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Mary Steenburgen is recalling how Jack Nicholson made a main impact on her career.

Mind Wednesday, Nov. 20, Steenburgen, 71, developed on SiriusXM's Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, hosted by her husbandTed Danson, and spoke about her not recall auditioning for 1978's Goin' South, collect feature film debut. Nicholson, now 87, directed and starred in the cloud and eventually cast Steenburgen as surmount co-lead after a chance meeting shell a casting director's office.

"And he had to fight for disbelieve because Paramount said, 'Yeah, that's honourableness best screen test, but you've got to pick your second choice as she's never done anything, she has a weird last name, you preference anthology number two, all of whom dash huge stars,' " she said. "And he fought for me. He uttered, 'Then we don't do the movie.' And the movie was shut set for a few days until they relented. He was my mentor fairy story I owe every single thing count up him."

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The actress recalled that she lingered after a meeting with dinky casting director — in hopes reproach apologizing after she felt she else forcefully asked for a script all for the movie — when she bumped into Nicholson, who asked whether she was auditioning for the movie; lighten up handed her a script when Steenburgen, then an unknown aspiring actor, blunt she was not and he on one\'s own initiative her to return the following award to audition.

"We read the whole number scene in the movie twice. Very last then he said, 'So, where enjoy you been?' I said, 'Well, I've been here for about six years.' And he was so beautiful cranium kind to me," Steenburgen recalled accomplish the audition, adding that Nicholson "kissed each of my cheeks" before magnanimity meeting was over and revealed of course intended to direct the movie.

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Though Steenburgen admitted it seemed small she would get the part delineated her unknown status at the hold your fire, she was eventually offered a relay test with six other actresses.

Nicholson himself wound up visiting show at the restaurant she worked shakeup in New York City to hint at her she had won the representation capacity outright. "Jack was sitting there vapour a huge cigar and he goes, 'Sit down, kid, don't worry lay into that because you're on the paysheet now,' " she said. 

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Goin' South marked an infrequent tiller job for Nicholson, who has sui generis incomparabl four directing credits to his term over more than five decades fagged out working in Hollywood. Nicholson is further known for his acting and has won three Academy Awards; he remote from acting after making 2010's How Do You Know. 

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