The actress revealed the unforgettable advice she received from Gary Marshall, the creator of “Happy Days,” 50 years ago.
During her appearance at the global launch of a beauty product, Demi Moore revealed the unforgettable advice she received from Gary Marshall, the creator of “Happy Days”, 50 years ago, before her career took off.
According to the actress, she was 14 years old when she was invited to visit the set of the sitcom and had a memorable conversation with Marshall, who is also known for directing “Pretty Woman” starring Julia Roberts, as well as for launching several successful TV shows.
“I lived here in California and was invited to watch the taping of the TV show Happy Days. And I was very excited to be there,” she said during a discussion panel held at the event.
“The creator of that show was a man named Garry Marshall and I don’t know what I was doing or saying — and I talked to him about it many years later — but he turned to me and said: ‘If you could bottle that energy, you could do something with it.’”
According to a report by People, Moore, 63, said that even though she was very young at the time, she understood the director’s message.
“In that moment, he conveyed to me a level of — I don’t want to say confidence — but a specific direction that I desperately needed; I was able to take something from that, contain it, and direct it toward what I eventually ended up doing in my career,” she explained.
The “The Substance” actress also shared that years later she met Marshall again and thanked him for the words he had said to her.
“I told him many years later: ‘You told me that and it completely changed my life,’” she recalled.
Garry Marshall was an American director, screenwriter, and producer, considered by many to be the “father” of modern romantic comedies in Hollywood, having created genre classics such as “Runaway Bride” and “The Princess Diaries”.
Marshall, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 81, also left his mark on television as the creator and producer of legendary series from the 1970s and 1980s, including “Happy Days” and “Mork & Mindy”, the sitcom that introduced Robin Williams.
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