Betty Buckley
American actress and singerWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
BillHOST
Married to him, yeah
JessHOST
... from '79 to '83, who was in Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, um, notes that during the filming of Carrie he demanded over 30 takes of the scene where she gets slapped by Betty Buckley.
BillHOST
Jesus Christ.
JessHOST
And he made Betty Buckley make contact every time.
BillHOST
Oh, that's-
JessHOST
So, like, this man is-
Catherine PorterGUEST
I would audition for Cats for Grizabella when I was 20 years old, and I would...
Catherine PorterGUEST
I didn't really know my voice yet, so I would tap into Betty Buckley's, and I could imitate her.
Catherine PorterGUEST
So there was an element of, "I'm gonna sound like that because we know that works on that." But then getting older and learning, finding my own voice through that, it's really connecting to the story that matters the most for me, and then singing pretty [laughs] on it.
Pat HazellHOST
Yeah.
Coco PeruGUEST
I went down to demand my pay because they were supposed to pay me weekly.
Coco PeruGUEST
I guess Betty Buckley had also pissed them off.
Coco PeruGUEST
And on their poster board, you know, where you can erase it, they had written, Betty Buckley will not be performing here such and such day through such and such day.
Coco PeruGUEST
And then under it, they had scrawled, or ever.
Coco PeruGUEST
I felt like Betty Buckley was there going, Coco, I understand.
Coco PeruGUEST
One for me, one for Betty Buckley.
Coco PeruGUEST
Four, five.
AlaskaHOST
Oh, okay.
Keala SettleGUEST
Well, to be fair, it's been around for a while, and it's been played by a lot of very high-profile people within the industry.
Keala SettleGUEST
You know, you hear about Glenn Close, you hear about Betty Buckley, you hear about Patti LuPone, and, of course, as of late, Nicole Scherzinger, who is, you know, also a Pacific Islander from Hawaii, and so...
Keala SettleGUEST
And...
Keala SettleGUEST
It was also a different take on it and what which theatre is doing, which is this is their 10th year.
Keala SettleGUEST
Well, to be fair, it's it's been around for a while and it's been played by a lot of very high profile people within the industry.
Keala SettleGUEST
You know, you hear about Glenn Close, you hear about Betty Buckley, you hear about Patti LuPone.
Keala SettleGUEST
And of course, as of late, Nicole Scherzinger, who is also a Pacific Islander from Hawaii.
Keala SettleGUEST
And so and so.
Tony SheldonGUEST
And I have an audio tape.
Tony SheldonGUEST
of them doing it and it's so wonderful they sang the pants off it mum did the Cleo Lane part and Helen sang the Betty Buckley role it's an eternal regret that I never got to see them both together in that fabulous piece and I always hoped I'd get to play the chairman in it then it would have been you know the three of us all got a crack at it but yeah Yeah, that I would have loved to have seen.
Caroline SheenHOST
Oh, wow.
Caroline SheenHOST
That's incredible.
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And I'm
Douglas VivianiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
thinking to myself, wait, this is Betty Buckley.
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I'm
Douglas VivianiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
looking it up.
Bill AllredHOST
That's Scott Wilson.
Bill AllredHOST
Number three is Betty Buckley.
Bill AllredHOST
She won a Tony Award for the original production of Cats.
Bill AllredHOST
She was nominated for the Tony several other times.
Bill AllredHOST
She was in the film Carrie, and she had a regular role on TV in Eight is Enough.
Bill AllredHOST
She was in the War of Japan miniseries The Pacific.
Bill AllredHOST
That's Betty Buckley, number three.
Bill AllredHOST
And finally on the list is Tom Courtney.
Naya NightmareHOST
And she's like, she literally says to them, won't you look ridiculous walking in with Carrie White? Which is like, why would you say that when aren't you supposed to be like against
Ren's DadHOST
the bullying? It's like she's trying to, it's like on one hand, it's Betty Buckley who plays Miss Collins.
Ren's DadHOST
She's like trying to protect Carrie, but also doing it in this backhanded way.
Naya NightmareHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Edward PerottiHOST
And I snapped this picture.
Edward PerottiHOST
I sent it to Betty Buckley as a joke saying, she's channeling your Norma Desmond.
Edward PerottiHOST
Because it was just this perfectly posed thing.
Edward PerottiHOST
Oh, I have to do it.
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