Rita Wilson Looks Back on "The Brady Bunch"

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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.”

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Rita Wilson, born Margarita Ibrahimoff, is an American actress, singer, producer, and philanthropist who has been married to Tom Hanks since 1988. The couple met in 1981 on the set of Bosom Buddies. Known as one of Hollywood's most enduring couples, they share two sons, Chet and Truman