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\t\t\t\t\tWhat To Know<\/p>\n
Morgan Fairchild reveals why she turned down a full-time role on Dallas.
\nShe discussed her ongoing television work, including recent appearances on The Bold and the Beautiful.
\nFairchild reflected on her diverse career, sharing stories about her iconic roles in both television and film.<\/p>\n
Morgan Fairchild<\/a> made her television debut on Search for Tomorrow<\/a> before becoming one of the defining TV icons of the 1970s and 1980s. An \u201980s poster pin-up and glamorous leading lady, she starred in hit series including Flamingo Road<\/a>, Dallas<\/a>, and Mork & Mindy<\/a>. A new generation of fans later discovered her in the 1990s when she memorably played Chandler Bing\u2019s glamorous mother, Nora Tyler Bing, on Friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today, Fairchild continues to work, most recently appearing in Ladies of the \u201980s: A Diva Christmas\u00a0and The Bold and the Beautiful<\/a>. ReMIND Magazine sat down with the icon for a two-part interview. Fairchild opens up about her new podcast, working as Faye Dunaway<\/a>\u2018s double, being dubbed \u201cthe poor man\u2019s Miranda,\u201d and her experiences on Dallas and Flamingo Road.<\/p>\n Tell me a little bit about your new podcast, Two B*tches from Texas?<\/p>\n My sister and I started in the theater when we were kids, literally, children. We did a lot of shows together back then. Then she went off and had a scholarship to Juilliard. I was doing a lot of theater and finally got on Search for Tomorrow in New York. We\u2019ve always been looking for ways to work together again. So, during COVID,\u00a0 we started scheduling a Sunday evening call, and that was kind of the genesis of it. Since she\u2019s in Texas and I\u2019m in LA, and about a year ago, I said, podcasts seem to be the hot thing, and we could do it remotely. We started putting it together and making lists of friends that we could ask to do it and finding a producer.<\/p>\n How did the name come about?<\/p>\n Once we got it together, then we had to figure out a name for the damn thing. Everything was either too bland or too cutesy. So finally, I just said it\u2019s really just Two B*tches from Texa<\/a>s sitting around talking about how to save the world. So, my producer said, \u2018You know, that\u2019s kind of catchy.\u2019 It\u2019s Two B*tches from Texas, and that\u2019s basically what we do.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s talk about your return to\u00a0The Bold and the Beautiful<\/a> and working beside Jim J. Bullock<\/a>?<\/p>\n Oh God. That\u2019s so much fun. Everybody over there is so nice, and Jim J. Bullock, I just love. He and I\u2019ve known each other kind of off and on for years, but it\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve really worked together. But they\u2019re just so great over there. Everybody is wonderful and welcoming, which some sets aren\u2019t. Everybody comes over to say hello. It\u2019s just so sweet. So, it\u2019s been great fun.<\/p>\n Bahareh Ritter\/\u00a92026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.<\/p>\n We did one episode, and now we\u2019ve taped two more. I\u2019m not sure when those are going to run, but it\u2019s fun playing a character who\u2019s a little bit like The Devil Wears Prada<\/a>. Yes, me being Meryl Streep<\/a>\u2026 a poor man\u2019s Meryl Streep, and Jim being Stanley Tucci<\/a> whispering in my ear. We\u2019re just having great fun with it. Brad Bell has been just great, the owner of the show. We\u2019ll see if they have us come back and do any more.<\/p>\n How was it filming The Seduction?<\/a><\/p>\n I thought it was very underrated at the time. When they offered it to me, I read the script, and I was intrigued because people forget \u2013 because it was so long ago now \u2013 but that was the first time that kind of a stalker film was being made. Also, the fact that the woman turns the tables on the stalker herself, not being rescued by a guy \u2013 because he killed all my guys in the film. But I found it rather iconic classic, so I\u2019m glad you liked it.<\/p>\n Actually, a few people I\u2019ve seen recently told me that they watched it again, somehow it popped up, and said they thought it had held up pretty well, given how old it is.<\/p>\n You were a body double for Faye Dunaway<\/a> in Bonnie<\/a>\u00a0and Clyde<\/a>.\u00a0Can you tell me about that?<\/p>\n I was a double, not a body double, because that\u2019s for nude scenes. (laughs) I was doing a lot of driving in the film, but technically, I was just a double. In a lot of scenes, if it\u2019s too far away or it\u2019s silhouetted and the back of a head or something like that, it\u2019s probably me instead of Faye.<\/p>\n You did only one episode of Dallas<\/a> as \u00a0Jenna Wade. Is that correct? Why didn\u2019t you come back?<\/p>\n They asked me after Flamingo Road<\/a> got canceled, and it was the same production company. But at that point, I had a development deal for a show of my own that I would be a producer on. So I decided not to do\u00a0Dallas. At that point, Dallas had been on for like seven or eight years. In your mind you\u2019re thinking, do I get to be a producer of my own show or go into a show that maybe it\u2019s going to run another year or two? Who knew (laughing) it was going to go on forever. Maybe I would have just dumped mine and done it because mine ended up not panning out. But who knew?<\/p>\n Any memories of working with Larry Hagman<\/a>?<\/p>\n I remember when we were shooting the episode because some of the actors were not doing real Texas accents. They were kind of doing Southern accents. Larry and I were the only two native Texans on the set. So, the producers said, why don\u2019t you go over and talk to Morgan or Larry and get the accent right. So, some of the actors would come up with their scripts and say, \u2018Can you just say these lines in Texican so I can hear what it should sound like.\u2019 Larry and I always laughed about that \u2018Texican.\u2019\u00a0 He was a real sweetheart.<\/p>\n Larry and I did a lot of charity events together too. Willie Nelson<\/a>\u2018s an old friend. Willie would sometimes ask Larry and I to emcee charity events he was doing in Texas. We would always do it. Larry would always show up in the Stetson and packs of $100 bills of \u201cLarry\u201d money. But he was always great fun, such a sweet, nice guy.<\/p>\n Can you share any stories from the set of Flamingo Road? How were your male co-stars and who was the best kisser?<\/p>\n I never give away who\u2019s the best kisser. (laughing) I don\u2019t want to make that many enemies. I just felt so lucky at that time to be doing a series, number one, but to be working with people that I had grown up with like Howard Duff<\/a>, Barbara Rush<\/a> and Stella Stevens<\/a>.<\/p>\n I remember when I saw Stella when I was a kid on Ben Casey<\/a>, and I just thought she was the most beautiful thing in the world. My mother was so excited that Barbara was going to be my mother, \u2019cause she\u2019s such a lady. They were all just wonderful, and it\u2019s just great to work with people that you\u2019ve grown up watching.<\/p>\n I remember it was always fun watching Howard<\/a> (Duff) and Kevin<\/a> (McCarthy) at the dinner scenes because Kevin had every old actor trick in the book to try to steal the scene, and sometimes Howard would fall asleep.<\/p>\n Back in the day, they would send us to TV affiliates where you\u2019d go into a town, or people would come here, and you\u2019d go from hotel room to hotel room, and we\u2019d do interviews.<\/p>\n They would send Howard and me out together, and we were very silly. (laughs). People would say, \u2018You guys should do a nightclub act.\u2019 \u00a0Howard was very funny and dry, and we had a great time together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Archuleta\/Getty Images; Everett Collection What To Know Morgan Fairchild reveals why she turned down a full-time role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-387347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Episode](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bold-and-beautiful-fairchild-2026-scaled.jpg\")
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