Brian Damage
11-08-2011, 01:42 AM
Is it true that you had to fight to keep the role of Lois after starring in the Family Guy pilot?
"That's very true. When we did the pilot, it was called a pilot presentation - at the time, I was working on a show called MADtv and one of the women who'd developed that series was also working with Seth [MacFarlane] developing his show. She said to me, 'Hey, can you can help us with this pilot presentation?' and, of course, being a total showbusiness whore, I said, 'Yes, absolutely, whatever you need!'
"I met with Seth at a sound studio and said, 'How about this voice, how about that?' I tried a few things that I was doing at a live theatre at the time - I was doing a comedy show and the voice that I was doing was kind of similar [to Lois]. I did it, and he said 'That's great'.
"But then after the show got picked up to series, they were like, 'We've never heard of this person - maybe we should see everyone else who's ever been in showbusiness' and so they proceeded to have a series of auditions. Literally, every person that has ever had a f**king Screen Actor's Guild union card was on the couch to audition for the part!
"It was pretty close - there was another woman that some other people involved wanted, and Seth was fighting for me. Thank God, he prevailed!"
http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/2011/11/05/digital-spy-interviews-alex-borstein
http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/wp-content/themes/mortar/thumb.php?src=http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/alex-borstein-tells-all-vol-2.blog_1.jpg&w=478&h=&zc=1&q=90
"That's very true. When we did the pilot, it was called a pilot presentation - at the time, I was working on a show called MADtv and one of the women who'd developed that series was also working with Seth [MacFarlane] developing his show. She said to me, 'Hey, can you can help us with this pilot presentation?' and, of course, being a total showbusiness whore, I said, 'Yes, absolutely, whatever you need!'
"I met with Seth at a sound studio and said, 'How about this voice, how about that?' I tried a few things that I was doing at a live theatre at the time - I was doing a comedy show and the voice that I was doing was kind of similar [to Lois]. I did it, and he said 'That's great'.
"But then after the show got picked up to series, they were like, 'We've never heard of this person - maybe we should see everyone else who's ever been in showbusiness' and so they proceeded to have a series of auditions. Literally, every person that has ever had a f**king Screen Actor's Guild union card was on the couch to audition for the part!
"It was pretty close - there was another woman that some other people involved wanted, and Seth was fighting for me. Thank God, he prevailed!"
http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/2011/11/05/digital-spy-interviews-alex-borstein
http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/wp-content/themes/mortar/thumb.php?src=http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/alex-borstein-tells-all-vol-2.blog_1.jpg&w=478&h=&zc=1&q=90