TMC
11-09-2016, 06:30 PM
http://www.avclub.com/article/judd-nelson-discusses-his-30-year-career-and-surpr-245373
Suddenly Susan (1996-99)—“Jack Richmond”
AVC: Soon after that, you took your first TV series with Suddenly Susan.
JN: Yeah, I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it’s because I’d met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event. And I still think she’s aces. She’s really smart, interesting, doesn’t feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else’s. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it’s going to be a good experience. And it was.
AVC: Was it hard for you to get into that structure? You were on it for 71 episodes, so that’s a lot more regular time than you’d been spending elsewhere.
JN: Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it’s like, “Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can’t punch the clock at the same place?” So part of it was a kind of exercise. “Can I be responsible in this way?” And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It’d be bad if I couldn’t.
Suddenly Susan (1996-99)—“Jack Richmond”
AVC: Soon after that, you took your first TV series with Suddenly Susan.
JN: Yeah, I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it’s because I’d met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event. And I still think she’s aces. She’s really smart, interesting, doesn’t feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else’s. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it’s going to be a good experience. And it was.
AVC: Was it hard for you to get into that structure? You were on it for 71 episodes, so that’s a lot more regular time than you’d been spending elsewhere.
JN: Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it’s like, “Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can’t punch the clock at the same place?” So part of it was a kind of exercise. “Can I be responsible in this way?” And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It’d be bad if I couldn’t.