Delicious Audra McDonald quotes in the new EW magazine!

Some delicious quotes by Audra McDonald in the February 22, 2008 (#979) issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Hot Off the Set - McDonald on life behind the scenes of PRIVATE PRACTICE:

SUBBING IN: The role of Dr. Bennett was originally played by Merrin Dungey (ALIAS), and when McDonald took over, an uproar ensued. "People said, 'She looks like a man. She's not pretty. She's fat. She's not talented.'" It upset McDonald -- at first. "I started to joke, 'I'm just your average transvestite trying to get a job on TV.'"

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AUDRA McDONALD -- Taking another turn in the 'Sun', the venerated stage actress makes a play for mainstream success (by Vanessa Juarez)

Despite the praise, the actress has managed to avoid acquiring those other diva-esque attributes. "As performers, we're insecure, that's why we get up on stage. It's like, 'Love me! Love me! Love me!'" So she skirts temptation, choosing instead to live in upstate New York (when she's not shooting PRIVATE PRACTICE in L.A.) with her husband and 7-year old daughter. "I love being able to go home to trees and leaves and grass and deer s**t. My garbagemen are so used to me running after them because I've forgotten that it's Tuesday morning and my garbage cans need to be out. Literally, with my Afro out to here, no bra on, in a muumuu, in my bedroom slipprs, I'm going, 'Wait! Wait!' If there were paparazzi, I would never work again."

Gotta love this woman!

the blog she did when working on the new operas for HGO was so good...I looked at their website but couldn't find it. She can really write, and I love her sense of humor.

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Didn't some producers also refer to her as a "regional theatre actress"??

Those were the novice producers of the Cat revival. I thought, Wow even a fool is thought to be wise if his mouth is shut. In that one comment they broadcast to the world that they didn't know what they were doing.

I think Audra McDonald is so beautiful, and she looks GREAT in the photo for the EW article.
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Those people are CRAZY. Audra is one of the most gorgeous women I have ever seen.

She looked fabulous at the screening for A Raisin in the Sun. She is a very beautiful woman.

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Although the "cat" producers may have said those things....which I'm not sure those were the exact reasons go take a looksee at the ABC.com private practice message boards. Those names were used MANY MANY times. So she may just be a closeted message board reader. just a thought. Loves her!!!!

Audra is so fantastic!

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People are stupid. Audra's practically perfect - and gorgeous. The end.

I'm not that surprised by the comments. Die-hard fans of anything are always like that when something like this happens. I remember when the first photos of the girl playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films were leaked, people all over MuggleNet.com were complaining for weeks that she was "fat" or "stupid-looking" or something. Most of them came to love her just as much as the other film actors. It just takes adjustment, and die-hard fans of any fictional phenomenon are rarely welcoming to such things.

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I tell you, just when I think there couldnt possibly be another reason to love her, she gives you another! She has the best sense of humor! And whoever those fools were who hurled the ridiculous and unfounded insults at her would not want to meet me in a back alley!