[in a 1987 interview] Most of the parts I’ve played have been passive girls who are just sort of there. I have trouble with that because I’m not like that and being passive gets you in big trouble personally. It’s not the kind of quality that young girls should be looking up to.
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Happy Birthday: Lauren Holly
[on her worst audition] Sister Act (1992). I get this call: they’re having trouble finding the young, mousy nun, so they want me to go in. “But isn’t this singing?” I asked. “Yes, they know you don’t sing”. I go in, read the scene, it goes well and the director says to me, “Will you sing a song for us?” I said, “Sing? I don’t sing”. “No, no, no, Lauren, it doesn’t matter that you don’t sing. We just want to see if you look like you can sing – do the body movements and the facial expressions and then we’ll dub it”, So, I closed my eyes and belled out “Happy Birthday” as loud as I could and I tried to put all the feeling and body movement into it. When I finished, I opened my eyes. I’ve never seen such looks of horror as there were on their faces. Then, I heard someone in the back of this group say, “Wow, that girl’s got balls”. It was horrible.
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