Phylicia Rashad Interview – Part 3 of 5
View the full interview at www.emmytvlegends.org On working with Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show, Phylicia Rashad recalls: It was just beautiful from the beginning. Bill gave us the greatest instruction. He said, do not try to be funny, just tell the story. Phylicia Rashad played opposite Bill Cosby on both The Cosby Show and Cosby and received her third Primetime Emmy nomination for the TV movie A Raisin in the Sun. In her Archive interview, Rashad recounts childhood memories growing up in Houston, Texas and in Mexico City, Mexico. She describes her parents and acknowledges the accomplishments of her mother, poet Vivian Ayers. She vividly recalls when she decided to be an actress, after the attention she received (and her later understanding of the beauty of communication from the heart) following a reading at a local music festival. She notes her studies at Howard University and the start of her acting career in New York City. She acknowledges her work on Broadway and how she briefly became a regular on the daytime television serial One Life to Live. She speaks in great detail about the role and series for which she is most associated, Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show. For The Cosby Show, she talks about auditioning for the part, describes her character, discusses working with Bill Cosby (and the cast), and outlines a typical workweek on the series. On Bill Cosbys penchant for ad-libbing she explains: You had to be able to follow him. You had to be able to dance with him …
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phylicia is just the personification of class!! just pure and unadulterated class!
I Love her!!!!
“What time is it?” to a room full of network executives. That’s why this beautiful, intelligent woman is loved by the masses.
”we don’t know enough about ourselves and each other, otherwise we wouldn’t be making these ridiculous assertions” i coud not agree more
I like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Her laugh makes me laugh! It’s contagious <3
Interviewer: “What would the Huxtables be doing today, if they were still around?” Phylicia: “The Huxtables would be dancing.” ~ beautiful quote.
What an amazing lady she is!!!!!
Ms. Rasad is fantastic – regal and political. What a role model.
She embodies Clair to this day. haha. I love how prideful and true she seems. And she doesnt have to be, because of obvious reasons.
MARRY ME BABY, PLEASE MARRY ME…
I Love The Cosby Show ! They Should Do Another Reunion !
She has and is so blessed in her life.
shooooooooot i would call a doctor and a lawyer rich but i guess i dnt know much .
LOVE this!
oustanding!!! love clair…amazing
she’s wonderful!!!!!!!
@FRANKYCG She was always a lawyer….
on the pilot episode it seems to be that Clair Huxtable wasn’t a lawyer but a housekeeper. So changing her role to a lawyer it was outstanding!
very well said. love her!
wow nelson mandela.
i met phylicia for dinner two weeks ago and she was amazing
The Nelson Mandela story is moving.
Amazing!
llesh is such an klesh
Ilesh is such an ass