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Stockard Channing Says She Was ‘Resented’ for the Success of Grease: ‘It Was Not Taken Seriously at All’

Stockard Channing opened up about how she was "resented" for the success of 'Grease' and continued to struggle to book movies for years after the film's release.

Channing, 80, opened up in a Jan. 23 interview with Britain’s The Times about the long legacy of Grease and her role as Betty Rizzo. Channing had been primarily a theater actress, and 1975’s The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, was meant to be her big break. In 1998, when Grease turned 20, Channing told PEOPLE, “I was at an audition recently and these little girls came rushing in — and they were like 5 — and yelled, ‘Where’s Rizzo?’ Not even their mothers were 5 when we did the movie!”

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