Actress Cheryl Ladd just gave a new interview in which she opened up about the late star Farrah Fawcett and discussed what it was like to replace her on “Charlie’s Angels.” She also talked about what it was like to work with Fawcett when she returned as a guest stat later in the series.

Ladd, 68, told Fox News that she had never wanted to replace Fawcett on the show, and that “Charlie’s Angels” creator Aaron Spelling had to convince her to do so. When asked what it was like to replace Fawcett, Ladd had this to say:

Well, that was pretty daunting when Aaron asked me to do it the first time I said, “No thank you.” But he wasn’t taking no for an answer. So he called me in and he said, “Why don’t you want to do it, Charlie, this is for you?” And I said, “Well, first of all, what would I play? Because nobody can walk in there and try to be Farrah Fawcett.” Nobody can do that. That’s not going to work.

And he said, “No, I get that. I get that.” I said, “I don’t know if I could be funny.” And he said, “Why, couldn’t you be funny?” I went, “Oh, I could be funny?” And I said, “And if I’m the rookie and I make mistakes sometimes.”

Because Americans really pull for the underdog. They really like to see somebody try hard, and you want them to win. So we had those two elements. And then Aaron’s genius was when he said, “Well, why can’t you be Jill’s little sister then you’re part of the family already?” So with the girls accept you then … So he was right. It worked. Thank heavens.

Ladd went on to discuss actually working with Fawcett on the show, an experience that she fondly recalls to this day.

“The last time I actually saw her physically is when we filmed together,” Ladd said. “When she came back to do those few episodes. That’s the last time I saw her. [She was] a highly professional, terrific actress.”

“I mean, when I look back and I watched the scenes we did together, I could see us both going, ‘This is going to work no matter what.’ We’re here to do our work, and we really look like sisters. And that was very rewarding,” she added. “But she was happy to see the other girls because she had worked with them that first year, and they become ‘Charlie’s Angels’ that very first year. But she was pretty professional. She just wanted to kind of do her work and move on.”

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Ladd had an especially interesting response when she was asked if she ever felt like a sex symbol.

“No. I felt like I didn’t like to be a sex symbol that much,” she said. “But at the same time when you’re as young as I was, and my daughter was two. And you’re trying to do all of this show, and have a life and all of those things, and people kind of say, ‘Oh, you should do this, you should wear this.’ And I look back and I go, ‘Would I have made those choices today?'”

“Some of the outfits I was wearing, and I didn’t do nudity or anything like that, but still, it was like, mm,” Ladd added. “But when you’re a young woman, you don’t always make the right choices. And that’s a learning process.”

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This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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