience. ‘I loved the show, I loved it when we did it. I thought it didn’t get enough viewership and I thought it would go on
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