Sarah Shahi

Yeah, no, it's very much like that.

It's very rigorous.

It's very competitive.

And yeah, it's challenging.

I have a lot of respect for those girls who go through it because you really have to do it out of love because you don't get paid anything.

Yeah.

You know, so no, I have a lot of respect for them and what they go through.

But you went through it.

You went through it.

Yeah, I went through it.

I made the team, and Robert Altman came to Texas to film a movie called Dr. T and the Women that Liv Tyler, Kate Hudson, Richard Gere, Farrah Fawcett, they were all on.

And in the movie, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler were cheerleaders.

So he used our rehearsal facilities, and we were all like background performers in the scenes where the girls were cheerleaders.

I don't know...

why this turned out the way it did, again, divine.

I didn't know who Robert Altman was, right?

Like, I was 19.

Like, I did not know about cinema the way I know about it now.

And so, but for whatever reason, he really took a big liking to me.

And he invited me.