JamesG
05-11-2026, 05:25 PM
In a new interview with THR about her new album 'Sound of a Woman', Rita Wilson briefly mentions "The Brady Bunch", which was her first acting job.
We knew you went to Hollywood High because we just did a story on the museum they have at the high school about their illustrious alumni, which has a small display about you.
They have Alan Hale’s skipper’s cap, Carol Burnett’s TV cap… they need an artifact from you.
Oh my, I would love to do that. Let me know who to call. I hope they have a picture of me as a cheerleader. That’s where I got… let’s call it discovered, on my first day of school, by this photographer, and his name was Albert Watson, and it ended up being for Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
From that I got signed by an agency and that’s how I got into the business. But then being a cheerleader got me into “The Brady Bunch”, because a girlfriend of mine was auditioning, and the role was for a cheerleader but she was not one, so she said, “Can you teach me?” So I taught her a cheer, but she wasn’t a natural.
I went with her to the audition and they asked me if I wanted to read, too. I didn’t get the part she was up for, and she didn’t either, but I got the part of the girl who had to be the good cheerleader who won the tournament.
So Hollywood High, thank you for that. Maybe I should ask them to dig out of the archive a copy of my report card where I failed typing. The only thing I ever failed was typing, and still like, if you see my iPhone, it says, “Sent from my iPhone. God help me.”
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rita-wilson-music-sound-woman-album-interview-1236741922/
We knew you went to Hollywood High because we just did a story on the museum they have at the high school about their illustrious alumni, which has a small display about you.
They have Alan Hale’s skipper’s cap, Carol Burnett’s TV cap… they need an artifact from you.
Oh my, I would love to do that. Let me know who to call. I hope they have a picture of me as a cheerleader. That’s where I got… let’s call it discovered, on my first day of school, by this photographer, and his name was Albert Watson, and it ended up being for Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
From that I got signed by an agency and that’s how I got into the business. But then being a cheerleader got me into “The Brady Bunch”, because a girlfriend of mine was auditioning, and the role was for a cheerleader but she was not one, so she said, “Can you teach me?” So I taught her a cheer, but she wasn’t a natural.
I went with her to the audition and they asked me if I wanted to read, too. I didn’t get the part she was up for, and she didn’t either, but I got the part of the girl who had to be the good cheerleader who won the tournament.
So Hollywood High, thank you for that. Maybe I should ask them to dig out of the archive a copy of my report card where I failed typing. The only thing I ever failed was typing, and still like, if you see my iPhone, it says, “Sent from my iPhone. God help me.”
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rita-wilson-music-sound-woman-album-interview-1236741922/