Cheryl Hines: Stories From “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Sticking by RFK on His Way to the White House
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Cheryl Hines, thank you for coming all the way out here. You, we were talking at breakfast, your life, the trajectory is like pretty amazing. You are very far from where you started.
That is true.
Where did you start?
I started in Florida, in Orlando, Florida. You know, I grew up in Orlando and Tallahassee. And then one day I drove my Toyota Tercel across the country to Los Angeles.
By yourself?
No, I was dating a guy. And I said, you know, I'm moving to LA. And when it came time to move, he was very sad. And he said, can I ride with you? And I said, please don't. And he said, no, please, please. I just want to get out of, I want to see the country. I've never seen the country. And so we broke up and then we drove across the country together. Well, that's awkward. It was very awkward.
Why did you move to LA?
Why did I move to LA?
Yeah.
Because I knew I was going to move to, because I always wanted to be an actress. And I knew I was going to be New York or LA, but I knew two people in LA. One guy from my high school and another guy who was a family friend, one of my brother's best friends. So I knew two people. So I thought, okay, then that makes more sense, LA.
Were they like at CIA? Were they like powerful agents, those two people?
No. No, no, not at all. Well, actually, so one of my best friends, Paul Beckett, we went to high school together and he moved out there and he was a professional background actor.
What's a background actor?
Like an extra.
Is that what they call them? Background actors? Yes. Yes. What is that life like?
He loved it because it was, you know, day to day. You get a project. You don't have to prepare much.
You just show up. Lines to memorize.
No lines to memorize. You know what the hardest thing about doing background work? Have you ever done background work?
No, I've been in the background in a lot of events, but I've never been paid for it.
It's harder than it seems because... You know, if they're shooting a party scene and your background, you have to stand behind the main actors and act like you're talking. But you can never say anything.
So it's a lot of... Or you can't actually speak out loud.
No, you can't speak out loud. But you just, you act like you're talking and you make eye contact with the person that you're talking to. And then you take turns mouthing words, but try not to look crazy doing it.
That sounds really hard, actually.
It's hard. I found it to be hard.
Oh, you did it?
Oh, yeah, because you have to do it as an actor, too. Because sometimes, you know, you're shooting something in somebody else's coverage. And so they ask you not to actually say words out loud while they're doing their dialogue. It's even like clapping. Usually when you see people clapping, they're not actually making noise.
Seriously?
They put that in later, yeah.
Do they have like hand muffs to keep it from?
No, you're just a professional and you know not to.
Not to touch.
Not to touch.
So how did you go? So you show up not knowing anybody except one extra. I went to your high school and then you wind up succeeding. How hard is that?
It was hard. Yeah. It was hard. I, you know, I got a bartending job, which actually was also hard because
Yeah, it's a hard job.
It's a hard job. And in LA, it was hard to get a job as a bartender or as a waitress because everybody's doing that because everybody is trying to get a job as an actor or writer. So even to get those jobs are hard in LA. But I managed to get a job in this hotel in downtown LA. It was the Intercontinental. I think they've changed it since then, but So that was good. I did that. And then it just, it took a year for me to work in that hotel and that bar to just sort of get used to LA. And at that time you would send out your headshot and resume to all of the agents in town and hope that somebody would be interested in, just from looking at your picture, be interested in meeting with you. And I didn't do it.
I wasn't ready for the rejection because I thought, what if I send out a picture and resume to every agent in this town and none of them want me?
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