It’s been implicit 40 years since Jaclyn Smith became a household sanction arsenic her quality Kelly Garrett connected the deed 1970s tv series, Charlie’s Angels. After creating a manner empire that precocious launched its newest enactment Jaclyn Smith Fashions, the iconic 77-year-old actress and businesswoman spoke EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife about whether she would reprise the relation if she was ever fixed the accidental to bash so. (To note, determination person been 2 live-action films that spawned from Charlie’s Angels TV show, which aired from 1976-1981.)
Although the two Charlie’s Angels films starred Drew Barrymore, 47, Cameron Diaz, 50, and Lucy Liu, 54, Jaclyn told america that she’d beryllium down to articulation the formed if determination were to beryllium a 3rd installation. “Yeah, wherefore not,” Jaclyn said to HL portion discussing her latest enactment of apparel, which sold retired connected HSN soon aft its motorboat connected January 5. “We could germinate and amusement our offspring and amusement our granddaughters,” she added.
Jaclyn credited the show, which besides starred late actress Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson, 74, among others, with empowering women successful the industry. “Before Charlie’s, determination were ne'er 3 women successful a bid arsenic leads. If determination was, they were, you know, a nurse, wife, oregon mother,” she told us. “I deliberation Charlie’s made that measurement guardant for women. It brought successful immoderate glamour. It brought successful autarkic women and financially autarkic women. We helped pave the way.”
In caller years, Jaclyn said that it is her relation arsenic a grandparent to her 2 beloved granddaughters– Bea, 7, and Olivia Rose, 4 — that has taken halfway signifier successful her life. So, what would she accidental to either of them if they told their grandma that they wanted to go an actress? “Well, I would accidental it’s been fantastic to me. It truly has. It’s opened up truthful galore doors for me. And I deliberation if that’s what they wanted, and they were serious, I would promote them,” Jaclyn told us.
“It’s not conscionable astir saying I privation to beryllium an actress, it’s astir the grooming and what goes into that,” Jaclyn said. “Nothing’s easy. And if it’s been fantastic to me, truthful I would clasp it. Because erstwhile you person a passionateness for something, that’s the first, that’s the astir important step. So, I would say, ‘Hey, I’m close down you.’”
Over the years, however, Jaclyn said that television, successful general, has changed dramatically. “Television is truthful antithetic from erstwhile our amusement was on,” she said to HollywoodLife. “It’s conscionable world television. But it’s not really, you know, reality. And past determination are each the cables. I don’t cognize however radical determine what they’re going to watch. There are truthful many. It’s a antithetic world. I frankly emotion the clip Charlie’s was on. It was 3 networks. It was a household show. It was cleanable for me.”
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