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| Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen |
As you may know by now, the acclaimed new, Golden Globe nominated film
Joy not only has an all-star cast led by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert DeNiro, but prominently features real-life Daytime stars (Maurice Bernard, Susan Lucci, Donna Mills, Laura Wright) in a fictional TV soap opera as part of the storyline. I interviewed the cast for my Australian morning program
Sunrise and was happy to find out how devoted some of them were to the real-life soap genre.
Award winning stars Diane Ladd (who once played Kitty Styles on classic soap opera
The Secret Storm) and Virginia Madsen play JLaw's grandmother and mother, respectively. And when I brought up the subject of soaps, I was surprised and delighted by their enthusiastic fandom. Here is your exclusive look at this conversation between two great ladies of the silver screen...and their connection to the small one!
