The director called a young Julia into his office to meet Richard.
According to the actor, “I said, ‘She’s adorable. She’s great.’ And while I’m talking to him, she takes a Post-It off of my desk and she writes on it something.”
“Then she moves it across the table to me and it says, ‘Please say yes.’ So how could you say no to that?”
Julia herself would go on to temporarily lose the role when Disney bought the original movie from its bankrupted first company.
She told Variety: “This small movie company folded over the weekend, and by Monday, I didn’t have a job.
“Garry Marshall came on, and because he’s a great human being, he felt it would only be fair to meet me, since I had this job for three days and lost it.”
