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Sarah Chalkeis looking back at playing Becky onRoseannein the '90s, after the audience had already gotten to know Lecy Goranson in the role.
"There was for sure a lot of opinions," the actress toldJesse Tyler FergusononTuesday's episode of hisDinner's on Mepodcast.
While Goranson had been on the hit sitcom since its first season, as the older sister to Sara Gilbert's Darlene and Michael Fishman's D.J., she left after the first five seasons, in 1992, to attend college. That's when Chalke mostly took over the part (Goranson stillappeared sometimes).
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Even though the internet hadn't yet taken hold, Chalke felt some hate.
"I remember being at a Freedom Tibet rally and someone coming up to me. I just had started, and I just made some new friends, and I'm sitting with them," Chalke recounted. "And they yelled at me, and they were like, 'I like the first Becky way better.' And I was like, 'OK, yeah. She was fantastic. I agree. She was great."
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After that, she said, the guy who'd yelled at her came and had a conversation.
"He came back and he was like, 'Hey, I just want to apologize. I've always just wanted to yell at an actor and you were here, and so I'm sorry. I didn't mean it,'" Chalke said the guy told her. "I was like, 'Oh, thank you for clarifying.'"
While, Goranson eventually returned to the role she'd originated, Chalke played Becky for several episodes in the eighth and ninth seasons, too. She also made several appearances on the series, but as another character, after it was revived in 2018 and eventually becameThe Conners.
Chalke said that taking over such a high-profile role today would seem daunting, but back then, she simply didn't consider the reaction much.
"I think the only reason that I was able to actually even go and do the job was because I was so naive, and I didn't actually get it," Chalke said. "I mean, I got it a little bit. I didn't really get it in the same way that I would now in terms of potentially the pressure cooker that that situation was, I think, I didn't fully comprehend. I think it's the only reason I was actually able to even go and audition and be in that room and be present and have a conversation with them. I think I just was pretty young and naive."
Chalke, of course, went on to become part of another popular show, medical comedyScrubs,which aired from 2001 to 2010. The revival, which reunites Chalke with her original costars Zach Braff and Donald Faison, premieres Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Watch Chalke's full conversation with Ferguson above.
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