Cheryl McCollum
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, people that are younger than I am,
you know, vaguely remember it.
And, um, people that lived in long Island, remember it.
That's me.
I grew up about 30 minutes from where this happened.
And I was living in Manhattan at the time.
Um,
in, in college and auditioning.
And so I, this was like on every paper and, you know, my parents still lived on Long Island at the time.
So it was everywhere, the local, the national, it just was absolutely everywhere.
And so identifiable because the act, that accent, I grew up with that accent.
It's so specific, just kind of all of it.
Yes, it was challenging casting people who could... Who could do it, right?
Because it's not a New York accent.
It's a Long Island accent, right?
Yes, yes.
You really have to listen to it carefully.
Yeah.
But yes, that's kind of an unfair... That was almost like a character.
Long Island was almost like a character in the...