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[italic]During her long, illustrious career that’s spanned 40 years, several soaps, prime-time and film, Chapman has met some all-time greats and has an array of stories to tell. Her favorite centers on a commercial she made for Paul Masson champagne with Orson Welles.
“There were two principals, a young man and me, who got to stand next to Orson,” recounts Chapman. “The rest were just party people. Everybody was told to take a break and go out onto the lawn. We were shooting at this palatial home in Brentwood. We were told not to talk to Mr. Welles or get in his eyesight. Rules, rules, rules. The hair on the back of my neck was starting to bristle.”
Chapman decided not to follow the rules and sat at the end of a long sofa in the living room, flipping through a magazine. At the other end, Welles decided to take a seat and put his feet up on a footstool.
“All of a sudden, I heard this voice go, ‘It’s nice to be beautiful, isn’t it?’ ” recounts Chapman. “I ignored him. Ten seconds later, this booming voice said, ‘It’s nice to be beautiful, isn’t it?’ I looked up and said, ‘Yes, Mr. Welles, and it’s even nicer to be told.’ That was my cue. He was looking over at me, so I approached him.”
Welles took his feet off the footstool, and Chapman took a seat on it and introduced herself. When he asked how things were going in the business, she didn’t hesitate. “I was so young and green,” she laughs. “I started rambling, ‘Well, you know, it’s really hard sometimes to get an agent or an audition….’ He was staring at me. In the back of my head I thought, I’m talking to one of the greatest minds and artistic forces of the 20th century. He talked to me, and he shared. Then, he made some kind of subtle gesture, and I knew it was my cue to leave.”
Chapman admits her knees “were buckling” as she walked away. “I knew it was one of the high points of my life and it happened because I didn’t follow the rules. I didn’t go outside with everybody. I sat there and was summoned to the feet of the master.”
