Does anyone know?
"FRA-GEE-LAY. That must be Italian!"
"I think that says 'fragile', honey."
She was asked quite a few times by Miss Stevens, but she declined to participate. I imagine she wasn't the only one (though that's nothing against Miss Stevens).
shareIf you see the documentary, you get a sense the mixed feelings and strong emotions the Annie experience brings up. After seeing it, it is really no surprise that McArdle and others choose not to be included.
Especially McArdle whose best known credit to this day by far (in a profession she has continued in) is for a production that she was in as a child.
I suspect that it was easier for the women who did not continue acting (or whose involvement in Annie was less well-known) to appear in this film.
Mcardle didn;t do the documentry because she felt it was a negative project. ther is article out their online were she states her feelings. would you like a link?
shareI know Im about six months late, but I'd like to see the link please. Would u show me it?
sharehttp://www.thecolumnists.com/nachman/nachman144.html
Here is the article I was refuring too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGgnKw5TKjc&feature=related
Hewre is a youtube enterview she did just last year ztating her disatisfaction with the documentry.
Frankly, McArdle doesn't come off very well in that article. (This is assuming she was attributed correctly--the writer isn't very good and the weird formatting is hurting my eyes!) The documentary isn't particularly negative but *she* is!
I knew what she was going to do--that it was going to be a bitch fest, about how ‘Annie’ wrecked their careers and now look at how bad off they all are. As if one show would owe anyone a career. It was so insane.
My thoughts exactly, I'm pretty disappointed in Andrea for being so petty. If she actually watched the thing she would realize that none of the ladies bashed the show because they all loved being in it. They were just trying to make sense of the crazy events that happened to them during and after their time in the spotlight. Their experiences took place in a time where adults didn't pay much attention to the psychology behind child stardom and many of the girls weren't fully prepared to deal with the "hard knocks" of that lifestyle.
I found the documentary to be very insightful and I think it's amazing that these women came forward and told their stories. Sometimes the best way to avoid going down a troubled road is hearing from someone who experienced it themselves. It's very important that actors and performers of any age know for sure what they are getting into and if they are able to handle the ups and downs that come with being famous.
Not only did she feel it was a bitch fest. If you watch the youtube interview she seems to feel that the creator of the documentry was trying to tell her story for her and she didn't like it. She did say in the video interview that she did not watch the documentry and that she was tryng to protect the girls from the orignal line up in some way from the project. There is no need to sugsr coat it buy saying she just turned the project down, There are reasons she did and I posted links as to her reasons why from her own mouth. Andrea does not view this progect in favorable light weather anyone likes it or not, period.
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